Prince of Wales resumes GM crops debate

Scientists should leave food alone. We should have just plain normal foods.

I wholeheartedly believe the Indian small farmers. I purchased some cheap cauliflower seed and it yielded nothing, the most pitiful little flowerets. There was plenty of organic fertilizer in my garden. The seed was inherently non-productive. Because I reside in Illinois, I can't help but wonder if this was GM seed. At the very least, it was a scam to anyone who purchased it. Poor people who purchased and planted this seed are now totally dependent on store bought food, as their garden would have produced nothing but tall, non-productive, stalks. Another rip-off in America.

Go get GM, P of W!

genetically modifying plants leads to patenting strains of life. Monsanto is a company that is at the top of GMO corporations and overturned laws disallowing life patents. they own particular strains of plants like canola and soybeans.

if all we eat are strains of DNA that are patented, and we are what we eat, do we become the property of patent owner?
i don't want to find out. GMO = Ghastly Monstrous Organisms

I like your logic phillyphil; do we become the property of the patent owner?

Mine is if a person without a conscience is by definition a sociopath, and a corporation is given personhood by its government and by definition does not have a conscience, then corporations are by nature sociopathic.

I agree with Prince Charles on this 100%. Monsanto and other companies involved in this hoax of "feeding the world" must be seen for the liars they are. All they wish to feed are their profit margins by foisting this technology of doom upon us. Monsanto is already predicting their profits for next year and is stopping at nothing to peddle their frankenfoods in other countries such as Japan with the aid of our government whose pocket they are in in order to bring $$ to themselves, not food to the hungry. If they really cared about the hungry they wouldn't have raised the price of their seeds and poisons!

And as far as the Indian farmer suicides, they were lied to by Monsanto about yields as well as having to buy the seeds yearly WITH herbicides and pesticides. It is reported that the way many of them committed suicide was by drinking the pesticide... so how can Monsanto say it isn't related? They were in extreme debt due to having to purchase seeds every year and herbicides that did not bring them the yields they were pronised. It is also reported that their animals in some instances died after eating the plants, and transgenic contamination is also a factor.

And when you learn how the DNA of another species is fused and how it is inserted into every cell of the plant with a virus and bacteria because that is the only way for the cell walls to be broken to allow the DNA to fuse, you then know how EVIL and morally irresponsible this technology is as is the company putting it out.

There is enough food to feed the hungry in this world that is conventional, organic, and natural. It is being held back however, by governments and organizations such as the WTO and the World Bank in league with Monsanto and other companies that look to up tariffs and premiums on non GMO food in order to push GMOs for profit to own the market. We need to see more leaders in this world (preferably the US president as well) standing up to this and calling for adequate testing of these organisms and proper labelling of foods that contain them. And if testing is not provided by independent peer reviewed scientific anaylsis, then they should be pulled off our shelves.

The environmental devastation alone not even taking into account the health risks down the line from this have the potential to take us down the path to an ecological tipping point we may not be able to come back from. Any company that killed as many people as Monsanto did with Agent Orange doesn't even deserve to be in business.

Many of the farmers have probably commited suicide at the way have been short changed over the years by the wholesalers who give them bottom dollar for their produce but do not pass this on to the consumers

Listening to a person like Charlie Boy who talks to trees is dangerous.

We have had genetically modified plants for an unknown number of years and a great number have been to our benefit

Genetically modified seeds, owned by chemical corporations, have no business being used anywhere. They are not beneficial to our environment nor our health. The originating companies do not allow the plants to reseed themselves claiming they own the rights to those seeds. This is preposterous and another example of corporate greed overriding any sense of obligation to the environment or to human lives and livelyhood.

Kudos to the prince. Fighting this is very important.

God bless this good man. He's one of my Heros. I predict that if this World's nations would but embrace the Geodesic Domes Buckminster Fuller invented in 1950. And would use them as homes ,community greenhouses,doubleing as community natural disaster centres, that the scourge of Big Oil's Monopoly enslaveing humanity through genetic modification of food crops would come to a screeching halt. The Dutch have already proved that
organicly cultured food crops are tops in nutrient dense food sources. With the manipulation of photoperiodism that enables food crops grown in the far north latitudes to produce 10 times the size & weight of organic crops.The natural way to grow food will continue to be the safest route possible because God through Nature has already seen to all our future needs. We simply need to have faith in His Divine Wisdom. In every nothern State in the USA exists agicultural stations in which southern nut trees are hybridized to acclimate themselves for planting in the northern latitudes to benefit us. As the result of their research, for a long time now, there have been produced dwarf fruit trees which grow quickly,produce a generous amount of a wide variety of fruit,and can fit easily within a small biodome greenhouse.The English know instinctively from the success they've
enjoyed as the result of their Eden Project (shades of
Earth 2) that their leadership in building these domes
will inspire others to follow. People lead by example.
And as the English have always said: "A man's home is his castle" We Dutch know food. It's our forte.

Finalmente una presa di posizione ferma e decisa, un attacco contro la monsanto e contro chi cerca di monopolizzare il mondo con i suoi semi modificati
Fin quando ci sarà qualcuno come il principe di galles, per i vari monsanto sarà una battaglia all'ultimo chiccho di grano

GMO = Genocide (of) Multicellular Organisms