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March Against Monsanto is happening everywhere around the world today. Go to www.march-against-monsanto.com/
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@Yiffmaniac
You people have no clue what you’re talking about.
This, Russia has banned GMO for good reason.
Monsanto has zero interest in keeping America’s or any other countries perpetual food supply working. GMO is being used to wipe out that function. It is a weapon, follow the tree of money (and terror) and you’ll find out directly ‘which’ country is administering it, and it isn’t the USA.
Here’s RationalWiki debunking the myths as well: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food
Barely pony related, indeed. You could’ve at least made it into a funny comic.
Yeah, that’s the problem with allowing people to patent genetic sequences. It shouldn’t be legal but it is.
Some things I’ve heard here and there being that the GMO crops, while they may have certain benefits to the farmer, cannot grow their own seeds so a farmer would need to continually buy the seeds from Monsanto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWY-3wfyTVg
The corporations that make them and patent them are.
Genetic modification is the next step in agriculture.
So, that’s not Monsanto’s fault. It’s that the US patent system is tragic at most. (And it is tragic, but I think that’s for other reasons.)
Really, you can’t expect a company to not aim for the profits. It’s perfectly legitimate. You can, however, act so the rules of the game are changed. You know, the laws.
Monsanto’s most successful product is the herbicide Roundup, which formula isn’t covered by patents anymore and now other companies produces “Roundup”, or rather a glyphosate-based herbicide.
Glyphosate is a powerful herbicide indeed, but it’s quite good for the enviroment because it degrades quickly. The problem is that it’s non-selective and kills the crops too.
That’s why Monsanto engineered “Roundup-Ready” (RR) crops, so farmers could use Roundup without worrying for the health and nutritious content of the crops.
It seems a perfectly legitimate business to me. Even if the law allows Monsanto to produce sterile seeds, so farmers must buy them from Monsanto every year. But hey, this is the business, since glyphosate isn’t protected by patents anymore.
You can whine because of Monsanto, but this shouldn’t push you to complain against GMOs. It’s not that just Monsanto can do researches on GMOs, you know. And in fact, some GMO crops were developed by universities and aren’t covered by royalties.
Sooo… back on topic. Equestria doesn’t have GMOs? Prove it.
Hell, there’s magic in Equestria! You can have much worse, just ask Discord!
Monsanto is terrible, yes, but that’s because of the people who run it instead of any inherent problem with GMOs. But I know of plenty of people who treat the entire idea of GMOs as an evil that must be stopped.
It’s just how Monsanto uses them that’s bad.
They were making dangerous products long before they stats creating GMO, I see no reasons to think they would magically become paragons of virtue after.
The real problem with Monsanto is their abuse of patents. If you buy seed from them one year and grow crops, you can’t seeds from that crop for the next year or you’d be breaking the patent. You have to buy all over again. Oh, and if you have a non-Monsanto field nearby that cross-pollinates with the Monsanto product, you can’t use its seeds either.
Also, the main angle of their genetic engineering is to make their crops immune to the potent pesticides and herbicides they produce (Monsanto was originally a chemical company).
Then there’s the patenting of certain genes so other scientists can’t even research them.
So what I’m getting at is that GMO is most definitely the future of food processing but these people managed to turn it into a weapon by accident? … or not by accident?
That is true, GMO’s can be good, just need to properly test them several times over to see if they are safe BEFORE putting it out on the market, don’t falsely advertise you products with info that can easily be proven false, and so on.