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Few companies excite such extreme emotions as Monsanto. To its critics, the agricultural giant is a corporate hybrid of Victor Frankenstein and Ebenezer Scrooge, using science to create foods that threaten the health of both people and the planet, and intellectual-property laws to squeeze every last penny out of the world’s poor.
In fact, everyone should watch “The world According to Monsanto” for the real scoop. Produced by a French investigative reporter, it’s a fact based study of these very issues. I must say that after watching Food, Inc. or the afforementioned, any layperson would change their shopping habits and hopefully their voting habits as well.
The other side of this is that with these “frankenfoods” we can feed the starving of the world, but, as one of the scientists involved in studies at FDA regarding GMO’s stated that these GMO foods would likely cause cancer, but we wouldn’t see it for 30 or 40 yrs. So I guess the theory is to feed the starving so they can die of cancer later?
Here’s the news….THERE ARE OTHER WAYS!!!!
Has anyone heard of aquaponics? I can show anyone how to grow bueberries or broccoli or nealy anything else in the deserts of Africa in a self-sustained, self-fertilized small hydroponic system powered by renewable resources that by the way throws off 6,000Kg every 8weeks of fresh fish. And if I can figure that out, just an everyday engineer, imagine what Monsanto could come up with if they had a reason to think safety and Green? So someone please explain to me why we need these GMO’s and their as yet unknown long term effects on us and our world?
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TedM, I do part company with those who would approach food as if it were merely units and that all food is the same. I also part company with those that refuse to see the environmental downsides to conventionally grown foods, especially GMOs. There are very intensive methods and yields through closed system growing that requires a fourth of the land currently used with conventional methods. As if we are supposed to believe everything that’s backed by someone in lab and a salesman as the mouthpiece.
Food independence is critical, as well. Talk about an Orwellian nightmare. If Monsanto owned all the patents to every seed, how is that not the very definition of totalitarian?
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“Monsanto’s terms of business require farmers to buy fresh seed every year. Its new Violator Exclusion Policy denies farmers who break the terms of its licences access to all its technology for ever. This summer it achieved its latest success in enforcing its stern line when it won a case against some Canadian farmers who had held on to seed.”
Pop Pot would froth at the mouth. If this was a government doing this we would cry foul. How about cross pollination? That doesn’t matter?
About 100 years ago, farmers had about 10, 000 different seed varieties, now there’s about 800.
Farmers are in the profession that has the highest suicide rate.
How about runoff of Roundup and fertilizers into water tables and rivers? No thought for that.
Seems getting cheap food into people is a short term fix. It’s not sustainable and neither is less diversity of seed stock.
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