6. Ian Thorpe “The political argument against GM in Europe is that because GM crops are sterile, only companies that operate GM processing plants can produce seed crops, farmers cannot lay aside a portion of their crop for next year’s seed. There is no alternative to buying seed from the GM technology companies. This concentrates too much power in the hands of a few corporations that have already shown in the developing world they have no qualms about threatening to withold seed and cause famine in order to hold governments to ransom.”
Ah yes. Too much power in the hands of the corporations.
Imagine walking into an apothocary in 1800. The local pharmacist, like your farmer, made his own compounds from simple ingredients. Opium, arsenic, mercury, a host of dubious and inneffective plant derivitives… None of it worked, except the opiates, but still no evil corporations dominating the industry and forcing pharmacists to buy their vastly superior products.
I think the EU should ban all products made by the handful of evil corporations dominating the pharmaceudical industry today and return to those simpler times.
Same for the handful of corporations that produce your vehicles, cell phones, televisions, fuel and energy, the computers and software we are using right now, the tractor your farmer uses… Think about how many things in your life are supplied by some sort of self supporting cottage industry as you imagine agriculture to be. Its gonna be a short list.
What a bunch of spoiled children you all are. You have never watched your plants die in the field knowing that your family will likely starve this winter. You would not survive one week outside of your pampered existance without some product made in an industry dominated by a handful of corporations “forcing” you to buy their products.
DDT! Global Warming! GM foods!
Yeah notice in all those cases its the poor Africans and Asians who end up dead. You will be fine.
Spindok
