Frances Moore Lappe, Vandana Shiva Blast Award for GMO Scientists

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By Andrea Germanos

Source: Common Dreams

Sunday, June 30, 2013

"In fact, to take advantage of these seeds, small farmers who are among the hungriest people in the world, have to take out loans to buy the costly products that are required—the seeds, the fertilizers... and the pesticides that are required" for the GMO seeds.

"So in fact the honorees ... are actually contributing the problems that keep us locked... in hundreds of millions of people in a world where there is plenty of food," concluded Lappe.

The World Food Prize explained that the GMO work by the new winners has "contributed significantly to increasing the quantity and availability of food."

Not so, says Shiva.

"The evidence is so clear," she says, that "GMOs have not increased production, there's a failure to yield." In addition, "they have not reduced use of chemicals. Worse, they have increased the use of chemicals because they have created superpests and superweeds."

Full Article: http://www.zcommunications.org/frances-moore-lappe-vandana-shiva-blast-award-for-gmo-scientists-by-andrea-germanos

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1. Good for them.

[marmar]

2. k/r

[Overseas]

3. K&R. GMOs have not lived up to the hype. They're very expensive.

And they don't increase production over the long term. But they sure do increase Monsanto's revenue streams.