Barbelith Underground > Laboratory > Piracy extends to GM cotton seeds in India...or does it?

Arr! In anticipation of this Friday's International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I was intrigued by yesterday's BBCWorld broadcast report of Gujarati cotton farmers growing hybrids bred from pirated Monsanto GM (bollweevil-resistant) cotton seeds *and the hybrids are superior!* A Google search shows that a) this could be Monsanto black propaganda because their seeds are crap and b) BBC's broadcast comes from a story exactly 3 months old!

But I was sorta hoping this would happen. This story, however stale, is brought to you by Sesame Street and the letters "RRR" and "III!"