Peru Bans Monsanto & GMOs:"Once We Have Contamination, There Is No Going Back"

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35. "Maybe you should read WHY they are starving." Read??? How about first hand knowledge.

You won't like this.

In significant areas of Africa, particularly in the north, the people have depended on sorghum for generations as a staple food crop. Not for cattle, as we use it in the US, but for humans. Sorghum is a fantastic crop with low water demand, low nutrient demand, and drought resistance. And then it developed a parasitic weed that tapped directly into the sorghum plants, depleting them and reducing yields to near zero. Some plants were found to be resistant to the weed, and US and African scientists figured out why. They took the genes for that trait for resistance, transferred that trait into sorghum varieties consumed in Africa, and sorghum yields exploded back to previous levels. Starving people -- millions of them -- were not given adequate food.

There you have it. GMOs saved millions of starving people, and their starvation had nothing to do with Monsanto's business practices.

So, despise Monsanto and their predatory ways all you want, but you need to find out more about GMOs.