the fabric of our lies

[William S. Lear]

On Thu, August 13, 1998 at 11:32:52 (-0500) J Cullen writes:
>>Anybody care -- or notice -- that Monsanto now controls 85 percent of the
>>nation's cotton seed market, and that's it's introduced a terminator gene that
>>requires cotton growers to buy new seed year after year?
>
>The Progressive Populist in July had a cover story on "The Seed Patenters:
>Biotech Giants Force Farmers into Lockstep," along with a sidebar on
>biotechnology, which you can find on our website at
>http://www.eden.com/~reporter/98.7.html. If you'd like me to send you a
>copy, let me know by private post.

Richard Lewontin just had a piece in Monthly Review on this
topic.  Quite good, as I recall.

Bill