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The world of corporate food can turn the world upside down.
When people are starving, genetically modified food starts to look better
Seeded on Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:12 PM EDT
Article Source: MIT
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Kenya and South Africa are two places on the continent where Monsanto's groups have made good inroads to promoting GMO food and this looks like one bit of spin from that network. We have yet to see any human health or safety data establishing this as fit for human consumption and despite endless caims of benefits for production there has been no data that show industrialized agriculture with irrigation and chemicals benefits the people or planet more than without it.
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#1 - Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:40 AM EDT(sigh) It's a good argument, but I'm still suspicious of the long term impact, and unforeseen consequences. Or maybe, I'm just suspicious of Monsanto's motives. I guess I have trust issues.
#2 - Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:13 PM EDTto me, starvation is not an excuse to use GMOs. Learning how to grow food in a harsh climate and good farming techniques are worth far more.
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My point is that it's a good PR (public relations) argument, and it often works. People shouldn't be starving, but they are, most often thanks to politics and corporate manipulation. And then comes GMOs...
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It might be a good argument if the gmo were tested, shown to be safe for humans to eat and delivered the benefits they claim to. As it stands, they use more chemicals, create more pollution and have unknown human health effects.
Because the gmo aren't tested the best guess we have to the risk of illness is to follow a decade plus trend in US health as the participants in a Nationwide, RoundupReady feeding experiment.
Just a glance at soaring rates of childhood obesity, food allergies and "adult onset diabetes" so prevalent it needs to be renamed and ask what benefit Monsanto beyond profits are delivered when we get the Nation is plagued with sickness and 1 of 5 children in America still goes to bed hungry.
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