The (Empty) Logic Behind GMO Food
GMO foods are often euphemized as “bio-technology,” which itself is intended to frame the discussion as an ignorant-luddite-versus-progress-and-literacy debate — this is totally irresponsible, false, and dangerous, especially when many wealthy, concerned nations in the world have actually banned GMO food.
Roughly 90% of corn, wheat, and soybeans are grown as GMO — so this topic affects all of us, as these 3 staple crops are the foundation of so many other foods.
Whether you’re on the fence about GMOs, whether you’re fully against them, or fully in favor (no doubt, it’s a controversial issue); this article will boil down the whole confusing debate, leaving behind only the substantial logic.
Reasons For GMO Food
These are the most common reasons people support GMOs:
- to resist drought
- to grow more food per unit of area
- to resist disease or mold
- to resist pests or insects
All of these essentially boil down to increasing crop yield. Pests, mold, and drought only can decrease yield, so avoiding decreases like these just means an attempt to increase yield — estimates come in that GMO food has increased yield by 22%.
However, globally, about half of all food humans create is literally tossed in the garbage.
So truly, any honest person trying to increase the amount of food available in the world would be compelled to focus on fixing our food-waste problem — yet here we are with immaterial corporations asking for access to our physical bodies.
The Risks of GMO Foods
First of all, having an engineer who is paid by someone who happens to be rich, tinker with the DNA of plants we eat, which can potentially affect our own DNA, is an unprecedented amount of trust to ask of the public.
GMOs have been tested for about 35 years, and proponents claim there are no adverse health effects. However the truth is, GMO food was implemented for the masses with only 10 years of testing in the 1990s, and hey —who else out there feels they have more than 35 years left to live?
Beyond that mark, we are driving blind, doing 100 in a snowstorm with 50-foot visibility, and most humans on board.
There are myriad risks of GMOs, but essentially, the risks boil down to the fact that anonymous corporations have gained the ability to instantly alter the DNA of plants and animals. This is an unthinkable amount of power, and a potential weapon of war. Indeed, attacking the food supply is exactly how the genocide against the Native Americans was in large part perpetuated. Attacking the food supply is the first, last, and most effective weapon against the body of humanity.
Monsanto is one of the leading companies pushing GMOs on the public. Monsanto (worth $40 billion) is owned by Pfizer (worth almost $200 billion, well more than any single human) so with all naiveté aside, with around $240 billion on the table, there’s enough budget to pay an army of misinformants-to-the-public (none of whom are focused on logic, and all of whom can recite hundreds of studies financed by Monsanto that swear GMOs are safe to eat — none of which studies are older than 35 years, a blink of an eye in terms of actual history). Please note that I have received no payment to write this article, and it actually cost me time to write this.
Under the pressure of actual logic, the arguments behind GMO food crumple
If you still believe GMOs are harmless, and that authorities behind GMOs are completely trustworthy to the extent that you would place the DNA of yourself, your ancestors, and your offspring, all in their hands, in exchange for a slight uptick in crop yield, then please take a moment to get literate on Monsanto’s long, bloody history, which includes accompliceship in patent war crimes.
Ultimately, there’s no doubt something very shady is going on — we literally have “Nutrition Facts” labels on our food, but no indication of whether that food is GMO. Imagine a salesman in your house, asking for the ability to change and control your DNA with no further notice to you — would you trust him more if he was wearing a Monsanto logo?
All we have is the “Non-GMO” label, branded by the Non-GMO Project; otherwise, we can safely assume most-to-all of our food contains GMOs.
In the end, we live in a world dominated by a “civilization” founded in the wake of vast genocide, and on the backs of slaves — don’t think for a second that the slavery or genocide are over, and don’t think that “authorities” are above butchering the masses to gain a leg up on the genetic dominance of the future.
“I mean come on guys, science is completely trustworthy, when was the last time technological development got out-of-control and hurt people?”
