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SPRINGFIELD, ILWreaking untold environmental and economic devastation throughout the region, a strain of harvest-resistant corn engineered by the agrochemical company Monsanto is now engulfing most of the Midwest, officials confirmed Monday.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the genetically modified crop, which Monsanto originally enhanced with traits to provide resistance from pests, diseases, and environmental conditions such as drought and frost, has become completely impervious to industrial reaping machinery and has spread uncontrollably across 700,000 square miles of land. With the unharvestable corn growing through asphalt roadways and airport tarmacs all over the Midwest, FEMA has been leading efforts to evacuate millions of residents before the plants obstruct all travel in the central United States.
This particular strain of Monsanto corn is advancing at an alarming rate, and all efforts to contain the aggressive infestation have thus far been unsuccessful, said Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden, who confirmed that the bioengineered crop thrives even in inhospitable environments and threatens entire ecosystems through rapid colonization and domination of native vegetation. At this rate, we are facing a catastrophic level of growth. The corn has spread quickly from farms, overwhelming small towns and suburban neighborhoods, and is now starting to encroach upon highly populated cities.
At press time, the Monsanto Company had announced plans to bring legal action against the 65 million people of the Midwest for growing patented genetic material without paying the companys seed premium.
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postulater
(5,075 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)about this possibly happening in our Bio Chem Lab 50 years ago. Scary shit and the real issue is the new chemical resistant weeds that have evolved. Suckers have stalks like trees.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I have driven through these very corn fields many a time in my life.
How will I ever get to visit my sister now!
Thanks, Monstinko!!!(and the Onion, whose home city is where I get to on the other side of all those corn fields!)
Wella
(1,827 posts)I gather that's happening in India as well.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but this article is satire. I know, it is getting harder to tell these days
Wella
(1,827 posts)Well, you got me.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)of making things almost believable.
Wella
(1,827 posts)But they always start from a core of truth. Maybe that's why they're so good.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)has a big element of truth in it.
Wella
(1,827 posts)If you're Colbert. I'm going to miss him on CC but the Letterman gig is an amazing coup for him.