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On Tuesday this week, Dave Drum wrote that:

   Just heard on NPR's "Morning Edition" that
   Monsanto has decided not to market their GM
   Terminator seed technology. That's what they
   announced- - the reason given being "too much
   opposition".

   What it means to me, cynic that I am, is that
   they will find a back-door scheme to make
   money with the death seeds. They are, after
   all, a money machine corporation.

He is spot on correct. Monsanto is not a Mom and Pop operation. According to
Yahoo, among the companies listed as subsidiaries are Ortho, Dekalb,
NutraSweet Kelco, and Searle. Which of these would make a suitable partner
for transfering the death seed research group? The Monsanto label doesn't
appear on products of any of these companies (as far as I'm aware anyway).
What other company could be quitely set up? Monsanto also appears to have
subsidiaries in Brazil. Transfering some operations there would be one way
of making the streets of St. Louis quieter. Which of course would bring us
to the points that Scott....KCK and Diane in Flanders were making about the
developing world.

Just as importantly, we have to remember that as big as Monsanto is, it is
not the only game in town. Just because one company says its giving up the
game doesn't mean other companies in the same arena will as well.

For the interested, the background to much of this can be found at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_465000/465222.stm

As a finishing side note, I was pleased to see that Monsato announcement the
same the Japanese government announced they were yanking JCO's Tokaimura
office's license.

David Yoshiba

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