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RE: How Libertarians Can End Monsanto's Monopoly! (With Joel Salatin)
monsanto does NOT have a monopoly
(words mean things)
monsanto has a LARGE market share.
but there are other seed producers..
monsanto does NOT have a monopoly
(words mean things)
monsanto has a LARGE market share.
but there are other seed producers..
A non-Monsanto farm next to a farm using Monsanto seeds ends up owing Monsanto a lot of money due to the wind. If that's not a monopoly, I don't know what is! Look into India's farming industry, there's a lot of examples @everittdmickey
that's true you don't know what a monopoly is.
is that true about the farmer?
or did you hear it on CNN?
That's rich coming from somebody who spreads Trump propaganda on steroids and get's most of his information from InfoWars :)
Like I previously mentioned look it up (but that would mean you having to get out of Alex's echo chamber for a bit)
I support Trump...I like what I've seen him do.
Did you want the alternative?
(gasp)
are you deranged?
You made the claim...you support it.
unless you are fantasizing.
Sad that grown adults have yet to figure out the game is rigged!
Are you still in denial of Trump's mass expansion of military spending @everittdmickey? Or are you still "fantasizing"
expansion of military spending is a GOOD thing.
I was in the USAF during CARTER.
the horror..the horror.
another thing Trump has done RIGHT.
I fully support your right to think spending half of the State's tax revenue on military is good @everittdmickey (even if it already spends more then the next 9 highest Nations combined).
It is well in your rights to be a warmonger and cheer for a NEOCON but what is most comical is how Trump wants to censor the internet, plus get rid of internet privacy, while presenting a tax plan that gives the wealthiest the biggest breaks, on top of all the Goldman Sachs appointees he has!
It's your right to cheer for the 0.1% but I got to ask, who do you think profits from U.S. military actions? Because it isn't the common man!
how's your life style compared to 'the normal man' fifty years ago?...a hundred...a thousand?
Agreed, but Monsanto has dominance perpetrated by the state in the first place. This can be easily construed and rightly so as a monopoly considering their patent rights over seeds and the incentive farmers have to use their seeds, pesticides and herbicides.
Other companies may produce seeds, but compared to those companies, Monsanto is about 50 thousand times bigger than their second place competitor. This is a big deal and would not exist if the regulations, taxes and subsidization wasn't in place. That's the point being made.
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Major competitors for Monsanto Company in the seeds and genomics space include multinational American giant Dow Chemical Company (DOW) Market Cap 77.48B , agricultural genomics firm Evogene Ltd., and seed and chemical supplier Syngenta (SYT) ****Market Cap, 41B***., based in Switzerland.
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Major competitors for Monsanto in the agricultural productivity division include retail fertilizer and agricultural product supplier Agrium (AGU) Market Cap, 12.32B., insecticide and herbicide producer American Vanguard (AVD); fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings (CF); nitrogen fertilizer producer CVR Partners (UAN), fertilizer and agricultural product producer Chinese Green Agriculture, fertilizer and chemical product producer Israel Chemicals; bio-based pest management product producer Marrone Bio Innovations; phosphate and potash miner The Mosaic Company; potash miner Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan; nitrogen fertilizer producer Rentech Nitrogen Partners; genomic company and herbicide producer Syngenta; nitrogen producer Terra Nitrogen Company; Eastman Chemical; Dow Chemical; FMC Corporation; and Honeywell International.
note: 77.48 Billion is larger than 50 Billion
math is hard.
not only is Monsanto NOT a monopoly it does not even have the major market share...it has a number of very strong competitors..
You're considering other subsidized industries as "competition" which is where I differ.
of course you do.
I'm using the standardized meaning of the word.
you apparently have your very OWN definition..
how cute.
Legislation is paid for every day that tightens the noose on competitors.
yup..ve haff ze best gubement money can buy.
government is insane