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If we are to believe the packaging on gluten free bread in Whole Foods, we can assume that GMOs are something that most folks should be worried about.
But I feel like most people read "GMO" and a mental subroutine is triggered which equates the acronym with something that can be potentially much worse. GMO ends up sounding like the stuff that turned the regular-sewer-turtles into the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I know this subject has been done to death, making fun of health food nuts and their insistence on eating only foods that could have been found …show more content…
That's something else...
A terminator seed is a seed that does not produce fertile seeds. This means that anyone who buys seeds must buy the same amount the next year.
If it were to be released to farmers in third-world countries every year their crops would have to be sold to get more seeds -- some of which always fail -- and every year the profits of the farm diminish until they are nil.
Monsanto claims that terminator seeds would have never been put into production, but I am suspicious that they simply scrapped the project when people started to raise a stink about how morally corrupt an idea like that would be.
From a business standpoint a terminator seed is a great idea. It sucks all of the value out of the product. From an ethical standpoint terminator seeds are devoid of responsibility. They suck the world dry and give nothing back.
Anyway, I don't really worry about eating genetically modified foods. I worry about corporations that make their decisions based on solely business goals. That is how GMOs are deserving of criticism. People should not concern themselves with the size of the fruits, but with the fact that a company may make it impossible to make anymore fruit without their
If we are to believe the packaging on gluten free bread in Whole Foods, we can assume that GMOs are something that most folks should be worried about.
But I feel like most people read "GMO" and a mental subroutine is triggered which equates the acronym with something that can be potentially much worse. GMO ends up sounding like the stuff that turned the regular-sewer-turtles into the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I know this subject has been done to death, making fun of health food nuts and their insistence on eating only foods that could have been found …show more content…
That's something else...
A terminator seed is a seed that does not produce fertile seeds. This means that anyone who buys seeds must buy the same amount the next year.
If it were to be released to farmers in third-world countries every year their crops would have to be sold to get more seeds -- some of which always fail -- and every year the profits of the farm diminish until they are nil.
Monsanto claims that terminator seeds would have never been put into production, but I am suspicious that they simply scrapped the project when people started to raise a stink about how morally corrupt an idea like that would be.
From a business standpoint a terminator seed is a great idea. It sucks all of the value out of the product. From an ethical standpoint terminator seeds are devoid of responsibility. They suck the world dry and give nothing back.
Anyway, I don't really worry about eating genetically modified foods. I worry about corporations that make their decisions based on solely business goals. That is how GMOs are deserving of criticism. People should not concern themselves with the size of the fruits, but with the fact that a company may make it impossible to make anymore fruit without their