{"id":4768,"date":"2010-03-12T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:01:02","slug":"agriculture-antitrust-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/12\/agriculture-antitrust-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture antitrust concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4769\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/corn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"corn\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>The Justice and Agriculture Departments are launching a series of year-long <a title=\"public meetings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-food-monopoly12-2010mar12,0,6585894.story?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings <\/a>to explore if antitrust practices in the agriculture industry are driving up food prices &#8212; with the big target being Monsanto, the world&#8217;s largest seed firm.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an authority on antitrust law, says the productivity of Monsanto&#8217;s genetically engineered seeds must be considered.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Conventional seeds may have all but disappeared. Because they are so much less productive than the genetically engineered variety, few large-scale farm operations have an interest in them now.\u00a0 This is a question for the regulators to consider.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice and Agriculture Departments are launching a series of year-long public meetings to explore if antitrust practices in the agriculture industry are driving up food prices &#8212; with the big target being Monsanto, the world&#8217;s largest seed firm.\u00a0 Law Professor Keith Hylton, an authority on antitrust law, says the productivity of Monsanto&#8217;s genetically engineered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2469,1177,2468,2467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}