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[niky]

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We already do. All the time. A lot of food crops have chemical defenses evolved to ward off pests.

As an aside, malunggay is an effective way of getting rid of tapeworms. Causes paralysis.

While protecting the environment, rotating crops to prevent soil degradation and fair labor are all worthy endeavors, in terms of health, "Organic" only tells you that any herbicides or pesticides used in cultivation is organic. Ergo: There may be toxins, but they are not "synthetic" or they have "natural" analogues. Unquote

The debate if GMO is good or bad is controversial. I understand that almost the whole of europe (incl russia) ban gmo products. In India, they are blaming monsanto for the farmer suicides. It seems that farming is expensive that's why these poor peasants could not make ends meet; so they choose the easier option, magpapakamatay na lang.

Gmo is good for a hungry nation, bahala na kung may effect sa tao in the long run. At least, busog.

European courts... and the Philippine Supreme Court, in the recent Bt Talong case, are easily swayed by "woo" science and questionable studies.

In India, farmer suicides were already very high before Monsato came in. Economic hardship is simply a fact of life. The worst you can say is that Monsato didn't help... as the farmers had to buy their seeds to stay competitive... since Monsato crops were easier to grow and hardier due to their resistance to RoundUp.

Genetic Modification possesses the potential to help end world hunger, creating more nutritious crops that are more pest resistant. Or, even better, provide a way to re-inject biodiversity into fragile modern monocultures or the original hardiness and survivability of ancestral crops into modern crops.

The problem is, the idealogues and radicals who are against GMOs don't bother to discern "good" from "bad" GMOs. To them, something like Golden Rice... which is more nutritious, has no extra toxic chemicals versus regular rice, and doesn't cost the moon (being developed by the IRRI Foundation rather than a "greedy multinational" ) is just as "evil" as Monsato grains.