Reply #72: Nope, it isn't "be scared of science!" BS. [View All]

[Raksha]

Re GM seeds did not "cause" these suicides. (Maybe that's why Monsanto didn't stop.)

This is just stupid. It would be much more helpful to go after the real causes of suicides.....like poverty and ignorance.

This is just "be scared of science!" BS.

Nor is the root cause poverty and ignorance per se. As Greyhound1966 points out in post #67, the real problem is the use of "terminator seeds" (meaning they don't produce viable seed of their own) to induce widespread debt slavery, because the farmer is forced to return to Montsanto or other corporate psychopath for another year's supply of overpriced seeds, taking on still more debt burden until he eventually loses his land, and very often his life in the process.

Vandana Shiva can hardly be called "anti-science," considering that she has a Ph.D. in quantum physics and her first professional job was at a nuclear reactor. Her sister convinced her to devote her energies to sustainable agriculture, which she has been involved with for 20 years now.

You might want to read this article:
http://siu.no/magazine/layout/set/print/content/view/full/11360

It's called "The Monoculture of the Mind" and it explodes a lot of the corporate PR myths about the so-called "Green Revolution," especially with regard to India.