This is a YouTube video titled "Bayer/Monsanto's Roundup Ready Corn" containing a conversation recorded on July 30, 2020, discussing Monsanto's genetically modified corn, its patented seeds, and related legal issues faced by farmers. The dialogue includes multiple speakers, notably Ask AI Mark, who engages in the discussion about the implications of seed drift and lawsuits.
And virtually all corn grown today is, you know, 95, 98% of it is Roundup Ready corn. It's Roundup, it's Monsanto's corn.
Yeah. They sell the seeds and they sell the herbicides. It's a closed circuit.
It's a closed circuit. And they also implant in the, see, they've done other genetic manipulations that allow, that creates a plant that reflects sunlight. Certain spectrums of light, you can actually fly a plane over the cornfields with a special camera, which is what Monsanto does. They can photograph and they can know from the air which are round up, which are round up Ready corn and which corn is natural corn. And they have a list of all the people who have paid for their corn. If you're a farmer and you happen to have their crop on your property, and you haven't paid for it, then they sue you. That's one of the things that makes them very notorious. Those lawsuits against individual farmers, a lot of times they've got Roundup corn on their property because of drift, because the corn drifted onto their property, but it's not what they bought.
Wait, wait, just to recap that, that's important. So basically what happens, because of wind, there's a farmer who has regular natural corn and a farmer who has Roundup Ready corn, and it drifts over to their farm and it starts growing, and then Monsanto sues them because they're growing their seeds.
Their seeds have become pollinated. They're patented seeds.
