Reply #58: The only thing I can tell which actually [View All]

[Ms. Toad]

has to do with genetic modification is this:

"When crops failed in the past, farmers could still save seeds and replant them the following year.

But with GM seeds they cannot do this. That's because GM seeds contain so- called 'terminator technology', meaning that they have been genetically modified so that the resulting crops do not produce viable seeds of their own."

The rest of (and far bigger problem) has to do with farmers being coerced into taking large loans to buy something they don't need. I would not call this GM genocide - it could just as easily have been fancy irrigation systems that were a poor match for the land they were farming (or fancy air conditioned mega-machines like so many US farmers were convinced they needed).

Family farming (in the US and elsewhere) provides not a whole lot above subsistence level income - even though farmers often have capital (the land they farm) that makes farm equipment vendors, fancy seed salesmen, fertilizer salesmen, etc. drool. It's a bad combination - people living on the edge but having capital that can secure debt - and corporations with convincing/coercive salesmen.