Hi Harald, Thank you for pointing out the need to alter our methods of farming so that we can get better yields without GMO. As for the issue of cancer I have yet to see a scientific paper that presents GMO as a cancer-causing agent. The only study done in France was seriously flawed as I have reported several times in postings here. And there doesn’t seem to be a difference in my mind between selective breeding using cross pollination and grafting of plant stocks and grafting genes into the DNA of a cell to improve the quality of a plant being grown. And as for genetic migration between species, this has been happening among plants since they first evolved. All we humans are doing now is replicating what nature has shown us is possible.

What burns me about Monsanto is the culture of predatory dominance they exert on agribusiness. If they were to create an open source scientific approach to genome research, considering the billions they already make from the many chemicals they patent and produce then all would benefit. I think have the resistance to GMO comes as a reaction to Monsanto, Dupont, BASF and others who have made the growing of modified basic food staple crops into a quasi-monopoly in which they control what farmers grow, where they grow it, and limit the farmers ability to do any experimenting on their own (the latter the traditional way we always selected promising varieties of plants for seeding, growing and harvesting).

The answer to build up the soil again through no-till farming, permaculture practices and holistic grazing of live stock. This is not a problem. It only has to be done.

Another big issue is of course the profit based monetary system, which drives companies like Monsanto and more to patent GMO seeds and a lot of other practices that are not necessary for anything else than monetary profit. This research is not good for people or the planet. The above mentioned is what we need. Not GMO. GMO is not necessary.

Thus, another view on ‘economy’ is paramount. A global resource based economy can be one solution. http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.com