Years of observation and actually growing crops and actually farming and actually working with dirt, crops, weeds, and so forth leads a person to the conclusions they have.
Watching your crop destroyed by weeds or insects just plain sucks.
Using the harsher herbicides or the really harsh insecticides is not good for me. Might not be good for the environment. I farm, so I do what I have to do to get a crop. But, the gmo crops are so much dp safer for me, I can use so much safer herbicides or no dangerous insecticides that it is a -no brainer- to use gmo crops.
Very little of my crops are eaten directly by the public anyhow. It gets run through an ethanol plant (another of your favorites....) and fed to livestock.
Gmo is safer and cheaper for me, it offers me a much more stable crop.
I have not seen a readable downside to them?
Many theories and scare tactics are offered by people who don't farm, I find those do not hold up to how these gmo products work or the realities of how real farming operates. If this is calling people stupid or narrow minded, I need to move forward with what I know and experience. When I know better, how am I supposed to accept such misinformation?
Most farmers hate the monopolies of the big seed and chemical companies, but it is what we have to work with. I buy most of my gmo seed from a little seed grower 25 miles from me, the owner and tractor dip river and seed bigger and his children are the ones that help load my pickup and write out my bill. The glyphosate I buy is often a generic that has nothing to do with Monsanto.
We live in a society that is moving into a 'like me' social structure, the mob mentality. Get on Facebook and 'like' the same thing as everyone else and now you are part of the in, hip, crowd! Whooo whee.
So, folks make up junk, put it on the importer net, either you 'like p' it and are part of the in crowd, or you are some sort of square.....
Whatever, I never much cared about the 'in' crowd.
Gmo is a whole lot safer down on the farm than without it. Organic is stressful to the environment and risks crop failures to weed and insect infestations. That is how it is, doesn't matter what you read on the Internet by a Frenchman.
But I agree with you, people will believe what they believe, and the whole gmo/ organic stuff is much more like a religion by those who believe and worship it than any sort of science.
And we can't ever win a religious argument, even using science. Perhaps especially trying to use science.
Organic/ non gmo is a fad. Once people are hungry, there is only one problem in the world. We in the USA and other countries are so spoiled we get to argue over such issues as this, as if there is any merit to it.
Whatever.
I need to go finish some planting. So folks can pf get fed in 2017 or 2018. The seed I'm putting in the ground now will get some shipped to China by then, and some will be run through hogs, cattle, or dairy to feed you about then.
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