If potatoes are 39 cents a pound or 59 cents a pound, that’s fine.
Are you sure that's what you want? 25 years ago we raised 7 billions bushels of corn annually. That's to changes in practices, and especially to GM corn seed, (think Monsanto) today we raise 14 billion bushels.
What do you think would happen if we eliminated GM seed, and were suddenly short 30% or 40% on some of our main crops?
Instead of 39 cents or 59 cents, think more like $3.90 or $5.90 a pound for those potatoes. Get to the store early, 'cuz they'll all be gone before noon.
Enjoy your 'organic' foods, they are a luxury that America can afford only because most people eat food produced by GM plants.
If we take out GMO, one by one, we can see the effects on pricing.
I know that sugar is better than corn at making ethanol, but we still have restrictions of some sort at importing sugar and/or importing ethanol.
So, some of the GMO corn is going to the production of ethanol.
If we have 14 million bushels of GMO corn, 7 million for food, 7 million for ethanol, that is not better, necessarily, than 7 million natural, healthy bushels for food and the equivalent of 7 million bushels of corn for ethanol as imported sugar.
Point being, ban the GMOs, wait and see what happens to the price.
Alfalfa, non GMO, is not expensive. The price of alfalfa is not too high right now. We don’t need GMO right now in terms of alfalfa.
If the terrible GMO alfalfa gets out there, yields might improve, but there’s no real need for that. Things are fine right now alfalfawise.