Movie about the sugar beet issue, questions to accompany article or essay

Movie re: sugar beets in case you were absent:

http://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/06/Oregon_dispute_over_sugar_beets/

Questions:

Questions to accompany sugar beets article:

1.What company is putting forth the RoundUp Ready Seeds.?


2.Why would banning Round Up Ready sugar beet seeds be a loss to Oregon?


3.Why would banning RoundUp Ready surgar beets be a hardship for farmers?

4.Where does most sugar beet crop come from?

5.When was the sugar beet crop planted?

6.When will it be ready?

7.How would you respond to this court ruling if you were a Monsanto executive?


8.How would you respond to this court ruling if you were a small organic grower in Oregon?

9.If you chose this for your project, and decided to do a debate, what do you think are the three points that you might choose as pro or con. Make a t-chart with pro and con.

10.If you were to choose to write a persuasive essay what side of the debate would you choose and why?