27th of May protest of GM research

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I'm not a foodie, so I'm probably one of those who can't tell the difference between one tomato and another, however it still seems to be one of the worst snobbery of the first world.

What exactly, do people think scientists are trying to achieve with GM crops. Greater yield, nutrition is the main goal, and in an ever populated world, I simply do not see how this is a bad thing.

What I do not like, is the concept of patenting the crop, which is necessary due to the massive cost (apparently not the case in the threads example btw). There are court cases where companies have sued farmers for harvesting a crop that has grown via cross-pollination.. which makes me a little angry.

Is it so bad to sacrifice a little flavour in exchange for crops that will hopefully benefit all of mankind eventually. Its not as if the market for unaltered food will go away from those suffering "first world problems" continue to wish to have "organic" unaltered vegetables.

You really don't need to be a "foodie", whatever that is supposed to be, to know the difference between a non-gm, organic tomato and a gm tomato, that is grown with synthetic fertilizers. Synthetic fertilizers, well...Are useful to a point, however, gm foodstuff is a direct manipulation towards the natural way of things, all the while claiming plants as fucking intellectual property rights of a person or a company.
Just as I cannot produce renault cars in my country without the consent of renault, I cannot produce the seeds I need to grow food without the consent of the ones who own the IPR to the damn foodstuff.

You guys are so keen to protest DRM and oppose anti-piracy movements(just as I do), but you keep defending these people who do not want to solve world hunger, but to keep us under their shackles by threatening us with hunger, as they will have the access to the seeds themselves once they made other countries and peoples dependent on them.
Seeds, according to these GM guys, should only be produced by them, and they look at this matter in the most practical way possible. Introduce seeds that produce crops with qualities like longer shelf lives and higher yield, with introducing genes into them that render the next generation of seeds infertile.
And yes, it is bad to cause people to be dependent on seeds, all the while claiming that this is the solution to the world hunger problems.
No, this is not the solution to any world hunger problems.
No one on this earth is hungry because there is no food to get, people are hungry because they cannot pay for the food. I'm hungry, so I go to the shoppe and buy food to eat. Or I go to an Imbiß or restaurant to eat, but what if I had no money at all? I'd starve to death. Besides, I'm not sure how this will render foodstuff to be less expensive either.

Try asking one of the countless starving individuals round the globe if they give a single solitary fuck about whether its natural or not, the weak and silent look of near-death desperation will be your answer.

Give that person a hundred dollars, and see for yourself. If there is no extraordinary condition like a famine, people that die from starvation generally do so due to low economic buying power.
Or do you really think that crops do not grow in the poor areas of the world? For example, the republic of Congo, a large landmass, and can very well, produce the primary foodstuffs like rice, millet, maize and etc.
But they can't. It's not because due to lower yields, it's because they cannot afford any money they have to invest in the growth of crops, as to sell them to someone in the future.

And what do you think will happen in the future? I can tell you what I think. I see this as a new age for serfdom. For example, the people of Congo, not able to produce things due to the lack of help from their government, will open their arms to the foreign investors who will buy off their lands, start growing their own crops, and any local growers who earn anything will not be able to compete with the newcomers, all the while earning profits from it: sure, they might take in a few workers, and increase the agricultural output of the country on paper, but how will this affect the buying power of the people? It won't. The GM you see as the savior of starving people, is actually nothing more than the opposite of it.
It seeks to enslave people.