There has been quite a lot of tripe going around about genetically modified food lately and since it is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, you are going to get an truck load of rant on this today.
Some ignorant people are saying that GM food crops are going to be the only way to feed the world and that "organics" or traditional agriculture doesn't and will not produce enough. Let me start off with stating the fact that it is not a lack of food that has people starving all over the world(including America.) It is a lack of money. Starvation is caused by economic problems not food supply shortages. We as Americans throw away and waste enough food products to feed the world. THERE IS NO FOOD SHORTAGE! So that in itself destroys any reason for genetically altered food if they are claiming increased yields. But there is a problem with that claim. GM crops DO NOT produce more, and the crutch that they are using to prop up "conventional" corporate agriculture will make the soil unfit to produce anything ever again. Research has shown that it is not the plant that needs changing to increase yield, disease, drought, and pest resistance, but that the soil is what needs to be developed into a healthy living organism. GM crops allow corporate farms to keep up practices that strip away any health and vitality. Pisses me off to hear people say that Corporation like Monsanto are the future of farming when they obviously are so far removed from agriculture that they don't even realize that a hamburger comes from a cow.
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Genetically modified foods do not hold the key to food security, but they have an important role to play. Every option should be put on the table when dealing with food shortages.
I dare say that by your website that you are in the industry and a major proponent of GM foods. I will say it again, There is no food shortage. People and places around the world can not get food because of political and economic issues. There is food enough, just not everyone can get it.
There is no place in this world for companies like monsanto that have an agenda of making saving seeds illegal, creating seeds that will only fruit for one season, and have no long term independent scientific testing to ascertain the potential hazards involved with GM crops. GM crops are not an option.
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