Summary of Monsanto’s Harvest of fear by Barlett and Steele
The summer day in 2002 at the town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City. Gary Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his "old-time country store," as he states. When a stranger walked in and issued his threat. As Rinehart would recall, the man began to verbally attack him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto's genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company's patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, the man told Rinehart to settle or face the lawsuits that would soon come. Monsanto is a corporation that has over 674 biotechnology patents since the 1980’s, this according to
The summer day in 2002 at the town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City. Gary Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his "old-time country store," as he states. When a stranger walked in and issued his threat. As Rinehart would recall, the man began to verbally attack him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto's genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company's patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, the man told Rinehart to settle or face the lawsuits that would soon come. Monsanto is a corporation that has over 674 biotechnology patents since the 1980’s, this according to