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Americans seem more concerned about gay marriage, birth control, hookers in South America, or some fantasy FEMA camp, yet they seem to be uninterested in our food supply.
The apathy seems to cross all political lines. What gives?
GMOs are a great way to make lots of food cheaply... and even "normal" food crops have been subject to a slower version of basically the same process for thousands of years though crop domestication. None of them are truly "natural" anymore.
What does bother me is how Monsanto seems to be trying to create a monopoly on the industry and foster the dependence of farmers on them with "suicide seeds" and the like. It also does not sit well with me that they patent life itself... it might not matter yet with plants, but what about when we can literally make sentient humanistic life? The technology is coming!
But Ultimately Monsanto and friends are just doing what any evil multinational corporation would do; to make more profitable crops, not necessarily better crops.
GMOs are a great way to make lots of food cheaply... and even "normal" food crops have been subject to a slower version of basically the same process for thousands of years though crop domestication. None of them are truly "natural" anymore.
What does bother me is how Monsanto seems to be trying to create a monopoly on the industry and foster the dependence of farmers on them with "suicide seeds" and the like. It also does not sit well with me that they patent life itself... it might not matter yet with plants, but what about when we can literally make sentient humanistic life? The technology is coming!
But Ultimately Monsanto and friends are just doing what any evil multinational corporation would do; to make more profitable crops, not necessarily better crops.
I doubt crops mated with fish, that's just not natural. They don't call it frankenfood for nothing
Thanks! I ask myself the same thing over & over....Apathy & Monsanto has too much money & power, etc. :(
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Originally Posted by Frugality
Americans seem more concerned about gay marriage, birth control, hookers in South America, or some fantasy FEMA camp, yet they seem to be uninterested in our food supply.
The apathy seems to cross all political lines. What gives?
Why are GMO's/Frankenfoods not a top political issue?
I guess because most of the population isn't as paranoid as the greenie weenies.....
And how can anyone take a person seriously when they use childish words like "frankenfoods"?
Is this a joke????
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Thanks! I ask myself the same thing over & over....Apathy & Monsanto has too much money & power, etc. :(
