9 Watch the film clip and fill in the script with the expressions given below.
came on the market • conventional • genetically • Illinois • intellectual property • Microsoft • plant breeding • public • public institutions • seeds • seed moves in • varieties
When Monsanto soybeans first 1. ............................................, I just really never switched over. I was getting pretty good yield with the 2. ............................................ soybeans I’d been using, so I thought, well, I’ll just stay where I’m at. My neighbours all around me are all GMOs. If the pollen blows in, if the 3. ............................................, I am still held accountable. When you 4. ............................................ modify a crop, you own it. We’ve never had this in agriculture. It used to be that your land-granted universities, they developed what was called 5. ............................................ seed. The vast majority of the plant breeding was actually done in these 6. ............................................. Monsanto’s very much like 7. ............................................. The same way Microsoft owns the 8. ............................................ behind most computers in America, they set out to own the intellectual property behind most of the food in America. Public 9. ............................................ is a thing of the past. There virtually actually are no public 10. ............................................ anymore. There’s only like 4 or 5 11. ............................................ that I can actually plant. Now I have some of the last soybeans coming out of the state of 12. .............................................