From: Brian Manning Delaney (bdelaney@infinitefaculty.org)
Date: Sat Sep 18 1999 - 12:10:25 MDT
Chris Fedeli wrote:
> GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
>> [It's getting worse. -- GB]
>
> ...and worse:
>
> Financial Times 13 Sept 99
> GM foods groups face huge lawsuit
> By Jean Eaglesham, Legal Correspondent
>
> The world's biggest life science companies
> and grain processors will face a multi-billion
> dollar antitrust action to be launched in up
> to 30 countries later this year.
>
> The unprecedented lawsuits will claim that
> companies such as Monsanto, DuPont and
> Novartis are exploiting bioengineering techniques
> to gain a stranglehold on agricultural markets.
[....]
Hi Chris. How is this "worse," as opposed to an entirely
separate issue: potentially illegal (or deleterious) monopoly
control?
Anything associated with Rifkin is likely to be bad, to be sure,
and _his_ interest in this suit isn't centered on monopoly
control.
Is it, then, that we should put up with monopolies in order to
advance high tech?
Brian.
-- Brian Manning Delaney <b-delaney@uchicago.edu> (No need to CC replies to me.)
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