I got into a debate on a message board (I know big mistake, the internet message boards are renowned for housing the truly stupid) about GMO's.While I do not have extensive knowledge of the topic, I do know how they affect my immediate family.
My husband sells things like BT corn. (genetically modified) My father, father in law and brother plant things like BT corn, as do the large majority of farmers in these parts. The genetic modification given to corn and soybeans is to add desirable traits; things like increased yield, drought resistance, disease resistance. These are good things. These are the things that anti-GMO activists have no clue about. They visualize a mad scientist with a syringe injecting some frankenfood quality directly into their tomatoes in the back room of a warehouse. I think these are the same people who think that their vegetables, fruits and meat are manufactured and magically appear in the back room of their local market. (I think of the lady who called the 800 number on the back of her canned tomatoes to complain that she had found a stem in the can.)
I was trying to convey my point that the large majority of GMO's are things that I mentioned above, to the village idiot that called me out and I stated, "Things like kidnapping pedophiles getting out of jail early, $4 a gallon gas and mental health care worry me more than whether or not the corn in my corn chips had the drought resistant GMO in it." She in turn said, "We want farmers who care more about health than profit."
GET THE FUCK OUT...seriously bitch, how do I sell that one to the mortgage lender or the tuition office? I can see it now, "Oh, sorry NWMSU, I am not supposed to make a profit, as a farmer, I am only to be concerned about health, so I will pay the tuition bill with...health?" THUD...
I had to just shut my phone off and walk away. Do these fucktards not remember that last year we had a drought, second only to the "dustbowl" of the 1930's? Because of GMO's that make crops drought resistant, we were able to have somewhat of a harvest because, like my little scenario I laid out earlier, the bank still needs paid for the thousands of dollars of inputs that went into the crop. The mortgage still needs paid and the kids still need fed and contrary to what the village idiot thinks, you have to turn a profit to do that.
Do the fucktards also not realize that we are not just catering to their needs and wants and desires? We, as farmers, are called on to feed the WORLD. I seriously doubt the starving people in Haiti who get our packages of Meals from the Heartland could give two shits whether or not the soybeans used to make the soy protein meal was RoundUp Ready.
We do not farm the way we did 30, 40 or 50 years ago. We do not teach, practice medicine, or conduct ANY business in the same fashion as the generations before us did. We also do not have the population we had 30, 40 or 50 years ago. The population continues to boom and we continue to need more yields to feed the growing populous. Pray tell village fucktard...with urban sprawl and less farmland available, how are we to feed more people unless we have genetically modified seed that allows for more growth?
But we aren't supposed to be concerned with things like that. We are supposed to be concerned about health and nothing else...profit is bad. Monsanto is evil...I get your little diatribe. (Please reference the above graphic for my response to it.)
Again, why, is making a profit and making money a bad thing? I don't get it. This little "kumbaya-everyone hold hands and everyone share equally" attitude is seriously getting out of control. These people and these attitudes scare me a hell of a lot more than any GMO could.
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