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Q17: Are GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) foods bad?<br />
Q17: Are GMO (Genetically<br />
Modified Organisms) foods<br />
bad?<br />
1. GMO companies claim their products are safe.<br />
But, they are opposed to any regulation that<br />
would require GMO foods be labelled or otherwise<br />
identified as “GMO.”<br />
2. GMO seeds deny the right of farmers to save<br />
seeds from the harvest, use it <strong>for</strong> future planting<br />
seasons, or exchange it with other farmers. GMO<br />
seeds sold to farmers are not GMO mother seeds<br />
but hybrid seeds (made by crossing GMO mother<br />
seeds and regular seeds). These hybrid seeds lose<br />
their vigor if carried over several generations.<br />
Worse, the seeds are designed to fail to<br />
germinate after a few generations. This means<br />
that the farmers has to go back to the GMO<br />
seed company each planting season <strong>for</strong> a fresh<br />
set of “expensive” seeds. When farmers lose their<br />
stocks of regular germinating heirloom seeds,<br />
they become “hooked.”<br />
3. GMO seeds threatens the availability of<br />
traditional seeds (“heirloom” seeds) that have<br />
been in the custody of farmers <strong>for</strong> millenia. Non-<br />
GMO fields are at risk of unintentional cross-<br />
78 <strong>World</strong> Government Slave Handbook
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