"This statement is supported by 81 Councillors of the World Future Council,
… The choice of the 2013 World Food Prize is an affront to the growing international consensus on safe, ecological farming practices that have been scientifically proven to promote nutrition and sustainability. Many governments have rejected GMOs, and as many as two million citizens in 52 countries recently marched in oppositionto GMOs and Monsanto. In living democracies, discounting this knowledge and these many voices is not acceptable.
… While profitable to the few companies producing them, GMO seeds reinforce a model of farming that undermines sustainability of cash-poor farmers, who make up most of the world'shungry. GMO seeds continuefarmers' dependency on purchased seed and chemical inputs. The most dramaticimpact of such dependency isinIndia, where 270,000 farmers, many trapped indebt for buying seedsand chemicals, committed suicide between1995 and 2012.
LOL! More like the World Past Council.
as many as two million citizens in 52 countries recently marched in opposition to GMOs and Monsanto.
As many as 6 billion citizens did not march.
GMO seeds reinforce a model of farming that undermines sustainability of cash-poor farmers, who make up most of the world's hungry.
It's true, higher yield farming makes it tough for low yield farming.
GMO seeds continue farmers' dependency on purchased seed and chemical inputs.
It's a good thing the higher yields pay for the higher costs.
The most dramatic impact of such dependency is in India, where 270,000 farmers, many trapped in debt for buying seeds and chemicals, committed suicide between 1995 and 2012.
I heard it was 270,000,000.
Few?
Every successful seed company in the world is either producing them, or has sucontracted out to have them produced for them.