Quote delster: Recently the Dahli Lama during a lecture in Portland Oregon announced that our concern should be for the good of all society instead of for profit.

Yes, my friend, who can argue with the Dalai Lama. The good of all indeed should be all of our goals; and, nothing else.

My, brother, I pray you enjoy greater success with your fitness regimen. Good health and happiness, always!!

I have discovered I have stage two kidney disease. My kidneys do not have the ability to deal with the kind of nutritian widely available today from restaurants. and grocery stores. I discovered this through exercise as a result of my inability to sustain a level of performance even though I've been exercising for over 30 years. My blood lacks enough red blood cells to deliver enough oxygen to my muscles. I complained to my DR. who ran blood tests which revealed my problem. It is like the inverse of blood doping for an athlete. I restricts my performance and makes it near impossilbe for me to lose weight.

This is a result of processed food and genetically altered food which my kidneys cannot deal with. I now have to restrict animal protien from my diet becuase of the way animals are fed, I cannot drink any soda because of HFCS, and I'm pretty much a vergitarian. The vegies I consume have to be organically grown. As a result of diet I now have increased endurance for aerobic exercise for longer durations and my red blood cell count is normal. The diet is not easy to maintain and grocery shopping is more time consuming. Pretty cool Huh ! All as a result of PIG corporations who put profit above human concern. Recently the Dahli Lama during a lecture in Portland Oregon announced that our concern should be for the good of all society instead of for profit. I remember that being the basis for the consitution unless the constitution has changed.

Currently we are havng a ballot for flouridating the water in Portland Oregon when most tooth decay is a result bad nutrition. And why would a dentist support such a ballot measure ? The deck of justice is definitely stacked against us. Justice in the US is biased toward the top 1% of anyone in the world. The bottom line for most US citizens is to watch what you eat and who's preparing it for you and who is growing and processing the food.

Tea Party Christians!!!Now that's an oxymoron if I have ever heard one. And for them to "think"...You must be joking!!!

Here's the real reason that Monsanto want to keep its patent--and why it's a bad idea:

I'm quoting from another source:

What makes Monsanto different is its US seed monopoly. Well documented by market authorities, Plaintiffs point out that, “Over 85-90% of all soybeans, corn, cotton, sugar beets and canola grown in the U.S. contains Monsanto’s patented genes.”

Through its monopoly, Monsanto has spiked the cost of seeds. In the past decade, corn seed prices increased 135% and soybean prices 108%, the suit asserts. As recently as 1997, soybean farmers spent only 4-8% of their income on seeds, “while in 2009, farmers who planted transgenic soybeans spent 16.4 percent of their income on seeds.”

If SCOTUS eats crow, is it singular for Scrotum or is it an adjective meaning "as if one were going to eat crow" ?

There should be a proviso in the patent language that genetically modified products must not combine with non-modified organisms if the modifications will carry over into progeny. If these modified attributes become part of the pool of wild genes, as witnessed in samplings, then there should be no protection under the law for said progeny. Fairness is central to law.

This all gives new meaning to "Food Court."

I'm crushed and outraged to learn of this SCOTUS decision...but, not surprised. After all, the SCOTUS also gave us the first (s)elected President in our history, (with devastating worldwide consequences that are ongoing), the heinous Citizen's United decision, and now, this frightening decision that further erodes our future health and wellbeing as a Nation.

I'm so disappointed in mainstream media for failing to make this issue more widely known and understood by the public, particularly since it has such huge repercussions upon our very food supply.

We must push for full disclosure in labeling to identify which foods have gmo's in them so that we can make informed choices in our purchases for consumption.

Thanks, Thom, for reporting this unfortunate and irresponsible decision by the SCOTUS.

Maybe we need to consider "open source seedware". Surely there are enough expired hybrid seeds to feed most of us.

Best to you Tom. Listen almost every day.

Label GMO's or better yet, it they are GMO free, then label that. If that's how they want to play the game. Buy local and organic that's the best way to confront these bastards. And also who needs corn and soy. There are better alternatives and that are healtier.

sorry mark s did you repley i didn't see it. do you mean Fridays?

A unanimous decision, there must be something more to this. Some of those justices, no doubt, didn't like making that decision but felt bound by law to make it. In fact, in this case they cited the intent of Congress as their basis for deciding, "constitutionality" seemed to have nothing to do with this one so SCOTUS was acting just as Thom would have it.

The law needs to be changed and at least some of those justices will act accordingly.

NAFTA destroyed the Mexican economy. It caused millions of peasant farmers to lose their land and move north looking for jobs. The Mexican factory workers, meanwhile, got organized, won better pay and working conditions; the Mexican public mobilized, won some environmental protections. The American multinationals then moved their factories out of Mexico and into China thinking the police state there would prevent the same from happening (funny how the ideal society of the "freedom loving" Republicans is the police state of China).

Big business is often against enforcement of immigration law. They always wanted the undocumented as scabs and it divides the workers of the U.S.. The plight of the undocumented is a human rights issue, a refugee problem. Labor has to get global as business does. Thinking within national borders isolationistically is obsolete and the current immigration policy is also obsolete and serves to divide the workers of the U.S., documented vs. undocumented.

Big business commonly doesn't want enforcement of immigration law disrupting their functioning (some do and call ICE every payday and so avoid paying their people) but also don't want immigration reform because if the undocumented became legalized they could organize more freely, without fear, and wouldn't have to accept abuse like that of those other businesses which is common for the undocumented and couldn't be used as scabs like they are and couldn't divide the workforce like they are. It would take away the attraction and the preference of hiring the undocumented over the documented or U.S. born and give the undocumented their basic rights.

Essentially our free trade agreements give freedom of mobility for business but not for labor unlike, for example, the European Union where both capital and labor can travel freely through the free trade zone.