With the Hallowe’en Season upon us, I thought this might send a few shivers down a few spines.\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 Bwahahaha……<\/p>\n
“Genetically Modified Organisms will save the world!”\u00a0 If that’s true, one has to wonder why many of the companies that pioneer GMO seeds and crops spend so much time and money fighting against all efforts to label their products as either containing GMOs or are GMOs in their entirety.<\/p>\n
(see: http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/29\/us-usa-gmo-labeling-idUSKBN0FY08W20140729<\/span><\/span><\/a> )<\/p>\n Like many consumers, I like to know what is in the products that I buy; I want to know what it is that I’m putting on my body, or in this case, in my body with the food I’m consuming.\u00a0 I’m not too keen on eating a tomato that has had some genetic material from a fish that doesn’t freeze in the arctic inserted to enable said tomato withstand periods of cold temperatures, or eating an apple that has been modified to never go brown when cut open.<\/p>\n I also take issue with the idea of “Terminator Genes” engineered right into the seeds to make the plants sterile, so poor farmers are not able to save the seed and replant for the next year’s crop; necessitating expensive outlays of money every year to purchase new seed.<\/p>\n (see: http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/genetically-engineered-terminator-seeds-death-and-destruction-of-agriculture\/5319797<\/span><\/span><\/a> )<\/p>\n In many parts of the world, suffering from extreme poverty, the idea of keeping the most vulnerable in crushing debt to satisfy the greed of a few biotechnology companies is offensive.<\/p>\n GMO technologies do offer some benefits.\u00a0 In many cases, yields are higher in a smaller area; plants are engineered to be more drought tolerant (which will be more important as the world undergoes widespread water stresses); and quite often are able to give the farmer a higher income selling the increased yields of product.<\/p>\n (see: http:\/\/www.rff.org\/Publications\/WPC\/Pages\/The-Benefits-of-Genetically-Modified-Crops-and-the-Costs-of-Inefficient-Regulation<\/span><\/span><\/a>… )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the Hallowe’en Season upon us, I thought this might send a few shivers down a few spines.\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 Bwahahaha…… “Genetically Modified Organisms will save the world!”\u00a0 If that’s true, one has to wonder why many of the companies that pioneer GMO seeds and crops spend so much time and money fighting against all efforts … Continue reading GMOs: World’s Best Kept Secret<\/span>