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When i say generates poverty... I've actually mentioned this before 4 u guys but here's a repetition i guess bc book
The rules are simple, yet cruel: a traditional (non-genetically modified) plant is started from seeds. If a farmer buys a bag of seeds, he can grow his first plants and then harvest their seeds, beginning this cycle all over again without having to buy more new seeds. This lifecycle has been sustaining life on Earth for millennia. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are different. When a farmer buys a bag of GMO seeds from the agriculture company Monsanto, Monsanto owns the patent to the future seeds that these plants create. Farmers are required to purchase new seeds each year and discard the seed from their previous year’s harvest. This forced disruption in nature is monitored by so-called ‘seed police’ who search for and prosecute the seed reusers.
In the global cotton-supply chain this ‘tool’ unfolds in the debts of poor, often illiterate farming communities, for the protection of one of the world’s wealthiest companies. In India, where much of the world’s cotton is grown, farmers become embroiled in a vicious circle of debt in order to buy GM seeds.
It is estimated that 95 per cent of all cotton grown in India is GM, and the misery it sows with its seeds includes regular spates of suicides (one farmer committed suicide every 30 minutes in India in 2009 alone).
When i say generates poverty... I've actually mentioned this before 4 u guys but here's a repetition i guess bc book
The rules are simple, yet cruel: a traditional (non-genetically modified) plant is started from seeds. If a farmer buys a bag of seeds, he can grow his first plants and then harvest their seeds, beginning this cycle all over again without having to buy more new seeds. This lifecycle has been sustaining life on Earth for millennia. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are different. When a farmer buys a bag of GMO seeds from the agriculture company Monsanto, Monsanto owns the patent to the future seeds that these plants create. Farmers are required to purchase new seeds each year and discard the seed from their previous year’s harvest. This forced disruption in nature is monitored by so-called ‘seed police’ who search for and prosecute the seed reusers.
In the global cotton-supply chain this ‘tool’ unfolds in the debts of poor, often illiterate farming communities, for the protection of one of the world’s wealthiest companies. In India, where much of the world’s cotton is grown, farmers become embroiled in a vicious circle of debt in order to buy GM seeds.
It is estimated that 95 per cent of all cotton grown in India is GM, and the misery it sows with its seeds includes regular spates of suicides (one farmer committed suicide every 30 minutes in India in 2009 alone).
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