Monsanto's Influence on University Research - and the Consequences

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I know it's such SOP now that it's probably way too far gone to ever change, but there's something that doesn't sit well w/ me when our public universities are co-opted by tthe weapon's industry and the industrial -ag interests and everybody on the planet but the public interest.
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Monsanto's Influence on University Research - and the Consequences

* By Ken Roseboro, ed.
The Organic and Non-GMO Report, July/Aug 2007

University research money goes to GMOs, not organics

Land-grant universities such as Kansas State are receiving increased funding for research on genetically modified crops while few research dollars go to organic and sustainable farming methods.

Small-scale and organic farmers in Kansas say Kansas State University does little to help them meet the booming consumer demand for their products.

"The amount of money going into sustainable or organic agriculture is miniscule compared to what's going into, say, genetic engineering," says Rhonda Janke, a sustainable agriculture professor at KState.

Chuck Hassebrook, executive director at the national Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Neb., says K-State and other land grant universities are too influenced by corporate funding. "What we need from our land grant universities is leadership, what we get is 'Oh, we can only do what the funders are willing to fund,'" he says.
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complete article here

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1. Well, duh.

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2. That's because organic and sustainable farming methods are for hippies and tree-huggers.

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3. Flying spaghetti Monster bless them every one

I dunno, I guess sometimes i'm just too much of an idealist - not wanting my tax dollars and the brain power of of the nation's youth used to pad the bottom line of corporations that don't give a goddamn about whether they're destroying lives or the planet as long as it makes a dollar.