/ck/ - Food & Cooking

hahahaha at all the disinfo in this thread.

>>4391900
>GM crops ... help reduce the reliance on excessive herbicides
What is Monsanto's #1 seed product and #1 chemical product? "Roundup Ready" soybeans and RoundUp herbicide. Seeds that are specifically designed to be used in combination with regular applications of herbicide.
>increase resilience to droughts
name one Monsanto seed that has increased resistance to drought. GM seeds are designed for monoculture industrial farming, not traditional dryland farming where drought resistance is needed. Are RoundUp soybeans drought resistant? Nope. New Leaf potatoes? Nope.
In fact all GM crops are utterly dependent on massive chemical inputs, unlike the traditional landrace varieties they are squeezing out.
Surprise surprise, a seed variety developed in a Monsanto lab to be sold to all of Africa isn't as hardy as the 100's of local cultivars that adapted to the local climates over generations.

>>4391859
>You are a heartless coward that wants people in developing countries to starve because new science is confusing and scary to you.
You are an ignorant dupe who bought into the bullshit that GM crops were meant for the poor.
"Golden" rice? How much of that is grown compared to RoundUp soybeans?

Btw, silly shills, we have Monsanto to thank for a nbew class of "superweeds" that has developed herbicide resistance thanks to overapplication of RoundUp in RoundUp crop fields. And we also have Monsanto to thank for insects gaining resistance to Bt in fields of Bt corn and potatoes.
Good job, Monsanto! Breeding stronger insects to make the shareholders rich!