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In reply to the discussion: Mexico Bans GMO Corn Effective Immediately [View all]RC
(25,592 posts)16. You're kidding, right?
People have to die before something is proven bad?. First off we do not even know how the genes in the food we eat affect us, let alone how the for profit at any cost Monsanto crops would over decades. Another is GMO crops are do not have much, if any genetic variety. Disease could wipe out a seasons crop. Those plants that are engineered to make their own pesticides and herbicides, have those chemical's in every cell of plant and are in our food supply. That does not sound very healthy to me.
It is less how many people are killed, and more how they effect the environment. Once those engineered genes are set loose in the environment and contaminate normal plants, there is no turning back. The damage is done.
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It kills small farms who can't afford to fight back when Monsanto sues them n/t
eridani
Oct 2013
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