GMO?

Watch: Real Time with Bill Maher 22 june 2012 in HD GMOs (Genetically Modified Foods)

This is a complicated business ethics issue because Monsanto claims that it is helping the 
world by supplying generically modified seeds that result in more food with increased nutritional value, which is what we need. In the book Hot, Flat and Crowded, Friedman states that the population is only increasing.  So how are we going to feed all these people? On the order hand, GMOs are dangerous because they can impact our health, environment, and our future in a way that is unknown at the current time. In addition, the genetically modified crops are seen as Monsanto's intellectual property, which means that once farmers plant GM crops they need to always come back to Monsanto. This would keep the profit on the company's hand challenging the true meaning of "sustainable agriculture". Companies' marketing strategy is to not tell if a product contains GMOs or not. They take this position in order "to protect consumers" since consumers don't know the actual negative results of GMOs and the term Genetically Modified remind us of people with three arms and one eye. That is true, but then if GMOs are not bad for our health why can't we have the full disclosure on products' labels?  The bottom line is that we, as consumers, should be able to know what are we buying and make our on decision on whether to purchase a food that contains GMOs or not. 



Source:nutribulletblog.com