I caught a program about Monsanto and their using genetically modified seeds that they are using in poor countries and the evils of that according to the documentary.

Who produced the program and what was the agenda? We do not live in a perfect world. Ideology is for liberals. Use of genetically modified seed has increased yields that you are a beneficiary of. I would like to go back to the old days when we didn't need and have them but this is one of the things that made Malthus wrong.

By the way, what were the evils?

Dropping yields

Almost half of all corn grown in the US is genetically engineered and for soybeans it is 80%.

The yield for soybeans has gone down however, according to Bill Freese at the Centre for Food Safety.

"What we've seen with the herbicide tolerant soybeans overall, is a 5-10% lower yield with the Round-up Ready soybeans - that's the herbicide tolerant soybean sold by Monsanto," he says.

But Michael Fromm, director for the Centre of Biotechnology at the University of Nebraska, who helped develop GM crops for Monsanto, points out that farmers who buy genetically engineered seed decide whether the price is worth the yield they achieve."

"There's absolutely no one making him buy those seeds," he says.

"They're voting for the transgenic seeds at higher cost for higher benefits."