RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 17, 2014 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2014 at 10:16 am by John V.)
(October 16, 2014 at 5:07 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Might not effect the price all that much, but it can change the amount of food produced and with a popuation that's already more than the world can really handle, massive starvation is almost inevitable without some kind of technology to increase our global food supply.If it doesn't affect the price, the poor will still starve.
You're only considering technology, while ignoring economics and human greed.
(October 16, 2014 at 5:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yes. Producers have been intentionally left ion the shitter for decades -precisely so- the consumer can acquire these goods.I meant that the benefits gained from the technology are seemingly all going to the producers of that technology, not the producers of the actual food. Sorry for any confusion. Maybe I'm wrong or simplistic in that statement, too. You apparently know a lot more about the industry than I do. Whoever's getting the benefit, my point is that it's not going to the consumers. As a consumer, I don't really know if there's any danger to these products. IMO no one really knows, as we'll need to see people eating them for a lifetime to really be sure. So, if I don't know if there's danger, and there's no benefit for me in choosing these products, I'm going to stick with the known product.
LOL, as a producer, let me tell you right now, that the profits don't go to the producers. They go to the processors and retailers, who compete for your business, based upon price...but who do not compete for my business. In fact, they cabal right the fuck up to drive my price down so that they can better compete over you. Don't get me wrong...I wouldn't have it any other way. I'd do what I do for free...and sometimes I do. I just want to make sure you have an accurate picture of food production in mind when you go to the checkout isle.
(October 16, 2014 at 6:17 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: People have a tendency to conflate Monsanto's shitty business ethics with their product, which isn't fair to the people that GMOs could help and save.If Monsanto's shitty business ethics keep the products out of the hands of the people that they could help, then it's reasonable to take those practices into consideration.
No one's going to develop these things for free, you know.
