monsanto pt 3: buying seed companies (the end trail of a rant)

corporate control of seeds.
I find it intimidating... My bias is strong against the company, but I don't like their vision, and I certainly don't want it to become a reality.
Monsanto owns about 90% of all GM crops grown on the world, is a world leader in biotechnology, and is buying out seed companies across the globe. They are producing "Terminator" (suicide) seeds, from which the seeds will not reproduce-meaning a farmer wishing to reproduce these crops must buy Monsanto's seeds year after year. This company is quite interwoven with the FDA, with workers moving to-and-from the company and government agency (such as Michael Taylor, who moved to the FDA in 1991- who's previous law clients were Monsanto and the International Food Biotechnology Council- and founded a policy on GM regulation). And this is also the cooperation which has been charged with false advertising multiple times and data suppression (e.g. false claims of Round-up being biodegradable in New York [1996] and France, just a few years ago. In fact, tests done by Monsanto showed that only 2% of the herbicide had degraded in 28 days... not to mention iffy testing on the long-term effects of its products). GMO's are not labeled, in the US; the FDA considers a GMO to be substancially equivalent as conventional crops, and are "generallly recognized as safe", including rBGH (banned in Europe and Canada).

I could go on for quite a while on this... GMO Crops do not have to be "bad"! But I dont want anything to do with this company, and the two are unexplicably entertwined. GMO Crops and non-GMO crops have not been proven to be "identical", and I do not like Monsanto's secrecy regarding research on the effects/differences between the two.