27th of May protest of GM research

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Foodie is a colloquial term. It is an aficionado of food and drink, whom is able to discern difference in quality to minute detail. Most of us think a tomato tastes tomato-ey and leaves it at that.

You don't need that either. I am a smoker for like how many years now, and I don't have the best senses when it comes to taste, but I know a tomato that is of the local Ayaş variaty in Ankara, and one that has been raised in a greenhouse somewhere. An ayaş tomato is always better in taste, smell and sight, this is why it is so famous in Turkey. The tomato shares a special relationship with the land on which it's grown, and has developed a taste according to it.
They are just like grapes that are used to make wine.
It's like saying, just use the same grapes to produce wine, who really cares about taste anyways?

Government funding is still even worse, in my eyes.
What if in the late future, the country that grows the seeds decides to put a blockade on goods that come from that country and go to the other?
If I'm not able to buy seeds, I cannot grow crops. You can buy planes, tanks and etc. , Iphones, laptops and everything that you don't eat, but once you become dependent on the outside to even grow food, saying, not to buy or import food, but to grow the food that you produce domestically, that means that you have relinquished a large portion of your people's sovereignity to another nation.
The GM, are in my eyes, weapons of mass destruction. They are just like nukes. You don't need to fire the nukes to know how destructive they are.
Similarly, GM food.

You're capable with economics.

What happens when you increase the supply and reduce wastage?

What you're saying is that GM crops generally make the foodstuff cheaper. And I'm saying, that this will not be the case, as in places of starvation, people are not even growing food anymore due to the low buying power that exists there. You cannot increase supply because supply is already going downhill with less people actually producing things, and lesser people having the money to buy things. How would GM's benefit countries and their peoples? They would not. GM food is not the solution to the worlds hunger problems.