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Rick Overton, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to
GMO’s. What you’re saying is both wrong and counterproductive on several
levels.
First, lets establish what GMO’s are: It stands for genetically modified
organisms. Genetic modification is a tool to modify plants to make them
better suited for our needs and the kind of environment they’re intended to
grow in. That’s it.
Most of our modern food plants are GMO’s, if you think about it. Carrots,
bananas, potatoes, grains and so on and so on all came into existence
through manipulated crossbreeding of inedible or barely edible wild
varieties of plants. Genetic modification is merely a refinement of that
process, making it both faster and more exact.
What you are referring to, that which is the big bad, is Monsantos GMO’s,
which are mainly modified to be able to withstand stronger pesticides and
weedkillers, turning them both more toxic to the consumers and creating a
virulent kind of spread of these nigh unkillable plants killing all other
types of growth. This deserves to be criticized, don’t get me wrong, but
not like you’re doing it.
What I’m saying is: Modify plants with safety, health and ecological
farming in mind and you’ll get a plant that is resistant to bug
infestation, needs less water, produces higher yields, requires less
eco-unfriendly fertilizer and/or needs no toxic pesticides. It’s all
possible, if you do it right and aim for sustainability.
And that means science departments in our universities needs money to
continue to develop this type of science, independently from corporations.
But what you, like so many others, are doing – Sowing the proverbial seed
of mistrust and fear of GMO’s as a concept – will only play into the hands
of Monsanto. They already have the established infrastructure and a
finished line of products, pretty much. When you turn people against GMO’s,
you’re making it harder for potential competitors to Monsanto to ever get
anywhere.
And make no mistake: We’re already long past the point where the population
on this planet can be sustained on basic ecological farming alone. We need
to up the yields past the basic yield of unmodified plants, or find
ourselves going into world-wide famine. We need GMO’s. And with no proper
competition, people will be forced to buy Monsanto products, no matter what.
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Rick Overton, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to
GMO’s. What you’re saying is both wrong and counterproductive on several
levels.
First, lets establish what GMO’s are: It stands for genetically modified
organisms. Genetic modification is a tool to modify plants to make them
better suited for our needs and the kind of environment they’re intended to
grow in. That’s it.
Most of our modern food plants are GMO’s, if you think about it. Carrots,
bananas, potatoes, grains and so on and so on all came into existence
through manipulated crossbreeding of inedible or barely edible wild
varieties of plants. Genetic modification is merely a refinement of that
process, making it both faster and more exact.
What you are referring to, that which is the big bad, is Monsantos GMO’s,
which are mainly modified to be able to withstand stronger pesticides and
weedkillers, turning them both more toxic to the consumers and creating a
virulent kind of spread of these nigh unkillable plants killing all other
types of growth. This deserves to be criticized, don’t get me wrong, but
not like you’re doing it.
What I’m saying is: Modify plants with safety, health and ecological
farming in mind and you’ll get a plant that is resistant to bug
infestation, needs less water, produces higher yields, requires less
eco-unfriendly fertilizer and/or needs no toxic pesticides. It’s all
possible, if you do it right and aim for sustainability.
And that means science departments in our universities needs money to
continue to develop this type of science, independently from corporations.
But what you, like so many others, are doing – Sowing the proverbial seed
of mistrust and fear of GMO’s as a concept – will only play into the hands
of Monsanto. They already have the established infrastructure and a
finished line of products, pretty much. When you turn people against GMO’s,
you’re making it harder for potential competitors to Monsanto to ever get
anywhere.
And make no mistake: We’re already long past the point where the population
on this planet can be sustained on basic ecological farming alone. We need
to up the yields past the basic yield of unmodified plants, or find
ourselves going into world-wide famine. We need GMO’s. And with no proper
competition, people will be forced to buy Monsanto products, no matter what.
Don’t be a Monsanto enabler. Please?
Im fed up that there is Always money for War..but NEVER enough to HELP
Americans HERE at Home..? Im Disgusted!