Sustainable Living: Food Part 3 - GM Foods

About Dave

Dave Maynard - I'm a native son of western Montana, where I grew up on the edge of town when towns in Montana actually had an edge. I moved to Washington state at 26 in an effort to find a career in acting, which evolved into a niche in technical theatre and scenery construction, which after 14 years morphed into starting a one-man carpentry business, which has held steady for the last 7 years. I work well with others, but prefer to figure things out for myself. I like reading poetry when my spirit is hungry, and Harper's Magazine when my intellect is. I applaud telling truth to power, and abhor willfull ignorance and any kind of squandering. I hope that when everything settles, I can end up mattering...even a little.

Sunday, 23 March 2008

Food Part 3 - GM Foods - by Robb

Genetically Modified crops have nothing to do with feeding the world and everything to do with corporate profit through control of our food supply. Global hunger is caused by politics, war, and money not lack of supply. Green peace has loads of information regarding the threat from unsustainable farming practices and GM Foods. Rather than cut and paste from their excellent website I refer you directly to the source.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/gm/solutions

Do a search for "7-deadly-sins.pdf", a nice expose' about Monsanto. Also the report "cool-farming-full-report.pdf" is worth having a look at as it deals with agriculture and global warming.

One aspect of this I'd like to discuss briefly is the link between meat and GM crops. Though England and much of Europe tightly restricts the growing of GM crops they don't seem to have any compunction about importing the food produced. The majority of factory farmed livestock in the UK is fed with GM feedstock. Another reason to reduce your intake of meat?

With many developing countries rushing to grow crops for biofuel, the problems of hunger and the profits of Monsanto are set to soar.