What are the social concerns about genetically modified food?
Monsanto, for example, engineered a seed that is resistant to their herbicide. People have to buy the seeds from them but if the seed ends up on your farm through other means (wind from another farm or truck) they can sue you and confiscate your seed stocks that you and your family have spent years building for your livelihood. It doesn’t matter that you never wanted their seeds on your property and had no way of keeping it out of your crops. Self-terminating seeds are engineered to not produce viable offspring. That way people have to continue purchasing seeds every year. Half the world’s farmers. are poor and can’t afford to buy seed every season, yet poor farmers grow 15-20 percent of the world’s food and directly feed at least 1.4 billion people – 100 million in Latin America, 300 million in Africa, and one billion in Asia. These farmers depend upon saved seed and their own breeding skills in adapting other varieties for use on their often-marginal lands. These companies have even
