GMO-free is a marketing sham wrote:
i'd be more worried if he was buying stock in Monsanto
What's wrong about Monsanto? Their technology is increasingly necessary to feed the world's growing population. We aren't going to feed 10 billion people with mule-and-plow family farms. Even if we tried, we'd end up mowing down every bit of the world's rainforests for food production. GM crops are a part of the solution, along with lifestyle and cultural changes (eating less meat, having fewer kids, and so forth). There's been absolutely no scientific data showing any negative health effects from GM crops.
Kind of a couple flaws here. First, you wouldn't need to mow down any rain forest or anywhere new, that's a bit of a reach. There's plenty of space. And space isn't dependant on the method of plow whether it be tractor or animal.
The trouble with monstanto's methods is that their less adaptable seeds designed for production take a heavy toll on the soil and thus require the farmer to become dependant on hauling in inputs to amend soil health. This ends up turning into a very expensive relationship of total dependancy. Furthermore, the heavy yeilds are actually pretty pathetic as far as nutrients go. Heritage breed seeds/ plants with natural growing methods may have lower yields but if farmed well can actually produce far greater nutrients than gmo- which translates to feeding more people on less surface if you wanted to go there.
The other problem is with the crazy shifts of weather lately gmo seeds are terrible at adapting, so say what you will about climate change, but the wild swings of weather are happening and causing a danger to these extremely vulnerable seeds.
None of this has anything to do with the topic... OP seriously, do you know anything about Buddhism?