Gates Foundation Pours $10 Million Into Genetically Modified Crops

[polly7]

Published on Sunday, July 15, 2012 by Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/15

Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates "so totally wrong on this assumption that genetically modified seeds produce more."

- Common Dreams staff

In a decision outraging campaigners for food sovereignty and agroecological approaches, the Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa.


The grant is for the John Innes Centre in Norwich, which hopes to engineer seeds for corn, wheat and rice that will fix nitrogen (take nitrogen from the air) so that the crops would not need fertilizers. But GM Freeze, which campaigns against GM food, crops and patents, says that "nitrogen fixing wheat and other cereals have been promised by the GM industry for several decades" and that other, non-GM methods are the solution. Pete Riley, campaign director GM Freeze, adds that "GM is failing to deliver."

This approach sets up a highly profitable scenario for seed makers, as farmers would be reliant upon these companies to continue buying their seeds, and would not be able to save the patented, modified seeds.......

[xtraxritical]

1. What is not stated is that the GM seeds are also sterile.

The plants will not reproduce, this forces the farmer to always buy more seeds. Bill Gates is way MIC.

[arikara]

2. Gates has way too much power

because of all his money, and what he does with it is not necessarily the best or wisest thing. Why doesn't he take on clean water for everyone as a project instead. Dig wells. Fight pollution. Go against fracking.