Monsanto Merger Sows Fears Over Skewed Seed Market
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022707P.shtml
A pending merger in the cotton-seed industry is prompting sharp legal and environmental criticisms of biotechnology in US agriculture. The proposed merger would fuse the world's largest seed company, Monsanto, with one of the country's leading cotton-seed firms, Delta and Pine Land.
Consumer watchdogs tracking biotechnology's impacts want the federal government to intervene, arguing that the merger would come at the expense of agricultural diversity and of the environment.
2/28/2007
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