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GMOs are under patent and increase prices, they do not keep the poor hungry, they are simply resistant to more pesticides. And pesticides like Roundup have bee
by moi2388 2y ago
GMOs are under patent and increase prices, they do not keep the poor hungry, they are simply resistant to more pesticides.
And pesticides like Roundup have been linked to neurological problems like Parkinson.
If you’d want to save the poor, you’d teach them about greenhouses and irrigation and soil enrichment, which are actually the biggest issues in these poor countries
- Kuinox 2y agoWhat do you have against GMO like the golden rice ? None of what you listed applies to it, yet your statements harms GMO like golden rice.
- moi2388 2y agoYes, general statements never (almost never? :p) deal with all edge cases. Did you know they don’t need a patent on the crop? They can file patents on variations of the genes in question, meaning even other variations can be protected under patent laws. I guess it would be more honest to say I think there are other, more pressing matters in agriculture than GMOs, and that I have serious problems with patents on basic needs like medicine and food sources. But the topic was about GMOs, so I phrased my response in this context. Do with it as you like.
- Kuinox 2y agoCrops patents is not specific to GMO. Calling the golden rice an edge case is showing you are unaware of all the GMO used to solve locals problems, that is a net benefit for the human and reduce the agriculture impact.
- defrost 2y agoRoundup is a broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicide. A weed|plant-killer (not a pesticide) that grain crops are modified to be resistant to.