The Case For Genetically Modified Food
Ample research and decades of experience have shown that genetically modified crop technology is safe. People have been consuming genetically modified food for years. The vast majority of Midwest corn and soybeans used for animal feed and many pantry staples is genetically modified.
Moreover, this technology represents an astonishingly effective way to increase the food supply -- to feed a rapidly expanding global population.
There is vast potential: crops with enhanced nutrition, crops that grow in droughts, crops that enable subsistence farmers to deal with conditions that thwart conventional crops. Those innovations are well within reach.
Since farming began farmers have been saving part of their crop as seed for the next harvest. With Monsanto, you are prohibited from keeping any, you must go back to them every year and pay whatever price they decide to charge. There are also only certain insecticides that can be used and they can only be bought from Monsanto. In short, Monsanto, Bayer and a few others are trying to get a monopoly of the world's food supply. Their motive, and only motive : Naked Greed!
ReplyDeleteThat should probably be outlawed, or strictly regulated.
ReplyDeleteBut they do deserve to be paid for their ideas and execution just like any other company.
Is there a law you have to use Monsanto seed rather than regular seeds?
I don't think so.
So, use God's seeds, if you don't like it.
I can't imagine you would disagree with that, would you?