Monsanto now effectively controls food supply, because once their GMO POS seeds destroy all others, we will be dependent on their junk science to feed us, and there’s no conclusive data that GMOs are safe for human consumption.
One of the most evil corporations on Earth.
Control the production of food
Control the distribution of food
Control everything
” there’s no conclusive data that GMOs are safe for human consumption.”
Correct
Is there conclusive data that they are UN-safe?
However, the soy in question in not technically genetically modified (GMO). No gene splicing was done. The plants are grown in a lab environment and simply selected for many generations for resistance to herbicides.
This is similar to how early humans changed many of the plants we use today. For example, corn was originally only a few inches long and not very tasty. Humans kept selecting the seeds from the largest, most tasty corn to plant for the next generation. Over time corn was developed into what we see today.
I don't agree with this "resistance" type of breeding because it encourages herbicide overuse. However, I do believe plant breeders should be somehow protected from outright commercial piracy since they invest millions into development. Without protection, someone will simply steal their work and undercut them each time. If the court allowed this, the plant breeding industry would be dead: “Buy perfect copies of Monsanto's super seeds here. Half price.”
GMO soybean seeds don’t “destroy all others”. Soybeans don’t cross pollinate, which is why it’s so easy for Monsanto to prove when its seed stock has been pirated.
Relax. We still operate in a free market. If farmer’s don’t want Monsanto seed, they can use other seed. Stealing is not a conservative value, and that is what this farmer wanted to do. Monsanto-hate is populist nonsense.
But he said hard times forced him to purchase a cheaper mixture of seeds from a grain elevator starting in 1999, which he used for his second planting.
The mixture included Roundup Ready soybeans, which Bowman was able to isolate and replant from 2000 to 2007.
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Nothing in the story tells me that the seeds he bought from the grain elevator were Monsanto product (other than the unsubstantiated allegation that it “contained” the seeds) ,, only that they had the same characteristics , they weren’t sold by Monsanto or labeled as Monsanto seeds ... they were sold as generic soybeans ... that he took the ones that survived “roundup” and grew them for future seeds/plantings sounds 100% OK to me.
It started with Kellogs and Post and the food pyramid, telling us that 80% of our diet should be grains (carbs).
The food pyramid has been turned upside down, we now know that our diet should only be about 10% carbs.
This was taught to us by our schools, under Jimmy Carter.
The food pyramid was a scam, and those companies made so much money, it would make Bill Gates look foolish.
There is no evidence they are harmful either
What makes you think Monsanto controls the world’s seed supply? You need to get out more. Farmers have many choices, including many non-GM varieties. Like all the other companies in the business, Monsanto produces what it thinks farmers will want to buy.