Monsanto's Argumentative Analysis

In the article by Monsanto, they make a lot of claims of reasons as to why they enforce contracts in such an extreme way. The article by Barlett and Steele that the Monsanto Corporation is seen in a negative light, but in the contrary of though and reason Monsanto says otherwise has also showed it. Monsanto’s claim is it should keep enforcing the contract of its patented seeds. Their first reason for backing this claim is that there has been a small percentage of farmers do not honor the contract agreement on seeds and by their actions they are sued. Monsanto’s backing for this is that since 1997 there have been 144 lawsuits filed, and from then on, there have been about 11 lawsuits per year that in the grand number of their clientele of about 4.6 million (source of total clientele since 1997 per year found on Monsanto’s website) or about 250,000 per year since 1997. Monsanto shows that the number of farmers they sue in America for violation of contact is just a small percentage from their overall number of clients. I feel that this is a good reason of justification on their part giving solid statistics to back their reason. Also as a side not from the lawsuits Monsanto wins it donates the proceeds to scholarship programs and youth leadership initiatives. …show more content…
The backing of this reason is by trying to understand that there are around 250,000 seeds sold to farmers and small businesses per year. In cases like Bill Rinehart vs. Monsanto, Monsanto had accused Bill Rinehart of violating the contract, but he was not a seed seller or even a farmer then the case was soon acquitted and then moved to his brother’s son Tim Rinehart who had violated the contract. This argument on Monsanto’s part is good but it does fall in fault number 6- appeal to authority for it has focused this case as a way to back up its reason for advocating the law in all its