Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Would Monsanto's record in the 3rd world be much different than DuPont or any of the other major players in the Ag. world?
Yes I think it is different from other major Ag players.
It's ( IMO ) completely different trading with farmers like ourselves and some peasant farmer who you have sold cheap GMO seed to for a few years until they have no seed left that they can farm save, then jack the price up out all proportion knowing that now they have no choice. After all if I didn't want to be a farmer anymore I could always stack shelves at Tesco. They either buy the seed or watch their kids die.
Actions like this hardly help to further the GMO cause and gets far more publicity than the scientist who designed GM rice to contain vitamin A ( and donated it for free ) so that kids in the third world didn't go blind in their late teens.
I personally would be for GMO in principle but with firms like Monsanto at the helm I have to say that I'm sceptical about its advantages to us the grower.