The average income from a family farmer is under $30,000 a year - and that's being optimistic as hell. Monstanto alone has a staff of 100, not including lawyers, and spends up to $10 million yearly in just sniffing out and suing people violating their copyrights. It wouldn't be David vs Goliath - it'd be Ant vs Bulldozer. Farmers settle even though they are in the right because they simply cannot fight a system where even the highest court is against them.   See 2 other replies

Monsanto doesn't do interviews. Anyone who settles with them can't talk about it. They don't want you to know what's going on, because if you did, you might not wanna eat it. GM labeling is fiercely opposed because that'd be one more thing people would choose to not buy. Look what happened to BGH milk - label it as something other than natural milk and people don't buy it. Put "Genetically modified" in front of all the high fructose corn syrup out there and maybe some people wouldn't buy either coke or pepsi anymore, and just get a glass of tap water.   See 9 other replies

From what little I know it seems your theory that "poor people aren't starving because there isn't enough food, they're starving because they don't have enough money" is wrong.People don't have enough food because it is difficult to get food to everyone who needs it due to war and inability logistically to transport the food. There is enough food aid to feed all the people in the world (I gather) but it is a difficult thing to accomplish.Therefore it is silly to say that if you make food plentiful then you remove all incentive for the agriculture to produce it. It already is that plentiful. If you look at just the US, we have managed to feed everyone who needs food, essentially. That is totally possible for the entire world if we make sure to either move people out of inarable areas (unfarmable) or help provide them with food and solve the logistical problems. This will probably include creating a sustainable system of farming as well as making sure we control our population so that we can continue to support everyone on the planet in harmony with the natural/wild world.   See 72 other replies

As with any other product, overproduction is always a problem. If you produce too much of any given crop, you reduce the value of that crop. At some point, the value of the crop does not match the value of the investment, and farmers are losing time and money. Enter subsidized crops. The US government pays farmers to grow certain crops that might otherwise not be profitable enough to stand on their own. These include Wheat, corn, and soybeans.This brings me to my point...poor people aren't starving because there isn't enough food, they're starving because they don't have any money to pay for said food. I don't agree with the statement that growing organic food is irresponsible, because for a farmer, growing a smaller crop of chemical free food means he can charge more for the crop. Not only is there less yield, but it is likely more labor intensive.Don't get me wrong, it would be great if science could enable us to finally feed every hungry mouth. Not going to happen...ever. If food were to be cheap and plentiful enough for even the poor to enjoy it, then you remove all incentive for the agriculture industry to continue to produce it. And if that happens then food becomes expensive and hard to come by again.   See 72 other replies

Sorry but I don't see anything simple about this. At this point in time, you simply do not know anymore if the food that you buy at the local farmer's market has not already been "infected" with GE seeds. Over the past decade, I've been watching docs like this and the more I see, the more I feel we are all going to become slaves. We are popping pills, staying alive and reproducing at staggering rates, diluting our gene pool while the bugs and wildlife we spray continue getting stronger as do the bacteria and viruses we fight against with vaccines and antibiotics. We will not survive and the sad part is that we will probably pull the trigger ourselves before the super plague does. Sorry to be such a doom sayer. Have a wonderful day.   See 2 other replies

The majority of organic food is grown in China. Most small farms use pesticides because it is cheaper.   See 97 other replies