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The farmers then give their products to the manufacturers, who represent the bottleneck of the food system (21). “The ten largest companies control half of the world’s seed supply. …Ten firms control 90% of the nearly $38.6 billion pesticide markets (111-112).” Monsanto, being one of the ten companies that controls the world’s seed supply, is a company that has patents on all of its seeds and products. It produces genetically modified crops that are resistant to its own pesticides and herbicides, so that when a pesticide or herbicide is sprayed and it destroys all plants, the Monsanto seed survives because of its resistance. The reason that Monsanto is able to stay in business is because of the economic benefit it poses for the farmers. They are able to produce their crops at a much higher yield because they are losing less of their crops to pests. This higher yield results in lower costs for the consumers as well (Planes). As discussed

The world may be in danger of what Monsanto puts on families dinner tables. According to Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele’s article: Monsanto’s harvest of fear “Monsanto’s is the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has 674 biotechnology patents”. 90% of the GMO’s in the world belong to Monsanto. The world has inherited Monsanto’s GMO’s in North and South America, Asia and Australia. Monsanto will eventually own food if consumers continue purchasing his GM products this reason being that Monsanto modifies its crops in order to make harvesting faster and easier making it more convenient to arrive on your dinner tables faster.

Farming policy of seed patenting should be abolished, and farmers should have the right to reuse seeds. The farming polices like seed patenting is eliminating ancient farming practices and controlling the food supply and the farmers, as journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele revealed “Whoever provides the world’s seeds controls the world’s food supply” (165). Congress and seeds industries like Monsanto should not have the power to change the farming policies. The ancient farming practices of saving seeds from season to season is diminishing due to farmers buying seeds from Monsanto. Monsanto prohibits farmers to save seeds from their harvest and replant those seeds. Monsanto’s genetically modified (G.M.) seeds, that resist to its

The issue of genetically modified foods, is Farmers can't harvest seeds. Fundamentally, farming is a simple process: plant seeds, grow crops, harvest crops, and gather seeds from the plants for the next season. Sadly, GMO companies like Monsanto take this last step away from farmers and raise expenses even futher by forcing the farmers to continually buy the premium-priced GM eeds every growing season. In fact, as was shiwn in the Bowman v. Monsanto court case, it is illegal in the US for someone growing a Monsanto crop to harvest the seeds and use them later. The Nowman case went all the way to the unanimously found guilty of patent infringement after he purchased and used second generation Monsanto seeds.

Most farms in the U.S. are controlled by Monsanto and other GMO companies. If they are controlled by Monsanto they are strictly supervised. They have no freedom to farm as they please because they can get sued by Monsanto. A farmer using Monsanto seeds signs a "Technology Agreement"

“You have to eat your vegetables sweetie; they’re good for you. They’ll make you grow big and strong,” is what Bella’s mother always tells her. What Bella’s mother doesn’t know is that the vegetables that are supposed to be benefitting the health of her daughter, are slowly being replaced by vegetables contaminated with glyphosate, a key component in the poison napalm which was used during the Vietnam War. The company responsible for the poisonous defoliant used on veggies that children like Bella need for development is Monsanto. The Monsanto corporation is a hidden danger to our society and the united states needs to shut it down immediately for its use of chemical weapons in other countries as well as its government authorized secret use

John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution states that “if genetically engineered plants were designed to reverse world hunger, you would expect them to bring higher yields. But there is increasing evidence that they do just the opposite”. Numerous studies have shown that GM crops do not have a higher yield production, but in fact have at times shown a lower outcome. In 2000, “research done by the University of Nebraska found the yields of GE soybeans were six to eleven percent lower than conventional plants” (Robbins). Evidence that GM foods are not the answer to world hunger continues to pile up. Former US EPA and US FDA biotech specialist Dr. Doug Gurian-Sherman acknowledges that GM crops are not beneficial to solving world hunger: “as of this year [2008], there are no commercialized GM crops that inherently increase yield. Similarly, there are no GM crops on the market that were engineered to resist drought, reduce fertilizer pollution or save soil. Not one” (“10 Reasons Why we don’t Need GM Foods”). Genetically modified corn is a product that has been modified to the extreme in recent years. Here, you can clearly see the physical differences between organic and GM corn. In response to Monsanto’s statement, eighteen African delegates clearly objected, noting that it would undermine their capacity to feed

There are concerns that the introduction of GM crops in developing countries might lead to a reduction in biodiversity, particularly in areas where a crop originated and a wide range of natural genetic variation is found. There might also be unexpected consequences of gene transfer (between plants, for example an uncontrollable ‘escape’ of genes into neighbouring wild plants by pollen. There are also concerns that pests or weeds could acquire resistance to crops. Therefore their effectiveness is questioned and would probably hinder the development process,

Agriculture is a booming business. Farmers make a living planting, harvesting, and selling vegetables and milk to consumers. On the surface, it appears as if farmers have it made, yet deep down they live in fear. Many companies who sell different products to farmers will try to blackmail the farmers who refuse their product. These products are useful, but if some farmers completely refute the product it may cause an uproar in the agricultural business.

Today’s world is all about how we can be seen as helping others, or how one county is offering support to those in need of it. When Jeremy Seifert starting his work on his film GMO-OMG (Seifert, 2013), the film started by asking people the simple question do they eat GMO. The film goes through the first 2 min of just people responses to that question and it is amazing how people were so unware of what they were eating. GMO are genetically modified organism which as the movie explains there are two primary categories of GMOs, the pesticide producer, and Herbicide resisters (Seifert, 2013) which help farmers to grow crops by making them resistant to bugs or weeds that would have destroyed crops in the past. Monsanto is one of the largest GMO producers of a corn seed that would allow for crops to grow with natural resistant to herbicide and insects. When Jeremy went to Africa to research why some of the locals were rejecting the Monsanto seeds because they said that you could only plant them once and then you would be forever in need of the replace seeds rather than just reusing seeds from the fully grown plants. The Haitian people believed that the seeds of life are a common inheritance of all humanity (Seifert, 2013).

Companies, like Monsanto will come after small farms and sue them for more than they can pay if they find out they are using even a small portion of GM crops in their fields, even if by accident” (Fitzgerald). Approximately 2,400 farmers in 19 states through 2006 were sued and spied upon for alleged “seed piracy”, Monsanto has an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers who are caught with different seed. (Monsanto).

Though, GMO is a very controversial debate it has benefited farmers economically. According to report in 2014 the farmers gained an average of $3.59 for each dollar invested in GM crop seeds. In developing countries like South and Latin America, Africa and Asia farmers here earned more profits than the developed countries. They earned an average of $4.42 for each dollar invested on the controversial crops. Because of economic success from growing genetically engineered plants resulted from insect resistant crops like those engineered to produce the Bt insecticide- a protein derived from Bacillus thruingiensis, which is also used for organic farming in a topical spray application. Ever since, the farmers adopting the GM technology for farming they saw a spectacular increase in their yields due to reduced pest infections on plants from insect resistant cotton and corn. According to report corn farmers profited 13 percent increase in yields from insect resistant technology, while cotton farmers experienced more than 17 percent yield gains as compared to natural farming. As

For example, in India the farmer suicide rate has steadily been rising since the implementation of hybrid seeds into the market. Before hybrid seeds were available farmers in India used seeds that they had saved from previous plants, but with hybrid seeds that was no longer an option. The farmers had to buy new seeds each year and the hybrids required more costly pesticides as well, so the farmers costs continued to rise (GMO Inside). Countries such as India are in a vulnerable position when it comes to food security, so many believe it to be unwise to encourage them to implement GMO’s which may have unseen risks and problems in the future (Journal International De Bioéthique). Around 2002 Bt cotton seeds arrived in India promising higher output and earnings. However Bt cotton requires more water and fertilizer that previous seed hybrids, but many of the farmers do not have an irrigation system and rely on rain. Many of them also do not have enough money for extra fertilizer, so by the time the rain arrives many of the crops have already started to wither. Farmers also have to pay a royalty fee to Monsanto to plan the Bt cotton. This eventually led to large debts for many farmers and the suicide rate continued to increase (GMO Inside). A focus on GMO’s in developing countries may also

In the article ‘India Rejects First GM Vegetable, Hampering Monsanto’ by Jay Shankar and Thomas Kutty Abraham, they discuss how India’s first GMO called bt brinjal (genetically modified eggplant) is rejected by the Indian government due to the fact that there are potential threats to the GMO. GMO’s are genetically modified organisms that are made so that they can enhance the original organism in various ways. The Indian government wants to make sure that they have food security, especially with GMO’s, so they rejected the bt brinjal because they felt that there weren’t enough tests run on the organism. Also, they’re worried because farmers don’t take many precautions when putting pesticides on the plants, which puts them at risk. After making sure that bt brinjal is safe, India needs to keep the GMO’s so that they’ll be able to feed their growing population and to save money.

Additionally, big business controls the farmers by capitalizing on widely used commodities. For example, the company Monsanto which is based in St. Louis, Missouri protects its dominance over the genetically modified crops such as the soy bean with the use of a patent law. Because of this, Monsanto’s patented genes “account for 95 percent of all soy beans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S.,” (Associated Press). Although genetically modifying the soy bean crop has made it more readily available and more sustainable, this comes at a high price to farmers. Monsanto continues to raise their prices, which forces farmers to accrue even more debt, and there is no sign of the rise in the seed prices stopping. Since a lot of the farmers are under contract with Monsanto, there is nothing they can do about this unethical policy in fear of losing their job.