RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2014 at 1:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The anti-GMO crowd are the moon landing hoaxers of agriculture.
GMO's offer solutions for hunger, agricultural pollution, ecological damage, and economic destitution. They are tested rigorously, and in ways that most of the crops we grow have never been subjected to. They are safe, they are edible. There is no reasonable objection to GMO's themselves. While one might refer to the actions of the corporate giants that control the gmo seed - most of these stories are slightly less than factual as-told by the Anti-GMO crowd. Which is mystifying, because they're bad enough without embellishment.
We need more public funding for GMO research, and we need to insist that it produce public ip. Any sane food security policy would have to include this as a cornerstone. We should not be at the whims of random hybridization or individual farmers in search of the next robust grain cultivar, nor should this cultivar be the proprietary product of a single giant agribusiness. It's unfortunate, because alot of what fuels GMO Ag started out as research at public universities, but now we have a situation in which a few fairly unsavory corporate bodies have a deathgrip on what might be one of mankind's best ideas - in any field, of all time.
GMO's offer solutions for hunger, agricultural pollution, ecological damage, and economic destitution. They are tested rigorously, and in ways that most of the crops we grow have never been subjected to. They are safe, they are edible. There is no reasonable objection to GMO's themselves. While one might refer to the actions of the corporate giants that control the gmo seed - most of these stories are slightly less than factual as-told by the Anti-GMO crowd. Which is mystifying, because they're bad enough without embellishment.
We need more public funding for GMO research, and we need to insist that it produce public ip. Any sane food security policy would have to include this as a cornerstone. We should not be at the whims of random hybridization or individual farmers in search of the next robust grain cultivar, nor should this cultivar be the proprietary product of a single giant agribusiness. It's unfortunate, because alot of what fuels GMO Ag started out as research at public universities, but now we have a situation in which a few fairly unsavory corporate bodies have a deathgrip on what might be one of mankind's best ideas - in any field, of all time.
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