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the future of food, a must see documentary about GM cropsIf you haven’t seen this documentary, I suggest you do so before coming on to my blog and defending GM crops. Monsanto is one of the creepiest corporations out there, they invade plant cells with genetic codes and then patent the seeds they make whilst buying up all of the seed companies in the world. Does that sound sane to you? Honestly, just for the good of yourself and your health watch this documentary. Do your research. But never ever just assume that big corporations have your best interest in mind. They don’t. Its about profit. Not health. If GM crops were so great, why would the first lady of the U.S. make a point by planting an organic vegetable garden??? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU8XrioF4CE] 11 comments to the future of food, a must see documentary about GM crops |
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Technically reproduction is a “cell invading” technology. Making things sound horrible with harsh language is a common tactic for those without better arguments.
What do Monsanto’s business practices have to do with the ethics of GM food? Would what they did be ok if it wasn’t over GM crops? The clip brings up legitimate concerns about how Monsanto runs their business.
If you mailed me one of your videos unsolicited and then tried to charge me for it, that would be unethical, but it doesn’t mean sex work is wrong.
And the first lady is planting an organic vegetable garden for political points. It’s the reason politicians do anything. As a response to your video, I’ll post one of my own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8
King Corn is a good doc too.
Like nuclear power we’re implementing this technology when we don’t know enough about it’s wider effects, in this case how altered genes behave and react with other organisms and like 3 mile island or Chernobyl We only need to make one tiny mistake and in the case of GM we create a pathogen or parasite.
As a solution to world hunger it’s being promoted because it makes us money, there are other more considerate solutions to world hunger that are better and don’t make us any money at at all.
Labour intensive organic market gardening produces huge amounts of produce in a small space.
An ounce of meat takes a lot more than an ounce of corn to produce, it takes 6 months to a year of animal feed, thats a lot of food. If the only meat most of us ate was fish, all that land can produce food for humans.
Most people are starving because of war and conflict or bad politics, as in Zimbabwe, those are the problems, Africa has the same abundance of land and resources as the US. Disrespecting someone else’s environment so we can make money from them when there are better solutions, on the pretext that we’re saving their lives doesn’t empower those people and dishonest.
I work with someone from the Gambia and a lot of people in Africa have second hand mobile phones, when they can get the internet on their phones they’ll have the information to review their options, discover our dishonesty, and as a great number of people there are Muslim we generate the same mindset we have in the middle east. If you want to help starving people, at Christmas, instead of buying people who have everything something they don’t need, donate to save the children or send a cow instead and they can do the same on your behalf.
As to Penn and Teller, being arrogant and abusive doesn’t make you right, it just makes you money on TV. TV companies should realize these issues don’t need to made entertaining, their already engaging because their important.
P.S. when I say I work with someone from the The Gambia, they’ve come to England to to work in a warehouse I don’t work with them on the specific issues of hunger
ha ha they just tell me about the culture of Africa.
I have learned a lot about Monsanto in the course of my practice, and they are just awful on multiple levels. Think “Borg” from Star Trek.
P.P.S Send a cow is a charity I’m not suggesting you send anyone a cow for christmas
wish we could edit here.
Oh! This is informative. Thanks for sharing this. The world is just so overpopulated that is why we are coming across with problems such as this one. And we are overpopulated with the wrong kind of people, and that makes the situation even worse.
I don’t assume that corporations or the government for that matter has my best interest at heart. However there is nothing wrong with making profits that is how is businesses grow and in many cases it is what enables them to invest in charities and other activities that help human beings. Of course there have currently been many companies or individuals who have abused their positions which is one of the reasons we
are in the financial straights we are in. Sequoia did you watch the video
Dermanus forwarded to you. I saw the program when it was originally aired on Showtime and while you may have problems with the Monsanto company it seems to be undeniable that Norman Borlaug’s work has been instrumental is saving millions of people from starvation.
Hopefully Obama will reinstill many of the birth control programs which the two Bushes did away with while they were in charge. People also need to be better educated so that they understand at least some science and not believe in superstitions which may be detremental to things such
as climate and population control. Condoms in addition IUDs would be good as they would lower incidents of STDs and therefore increase a country’s bugget toward other things which they may also need.
An amazing movie by Jerry Garcia’s wife (grateful dead). There are some other excellent anti Monsanto and anti GMO movies out there too on Google Video.
the real problem is not world hunger, its over population as it has always been and people that are just mindlessly breeding. they could do much better good in the continent of africa (that western, developed countries had a major hand in fucking up) if they just passed out a shit load of birth control from pills to IUDs, whatever works, along with some good education.
GM crops have not been proven to provide more yield, check out this quote from an article in treehugger:
Read the full article here: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/is-organic-food-good-for-africa.php