Thursday, November 25, 2010

GMO MONSANTO SEED SUPPLY GETS PUSH BY JOHN CARR

FAMOUS JOHN CARR LOCALLY TAKES THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE POSITION FAVORING GMO MONSANTO SEED SUPPLIES.

There are articles all over the press locally and internationally on the internet, both for and against, the changeover from native seeds that have evolved to suit local climatic conditions, versus the International seed supply corporations like MONSANTO that are trying to get a chokehold on the world's food supply through patents and bio engineering.
Most of the opinions and the government in Belize is for self sufficiency and staying with local native seeds. Prohibiting the importation of GMO seeds into Belize.

John tells of the travails with his local corn crop and the effect on the corn crop locally from EARWORMS, that gained entry through the tassel because of the rains. The corn crop was down about 12%. He describes in an article in the November issue No. 9 of the Ag Report, a trip by a group to Honduras recently. You can go by plane, or road ( in 8 hours ), and seeing a test plot in Honduras of GMO corn next to a plot of native corn. The native corn was effected by the earworm, whereas the GMO crop had no earworms.
The subject is a lot more complicated than that, particularly the point about International SEED Corporations attempting to put a LOCK on the world food supply.

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