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Originally Posted by rhetorical
The problem with gmo is more political in nature. Since companies have been able to patent life forms, firms like Mons anto have locked up crops.
Its in this film, but well known. Mon santo wants 100 per cent of all the soy crops in the world to be "owned" by them and they spare no expense protecting their patent. If you have a field next to a round up ready field and their is cross pollination and then you harvest the seeds, M onsanto will legally put you out of business for patent theft.
Which crop will be next? That is the issue. The food might be safe, but chemical companies will decide the source. Imagine the power of controlling food. It is ultimately more powerful than oil or information.
It doesn't matter if you abandon the centre aisles and shop the perimeter, you will lose the freedom to choose and ultimately the price you pay will be fixed and the free market goes out the window. It pretty much is at the moment, but soon the "pretty much" will be gone.
BTW, I am not guilt free. I once did a campaign for Monsan to on Round Up Ready. In my defense, it was before I understood the import of what they are actually doing.
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*nods*
M0ns@nto and C0n@gra and those chicken people are way up there in monopolising the food chain - and to me, that's the greater issue beyond the scare-tactics on the "frankenfood" argument (which is what we see most of here - much less about the ruthless nature of agribusiness and factory farming). I was thinking that's the direction you went w/ GMOs, not the monopolisation of food supply chains.
Kinda makes me long for the days of the victory gardens, honestly. And don't think I haven't given serious consideration to my own plot.