Golden Rice: GMO "Super Gruel" for the Masses

Land Destroyer ^ | 7-16-2014

[Black Agnes]

Because they alone can ensure everyone is adequately fed with the ‘right’ foods.

[driftdiver]

Why do you feel a government and global corporate monopoly on food is admirable?

[driftdiver]

Sarcasm?

They can also ensure only the right people have food.

[Black Agnes]

Sorry, forgot the /s on that.

Both are accurate statements.

[vbmoneyspender]

I'm so sick and tired of GMO KOOKS.

The fact is, Monsanto has saved more lives than Hitler murdered. They save more lives than we kill every day in America in abortuaries.

You are part of the affluent First World. You'll likely never know what it is like to go hungry unless your Guru tells you to fast.

Amen brother. Amen.

[Black Agnes]

Then why are the rabidly pro population control billionaires, including the ones who support involuntary sterilization, also the ones promoting GMO crops?

[factoryrat]

That's a very good point that you brought up. Dictators and communists use crop destruction and confiscation as a method to cull the peasants, and make the survivors more compliant. Burning crops, killing livestock, and salting the earth are time honored traditions of warlords and rulers since time immortal. GMO staples are a way to help get a people back on their feet in the aftermath of a previous catastrophe as noted above, but at some point their diet does need to be diversified.

[vbmoneyspender]

Bill Gates has donated money to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico - which Norman Borlaug had a in hand in starting. As far as I'm concerned, Gates is doing God's work in donating money to that Center. Without it and without its main founder, Normal Borlaug, literally millions, if not billions, of people would have died of starvation in the last 70 years.

So when Gates donates money to an entity that indisputably has saved millions of lives, that should reflect well on him instead of reflecting poorly on entity saving lives.

[artichokegrower]

I don’t get the corporate or government monopoly of food. I’ve worked in agriculture for the last 37 years and every year I am exposed to an increasing pool of ag product suppliers. Monsanto Round-up came off patent several years ago and there are dozens of generic glyphosate products on the market. The protection of intellectual property when it comes to seed is no different than patents on software or copy rights on music. There would be no incentive for research and development without and economic return. The patent on Golden Rice was voluntarily rescinded as a humanitarian gesture.

[Black Agnes]

Then explain that, in light of the fact that Bill Gates also supports involuntary sterilization in the 3rd world.

I’m sure the right hand supports adequate food so that those 3rd worlders have big healthy 3rd world families while the left hand supports involuntary sterilization because there are ‘too many people’.

[vbmoneyspender]

Go ahead and educate yourself about the greatest American of the 20th century: Norman Borlaug. And then get back to me about one world conspiracy theories.

[Black Agnes]

I know exactly who Norman Borlaug is.

I also know his funding came from the Rockefellers.

Who were also rabid population control wackjobs.

[quimby]

Monsanto and the rest of big ag are an example of fascism in the US and the world. They sue farmers whos crops are pollinated by wind of nearby GMO crops, and fight like hell any attempt to lablel gmo’s- forced into our food without proper testing. And the gov’t plays right along

Tremendous advancement has been made in crop efficiency, all by virtue of natural hybid tech. Once gmo’s are involved with patent rights involved, the “charity” of the super ag corporations becomes highly questionable.

It is amazing how many self proclaimd conservatives play right along with the gov’t/big ag aliance.

[vbmoneyspender]

Who were also rabid population control wackjobs.

Yeah, 'wackjobs' who funded a guy who saved a billion lives.

There's certainly a wackjob involved in this argument but I'm pretty sure it isn't people who were involved in helping Norman Borlaug save a billion lives.

[Black Agnes]

You didn’t refute the Rockefeller involvement in population control.

Explain their interest in population control with ‘saving a billion lives’.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“I raise a large garden as well. However, Golden Rice is a very good product for 3rd worlders. “

Except it has never been tested for the promotion of cancer or any other human consequence.

“Greenpeace is a bunch of commies bastards.

Crony capitalists are as bad or worse.

“I put anyone who is against something like golden rice in the same category as the idiots who pushed to outlaw DDT. Comfortable, well fed people should not be making decisions for less fortunate countries.

I will add the crony big ag folks to your list - who use political graft to force this untested food onto the third world while raking in money.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“The fact is, Monsanto has saved more lives than Hitler murdered.”

I’d love to see cites of studies backing up that opinion...

[jjotto]

Seriously? You’ve never heard of the Green Revolution?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[vbmoneyspender]

Here is Norman Borlaug talking about the support Monsanto has given to rice and wheat research - Norman Borlaug speech

[driftdiver]

However the government controls the gmo staples and are heavily influenced by the global food companies.

They have no interest in actually helping people.