1507, excellent point Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Mon May-10-04 11:01 AM
>(and that "feeding all the hungry people" argument is pretty >redundant; as the Guardian article pointed out, we already >have enough food in the world to feed everyone. the >problems are with economic systems + greed of Western >countries, not the lack of food...)
And that shit with the GM crops being designed to not produce viable seeds so the farmers have to keep re-buying seed from the company every year, doesn't exactly strike me as designed for the humanitarian purpose of feeding the starving masses.
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