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In reply to the discussion: Monsanto, proud marketer of saccharin, pcb’s, and DDT, says GMO's are GREAT. [View all]Generic Other
(28,979 posts)You sound like an ethnocentric white American to me. And one who hopes to profit off of farmers who did not ask for your input and have for thousands of years produced rice and fed people without paying a corporation to do so. I come from generations of Asian rice farmers. I buy heirloom rice that is untainted by GMOs from Asian rice farmers who value the seeds they developed over centuries of backbreaking work that Monsanto thinks they should be able to muscle out of the way and profit off of. You mention Golden Rice like it is Buddha's gift to humanity, but neglect to mention that every culture in Asia has a different type of rice in cultivation. Saying yours is better because you add vitamins to one strain and call it good enough for all us yellow people is an insult to my intelligence. Most Americans think rice means Uncle Ben's instant rice. I don't think that gives you any expertise in the matter.