Forgive my huge wall of text but I just had to chuck in my 2 cents.
In Australia all GMO crops are grown in "secure facilities with a cleared safety area around the crops to prevent cross pollination".
The safety area is 3 f#@*ing meters!
Seriously, not kilometers, meters.
Needless to say but now there is GMO canola all the way up and down the main highway, and it was detected in WA, (and Japan and parts of EU) on the other side of the country from the NSW crop it originated from.
Australia is a bloody big country folks, so that's a long way.
I cant even send bloody guava seeds to WA due to quarantine laws and it being a "high risk material", but untested or evaluated in any way (as it was from the first planting,) GMO canola had made it there and was/is growing along side the highway, near non GMO canola crops.
"Limited cross-contamination and pollination has occurred, but it has been isolated and is being monitored by the relevant authorities"
I don't know about your government but I don't really trust mine to be responsible...
Regardless, there is just no need for this stuff, as there are ALREADY much hardier crops available of just about everything.
That rice for example.
The folks were growing the weaker stuff as the price was higher at market.
It was white, it had a uniform grain size, and a loose hulk making bulk processing easier.
That's economic and market forces of the big wholesalers, not any real logistic issue.
The hardier varieties grow fine, are disease resistant, nutritious, and can feed a nation with ease.
BUT, they will not get top $ in the market, and will be classed lower in the grading system.
That is the cause of the starvation issues world-wide.
There is only a market for "A grade" products, even in the third world.
"A grade" whatever is worth $80-100 a tonne
"B grade" whatever is worth $10-25 a tonne
"C grade " whatever is worth $1-5 a tonne
You can't honestly tell me that there is anything wrong with B or C grade, (and 50 years ago we had D, E, and F as well) but the big suppliers just will not buy it, and a lot of the time the cost involved with transporting, marketing and selling it, outweighs the profit of growing it.
There is the reason for mass starvation, and GMO rubbish doesn't fix that problem, it only enhances it, by increasing the standardization of food crops, and destroying the market of traditional varieties.
And even more scary is the fact that the surrounding "weed crops" become resistant to standard "safe" chemical herbicides, or the crappy GMO crops escape and become weeds themselves.
Although the origin of the Genes used in GMO crops is pretty scary stuff, lets put that aside for a minute.
The facts are this "solution" doesn't actually fix the "problem".
If the problem is starvation, just utilize B and C grade foods more, and adjust the pricing of them to match there real economic and nutritional value.
Problem solved.
If your after a way to control large populations of people and create international instability, in turn creating massive profits for BIGAGRA, then GMO is the best way to go.
You can't really fault the business model or the marketing department of Monasanto or alike.
1/3 of the population doesn't understand the risks involved, not physical or medical, just the huge economic risks I am talking about.
1/3 of the population doesn't care, and assumes someone else will sort out any issues. As long as they get their 100% visually perfect food, nice and cheap, then all is well.
1/3 can see the problem, but doesn't have a way to solve the problem by themselves, and fighting something that is 2/3 stronger than you is pretty hard going, so they eventually give up.
With a business model like theirs, then market domination is unfortunately inevitable....
GMO everything is gonna happen, and the only way to minimize the effect of a GMO dominated diet, is to grow stuff like amaranth instead of wheat and corn.
That way when your old style heirloom corn or wheat or whatever you have been growing for generations, is crossed up with the wild weed GMO varieties or your neighbours crop, or the new diseases that come from the increased reliance on those few select crops come and wipe out your older stable varieties, you will still be able to harvest a feed from your amaranth.
Forget about cancer and all those other distractions, put out by BIGAGRA to keep the agitators in the community occupied.
The $ alone should be enough of a reason to put a stop to the GMO industry.
Its not economically sensible to rely on GMO anything.
Amaranth is just an example, but you get the idea.
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