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stevenstremciucon The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice

Can you please go into further detail and provide evidence (preferably not an emotionally written wordpress blog post) for your claim regarding the wind-born (blown) cross pollination resulting in patent fees? This is something I have heard again and again but googling for "Monsanto wind blown seeds" [1] seems to return a fair amount of articles/research not supporting your statement.

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=monsanto%20wind%20blown%20se...

stevenstremciucon U.S. airlines have shifted maintenance work to developing countries

I can't speak for every one of the facilities mentioned in the article, but for one of the airlines mentioned that has work done in the Aeroman facility in El Salvador, the airline staffs American F.A.A. certified mechanics with decades of experience to oversee the operations performed at the facility.

stevenstremciucon U.S. airlines have shifted maintenance work to developing countries

Xenophobic was the exact word that came to mind. I have a close personal relative who spent several years working for one of the airlines mentioned in the article at the Aeroman facility in El Salvador and pictured in that article. I've visited it myself several times. He has also worked at maintenance facilities in the U.S. The article reads xenophobic/sensationalistic.

What is so scary about planes being serviced/maintained at these locations as opposed to in the U.S.? Do they have factual data comparisons of maintenance issues at these sites including maintenance facilities in the U.S.? Or do we just assume that they're inferior and if the maintenance facility is in the U.S. there MUST be less of the issues described in the article and attributed to these remote facilities.

Is the article about the F.A.A. sucking at inspecting sites, and is that the fault of the airlines? Aeroman and other MRO's will all bend over backwards to keep airlines (and their regulators if required) happy with the work being done at their facilities, as it's great money and jobs for those areas. Maybe the article should be less scaremongering and more questioning about why the F.A.A. seems to suck so bad at their jobs (at least that's what I got out of the article, that's not my opinion at all).