14 year old anti-GMO activist pawns Kevin O’Leary

[Fatbat]

It is impossible to feed the world without GMO's.

That's rubbish. The world is perfectly capable of feeding everyone several times over without GMOs. There are many reasons why people go hungry, inefficiencies and corruption in the production and distribution systems along with waste, that GMOs aren't going to fix.

 

[EricVonDoobie]

this is hardly pawning Kevin O'Leary.

Didn't see any pawning

Y'all niggas been pwned.

 

[Your_Pal]

That's rubbish. The world is perfectly capable of feeding everyone several times over without GMOs. There are many reasons why people go hungry, inefficiencies and corruption in the production and distribution systems along with waste, that GMOs aren't going to fix.

Dude from where you are going to get the milk, chickens, rice and wheat to feed the entire world specially countries like China and India?

Do you think by growing organically we can feed the world? Must be joking if you think of it.

 

[drave]

Do you think by growing organically we can feed the world?

we'll let them know its christmastime again.

 

[bambambam]

Damn this girl got huge potential!

 

[bambambam]

btw, put some scientists on this girl. Darwin must be proud on her...

 

[BigWill]

Look for companies that sell organic and non GMO foods,

Just FYI Organic can still be GMO.

If people were to suddenly stop buying GMO's you could say goodbye to 90% of our crops, rates for food would surge, possible droughts, a lot of shit could happen. Every single corn field in nebraska uses a hybrid seed.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Too bad the girl wasn't 20 or so. Then O'Leary would have gotten all frustrated, and let her have it, like he does on Dragons Den. That would have been far more entertaining than this.

 

[Fatbat]

Dude from where you are going to get the milk, chickens, rice and wheat to feed the entire world specially countries like China and India?

Do you think by growing organically we can feed the world? Must be joking if you think of it.

As Will pointed out, growing organically has nothing to do with GMOs.

Though animals are eating GMO feed, there is no genetically modified livestock on the market yet so your argument about chickens and milk is moot. As for rice, we've had no problems growing more than enough to feed the world up to this point without doing anything special to it.

As I said before, the problems with the word's food supplies have little to do with GMOs.

If people were to suddenly stop buying GMO's you could say goodbye to 90% of our crops, rates for food would surge, possible droughts, a lot of shit could happen. Every single corn field in nebraska uses a hybrid seed.

GMOs can control the weather now? Is there anything they can't do?!

Let's not forget that GMOs have only been on the market for less than 20 years and suddenly everyone is freaking out and saying we can't possibly live without them. Keep in mind also that the majority of GMO crops are grown exclusively in the US, while the majority of the rest of the world continues growing using traditional methods.

Those traditional methods involve "seed saving", keeping a bit of seed each harvest so that they can be grown into next seasons' crop. Something that farmers have been doing since the beginning of agriculture. Meanwhile farmers are forbidden to save patented GMO seed, meaning they can't grow a crop from the previous crop's seeds. If they do, they are sued by Monsanto for patent infringement. Instead they are forced to buy new engineered seeds each year from the manufacturer at more than double the cost of non GMO seeds.

You can bet Monsanto and it's minions are chomping at the bit to get GMO seeds into the hands of every third world farmer so that they can destroy those traditional methods of farming, destroy any diversity of plant variety (another HUGE issue for another post), making the whole word dependent on their monopoly over our food source.

It's wrong on so many levels and has very little to do with producing enough food to feed everyone.

 

[JoeFerguson]

So there is some hope for today's youth!

 

[stefanie]

Just FYI Organic can still be GMO.

"No matter where it was grown, if a product has the USDA Organic label on it, it wasn’t produced with GMOs." Source: USDA Blog

Realistically, I'm sure there's plenty of contamination from non-organic/GMO sources, but the rule is that it's supposed to be free of it. If you feel compelled to avoid as much GMO food as possible, buying organic is a good place to start.

 

[jacky8]

High disease resistance
Low water consumption
Low pesticide requirements
High yields (and profits to farmers)

These are claims, not the reality.

There is not high disease resistance over time. It just gives rise to super weeds.

Pesticide use has actually gone up. Go look it up

High yields - maybe, but why the fuck would you prefer slightly more profits over something natural and healthy? These idiots are also never calculating the environmental cost of GMOs which is huge. Huge math fail all over the place.

GMO shit will stay in your food cycle for decades.

Earn a few more pennies but fuck mother nature, say hello to the glorious illnesses including genetic defects for your grand children.

We are greedy idiots.

Kevin is a greedy corporate scumbag rooting for Monsanto, so is Bill Gates

 

[jacky8]

The positives to making and testing GMOs far outweigh the negatives

perhaps you consider some greater short term profits as "far outweighing the negatives" but the LOSSES in terms of long term environment and health cost far exceed any profit some scumbag corporates are making.

Math fail. Long term planning fail. Sustainability fail

 

[jacky8]

Dude from where you are going to get the milk, chickens, rice and wheat to feed the entire world specially countries like China and India?

Do you think by growing organically we can feed the world? Must be joking if you think of it.

Eat less, eat better, purer food.

Most of that GM soya and corn is for feeding animals slaughter houses which is again cruel and wrong for so called civilized humans.

People do not have to make meat a part of their daily diets. It can be just like the old times when meat was just consumed according to availability nearby, not like the current year-round supply from slaughter houses.

If the population is growing too fast, perhaps governments should stop encouraging population growth.

It should be OK to have a negative population growth.

If it results in slow economic growth, so what.

Greed is the root cause of all this shit we face.

 

[jacky8]

The only problem with her position is "mandatory" labeling, which insists the government use force, which is immoral and ineffective.

How else can you make these 50 billion dollar companies give a fuck about environmental sustainability and poor peoples health?

All they care about is their profit.

A million people might die, they won't blink an eye

Death isn't even that bad if it is fast, such as with a bullet but when one dies bit by bit, it really sucks. You would then wish you would have spoken out against corporate scumbags

 

[BigWill]

As Will pointed out, growing organically has nothing to do with GMOs.

Farmers don't rely on rain to irrigate their crops. Irrigation comes from reservoirs or lakes. Its not un common for the larger ones to drop over 10 feet. GMO's take way less water. So... If you have to use 50% more water in short notice you are going to run into some major problems.

About half of my cousins are farmers...

 

[drave]

How else can you make these 50 billion dollar companies give a fuck about environmental sustainability and poor peoples health?

All they care about is their profit.

A million people might die, they won't blink an eye

Death isn't even that bad if it is fast, such as with a bullet but when one dies bit by bit, it really sucks. You would then wish you would have spoken out against corporate scumbags

ah, the generic libby manifesto. again. that's really interestiyawn.

 

[Your_Pal]

As Will pointed out, growing organically has nothing to do with GMOs.

Though animals are eating GMO feed, there is no genetically modified livestock on the market yet so your argument about chickens and milk is moot. As for rice, we've had no problems growing more than enough to feed the world up to this point without doing anything special to it.

As I said before, the problems with the word's food supplies have little to do with GMOs.



GMOs can control the weather now? Is there anything they can't do?!

Let's not forget that GMOs have only been on the market for less than 20 years and suddenly everyone is freaking out and saying we can't possibly live without them. Keep in mind also that the majority of GMO crops are grown exclusively in the US, while the majority of the rest of the world continues growing using traditional methods.

Those traditional methods involve "seed saving", keeping a bit of seed each harvest so that they can be grown into next seasons' crop. Something that farmers have been doing since the beginning of agriculture. Meanwhile farmers are forbidden to save patented GMO seed, meaning they can't grow a crop from the previous crop's seeds. If they do, they are sued by Monsanto for patent infringement. Instead they are forced to buy new engineered seeds each year from the manufacturer at more than double the cost of non GMO seeds.

You can bet Monsanto and it's minions are chomping at the bit to get GMO seeds into the hands of every third world farmer so that they can destroy those traditional methods of farming, destroy any diversity of plant variety (another HUGE issue for another post), making the whole word dependent on their monopoly over our food source.

It's wrong on so many levels and has very little to do with producing enough food to feed everyone.

LOL when did Will said that growing organically had nothing to do with GMO's? He just said that Organic can still be GMO's which actually favors my statement that it is tough to feed today's world without GMO's.

I'm living in a world where I am surrounded by tons of farms in 20 Miles radius. I myself have a farm house which I lease to farmers.

Believe me 90% of the shit sold in markets are GMO's and without GMO's it is impossible to feed our requirements.

 

[Fatbat]

Farmers don't rely on rain to irrigate their crops. Irrigation comes from reservoirs or lakes. Its not un common for the larger ones to drop over 10 feet. GMO's take way less water. So... If you have to use 50% more water in short notice you are going to run into some major problems.

I know where irrigation comes from, and that water typically originates from the sky.

Somehow we managed to produce bountiful crops before GMOs, yet now you're saying it's impossible to get by without them?

LOL when did Will said that growing organically had nothing to do with GMO's? He just said that Organic can still be GMO's which actually favors my statement that it is tough to feed today's world without GMO's.

You're right, he didn't specifically say that. He did say organic can still be GMO, which infers that can also not be GMO. One isn't dependent on the other and you also don't have to grow organically if you're not growing GMO. That doesn't say anything about our capacity to feed the world, with or without GMOs, however.

Believe me 90% of the shit sold in markets are GMO's and without GMO's it is impossible to feed our requirements.

Really? How did we manage before GM crops, which have only been around for a small number of years? How has (India I presume) fared since Monsanto rolled into town? From what I've read, things haven't been so rosey.

 

[EvilPenguin]

About half of my cousins are farmers...