by Hickman

Created on: July 20, 2010   Last Updated: July 21, 2010

The thought that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) plants, animals and their byproducts are designed for the ultimate benefit of anyone but private biomedical and pharmaceutical industries is simply diabolical.  How on earth have we gotten to the position of championing the manipulation and monopolization of Nature (Which, I’ll remind everyone, belongs to no one entity) for patent and profit?  In truth, the long-term disadvantages of GMOs to the world’s poor specifically, and global biodiversity in general, are so great as to cancel out the short-term benefits of GMOs to any one group of people. 

Now don’t get me mixed up with the anti-science crowd because I love Science and I am a champion of scientific progress and the advances in basic science that improve the quality of all our lives.  But, anyone with a smidgen of common sense would take the motives and actions of the bioengineering industry with a grain of salt and demand unfettered oversight into their operations and halt their efforts to ‘own’ the rights to biological life.  Do not be swayed by the slick, propaganda films cunningly produced by GMO Industry lobbyists, into thinking that these companies give a tinker’s damn about the daily human tragedy felt by the world’s hungry poor.  They don’t care about hungry people.  A GMO company, the GMO industry as a whole, cares about one thing…making money. 

A company has no conscience, owns no soul and commits no altruistic act that does not contribute to its primary objective of turning a profit for its share holders.  This is not an anti-Capitalism rant; this is simply a statement of fact.  So if we accept this simple fact, we must ask ourselves, what does the GMO Industry stand to gain by distributing genetically modified seeds to farmers in the world’s poorest nations?   Well like a drug dealer, giving away the first hit for free, the GMO Industry is simply assuring that any farmer planting GMO ‘patented’ seed will be coming back to them for their next season, and the next and the next….   Because you see, in order to protect their patented investment and ‘intellectual property’ vested in that crop seed, the GMO companies engineer their products to be sterile, incapable of propagating in the wild.  Therefore, once the grateful farmer harvests his bountiful, pest-resistant crop, he will

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