It's May 04, 2024, 05:02:32 AM
The second.If you Fraxx are a farmer. And you decide 2 plant wheat. No one is stopping you.No-one has the patent on wheat or apples or oranges.Right. that would be ridiculous.Wrong: the seeds that they modify are patented. Meaning you need a license 2 grow them.And if you by accident mix their seed with your seed. You need 2 pay up or burn your seeds.Look at this poor American farmer. Do you really think he can win from the big cooperations.There was another case of a farmer I can not find it. But that farmer did not buy GMO. But the farmers around him had GMO. And ofcourse in an natural way (wind) some seeds of wheat mixed with his seeds.He had 2 burn his entire natural seeds. Which he used for generations.I can go into the fact that they can put an enddate in seeds. Like after three harvests it will no longer grow.So that you become dependent.Yes that is right.We throw away our natural seeds who for thousands of years has fed us. 2 become dependent on these patented GMO.http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/food-ark/food-variety-graphic
Exactly my thoughts. You can sum it up as: Even if it's not some kind of evil plan for domination but "only" maximization of profits, in the end those corporations like Monsanto will have the whole world on a stranglehold because they legally own what everyone sows and can dictate the terms on which you're allowed to do that. You can already see this in India, South America and even the US like you said. Gonna write something more on that later.
Gonna write something more on that later.
Voters in Washington State are considering a hotly contested initiative that would require labeling all foods containing genetically-modified ingredients. The measure pits local consumer advocates, who argue that the measure is needed for consumers to make better informed choices, against large agribusinesses such as Monsanto, which argue that such a law would spook potential customers and unfairly imply that such products are unsafe.Washington is the second state to consider such a ballot measure. A similar proposal was narrowly rejected by California voters last year.According to the non-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 95 bills relating to the issue have been introduced in state legislatures so far this year -- a reflection of growing public interest in the controversy surrounding genetically modified foods.
Human health risksAllergenicity Many children in the US and Europe have developed life-threatening allergies to peanuts and other foods. There is a possibility that introducing a gene into a plant may create a new allergen or cause an allergic reaction in susceptible individuals. A proposal to incorporate a gene from Brazil nuts into soybeans was abandoned because of the fear of causing unexpected allergic reactions31. Extensive testing of GM foods may be required to avoid the possibility of harm to consumers with food allergies. Labeling of GM foods and food products will acquire new importance, which I shall discuss later.Unknown effects on human health There is a growing concern that introducing foreign genes into food plants may have an unexpected and negative impact on human health. A recent article published in Lancet examined the effects of GM potatoes on the digestive tract in rats32, 33. This study claimed that there were appreciable differences in the intestines of rats fed GM potatoes and rats fed unmodified potatoes. Yet critics say that this paper, like the monarch butterfly data, is flawed and does not hold up to scientific scrutiny34. Moreover, the gene introduced into the potatoes was a snowdrop flower lectin, a substance known to be toxic to mammals. The scientists who created this variety of potato chose to use the lectin gene simply to test the methodology, and these potatoes were never intended for human or animal consumption.On the whole, with the exception of possible allergenicity, scientists believe that GM foods do not present a risk to human health.