People love to cry about Monsanto and I’ve done my fair share of it but their seeds have doubled yields.
Your comment made me think of a line from the “V” series (the premise is aliens coming to Earth and offering humans technology, etc. but are using them.)
To paraphrase:
One news anchor: “But look at all the changes we’re getting like healing centers and jobs to make life better.”
The second anchor: “And I’m sure the (american) indians were warm in their blankets before they started dying (of smal pox).
Make a deal with the devil and he’ll always turn on you. Monsanto may be doubling crops (increasing “security”), but at the cost of both literal freedom (see: their pollen crossing with local food and them suing you into oblivion) and metaphorical freedom (terminator seeds, and their now line that will only germinate if you spray Roundup on them. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT GETS INTO OUR FOOD SUPPLY?).
It’s an ethical issue. Sometime we have to make a hard choices between Poisson pill and double digit yield.