On: Corn Wars

[AnimalMuppet]

It is very much unclear to me that you have any valid basis for assuming that.

[stephengillie → AnimalMuppet]

Do you believe the companies have never negotiated? It's a rather hostile way of interacting, but not unheard of.

It's "conducting business" in the same way as way a parasite is a type of symbiote.

[AnimalMuppet → stephengillie]

No, I'm skeptical that China approached them. (They could have, and been rejected, but from the article, it didn't seem like China was operating that way.)