Stalin would have loved Monsanto,
If control/power is the goal, then it would make sense that at some point even though it is possible to feed more people it could be that those in control will decide who gets food and who doesn’t.
What disturbs me more than Monsanto is after Monsanto controls the food- who will control Monsanto? If the government takes over Monsanto at that point food is controlled by the government. Monsanto may or may not be evil, I am not comfortable with food being controlled to the extent they are attempting to control it. No patents should have been allowed for food, no one should control food in that way.
Crops have been altered by man as far back as man has tended them. Selective breeding, hybrids, grafting...to my knowledge no one patented the process which gives them control over anyone else that might choose to do the same.
Monsanto wants to keep their cake and sell it too, they want to claim their process is just a newer way to raise crops- nothing to fear. Yet they patent their results when that has not been the case with food. No one else is legally allowed to do what they have patented, no other company can just decide to do the same process. That is power like no other when you are talking about food.
I haven’t even decided how I feel about GMA, I do think at the very least testing should have been required before it was allowed to be sold as it is for new drugs to be released. No one really knows if there will be long term health consequences. To me it seems like a bad idea to co-mingle pesticides with foods during the genetic stage- there has been much controversy over different pesticides applied to food, genetically introducing it to food seems like a bad idea.