Showing posts with label GM food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GM food. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 December 2016
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Monsanto and the Nobel Prize of Agriculture
If you're a fan of bizarre news, this one's for you.
Monsanto winning the Nobel prize equivalent for agriculture is not just expected, but also very delayed. No single company has done more to make sure that agriculture, the definitive development that made the nomadic humans independent for their food and served to make civilization possible, is now as nature intended- dependent on greater forces of existence, namely large corporations. Their benevolent 'creations' include, amongst other feats of marvel, bio-pesticide producing seeds. These seeds produce chemicals that are so effective that they kill any Insect that tries to feed on them. It is democratic, so that it practices no discrimination. Crop destroying pests, symbiotic life forms and bees that are responsible for pollinating huge percentage of crops- Monsanto ensures they all die. Who could deserve a Nobel more? (Text- Pallavi Talware)
This work by Rohan Chakravarty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
GMO, OMG!
Genetically modification of lifeforms can be given many mythological allegories that all say 'Tread with extreme caution.' The technology is Pandora's box. Yet no matter how hard it is tried, only more evil seems to appear out of it. The hope-as it might have existed at time of Mendelian genetics, is long corrupted due to prolonged association with the other evils that have come. Genetically modified food is an even more intimate connection for humans as it enters our systems. Its impact needs to be studied for generations together before some extent of validity can be attributed to it. (Text- Pallavi Talware)
Growing scientific evidence proves that GM crops are a threat to the environment, biodiversity as well as human health. Read Greenpeace's Shivani Shah's article- http://in.news.yahoo.com/blogs/thewatercooler/gm-crops-and-the-food-security-fig-leaf-095615402.html
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