after thinking about Monsanto's patent loss news for a while I made the following post on my blog www.chycho.com/

chycho ...



I’ve been considering the implications of the recent lose of four key patents by Monsanto, and I have only been able to come up with one unequivocal conclusion: This is a disaster.

What if Monsanto was protecting us from their creation? What if they know something that we don’t?

Farmers will now be able to save seeds in surplus and sell them to their neighbors or anyone else in the world thanks to the Internet. They will be able to do this at a fraction of the cost of Monsanto, creating a huge demand for these Genetically Modified Organisms. This means that Genetically Engineered Crops will now be grown around the world decades earlier then what was predicted by its creators.

The damage done to the environment from these organisms can no longer be contained, on the contrary it will be accelerated beyond our worst scientific predictions. If the disappearance of the bees, dubbed "Colony Collapse Disorder", is any indication, we are about to change the whole ecosystem.

There is no way to prevent farmers from selling contaminated seeds, and it is very unlikely that Monsanto will open their data basis and release any results from their own scientific experiments that refute the safety of Genetically Modified Foods.

Unfortunately, it appears that we just jumped from the frying pan into a blazing inferno.