before posting a few links, let me adress a misconception: GMOs are by and large not yielding more than conventional varieties yet their initial cost
is of course much higher and damage due to side effects is incalculable, which means only people under pressure will give in to GMO sellers. these
suicide crops in particular sound like a commercial failure in the making, so ideally, they will gain a predictably bad reputation, convincing more
and more people that GM crops suck. the downside of course is that farmers will be bankrupted, their land taken over by the banks and, eventually,
industrial agribusiness...
interestingly, the promises of GMOs have been all but broken, pest resistance, yields - you name it. i therefore hypothesize that agribusinesses are
pushing these technologies at a loss to gain control and establish a captive market, but their pockets are only so deep. they are already resorting to
desperate measures, like bribing their way through developing countries:
regarding yields and resistance:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Argentina's GM desaster in particular:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Source
Former White House agriculture expert Dr. Charles Benbrook calculates that the lost export trade and fall in farm prices caused by GM
commercialization led to an increase in annual government subsidies of an estimated $3-5 billion.
...
Crop failures
Crop failures have already occurred with GM soya and cotton plants in the developing world. This is largely due to the unpredictable behavior of these
crops. GM soya's brittleness, for example, has made it incapable of surviving heat waves. And in 2002 `massive failure' of Bt cotton was reported in
the southern states of India; consequently, in April the Indian government denied Monsanto clearance for the cultivation of its Bt cotton in India's
northern states.
considering these facts, it's no surprise that legal force is being used to push GMOs on unsuspecting and defenseless people. an occupied country is
of course the best playground you can imagine:
www.i-sis.org.uk...
[edit on 9-3-2007 by Long Lance]
