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

MSTeacher said:
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btw how did your roundup crop go this year?
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It's sort of hard to say. My seed germination was terrible which meant that something like 70% of the seeds didn't germinate in the roundup area (Not because of the roundup, but because of the weather) and it was the same way with my non-roundup area.

What did grow like crazy in the roundup area was my tomatoes. I had the best tomato crop i have ever seen in my life. From just 9 plants i managed to harvest around 20 gallons of roma tomatoes. Some were the size of softballs, if not larger. On those I pre-treated the soil with roundup, then fertilized with miracle grow and epsom salts. My zukes in the non-roundup portion also did insanely well, but suffered from bloom rot due to the crazy weather we had here in Ohio.
 


jacky8 said:
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
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Pesticide use has gone down, it only goes up when you include 3rd world countries who aren't using GMOs. I actually look at local, regional and worldiwde data, then talk to local farmers about their GMOs.

It's not slightly more profits, it's 50% on average for GMOs. In 1930s the US had a major drought which saw a median yearly corn yield of 25-30 bushels per acre. In 2011 the US had a drought worse than the 1930s dust bowl and the median yield was around 130 bushels per acre. Because of GMOs and other advances in farming the plants produced amazing harvests.

Not only has pesticide use, but usage of herbicide and fertilizers has gone down. We are down 10% to 20% from 2000 in terms of overall chemical usage in the United States, yet our total tonnage of crops has increased greatly. Countries like India and China have seen a increase of chemical usage by 30% to 50% and yet have only marginally higher yields. The United States is outpacing the rest of the world by leaps and bounds when it comes to farm technology.

I have yet to meet a farmer that farms on any sort of commercial level who does not like GMOs, Monsanto products and roundup. They cringe at the idea of going to non GMO products. I actually had a round table discussion with some a few months ago about what they would do if GMOs were outlawed and their response to such a move. The result wasn't good, most would go out of business due to chemical costs and reduced yields.
 
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