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This has been my take on it. Not that GMOs will poison your body or anything woo like that. Rather, it's an enormous amount of power to give to an industry with
by ericbarrett 5y ago
This has been my take on it. Not that GMOs will poison your body or anything woo like that. Rather, it's an enormous amount of power to give to an industry with tight margins and few scruples. I can't help but envision vegetables full of simple sugars, pesticides, and so forth in their very DNA. It's a complex picture and there are no doubt great cases for its use, e.g. golden rice. But this is the same industry that sprays RoundUp on wheat just to ripen it[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
- destitude 5y agoAnd also sues farmers who save seeds from the plants to use next year. You have to pay the company every year for new seed instead of being able to just save some seed back and never having to purchase more again. Gives complete power to the companies and dependency on them.
- UncleMeat 5y agoThere are a number of reasons to be skeptical of agribusiness, but this one is especially overblown. The widely known suits around "saved seeds" were not about that specifically.
- pfdietz 5y agoSo, you're against hybrid crop varieties? Because you can't save the seeds of those and get the same results. You aren't at the mercy of the companies supplying the seeds because they compete with each other. Also, presumably if this were the objection then something like Roundup-Ready soybeans would now be ok, since those are now off patent. You're ok with those now, right?