That's mostly true, and more than once I've said to "let the bastards starve to death". I've meant it.
However, there are some people who are willing to work and do the things necessary to feed thier families. GMO is an enormous tool that they can use to accomplish that goal.
It's probably the largest, most effective tool since farming began thousands of years ago.
Most GMO does in the lab what viruses often do in the field.
I think we get in trouble when we start to take the attitude that we are superseding nature rather than helping it do its thing better.
“However, there are some people who are willing to work and do the things necessary to feed thier families. GMO is an enormous tool that they can use to accomplish that goal.”
GMO is only a tool to help the food conglomerates gain a stranglehold on the food supply. Despite ethanol we are paying people not to grow crops here in the US. We can already grow enough food to feed a good portion of the world. Supply isn’t the problem. Politics, corruption, war and greed are certainly bigger causes of hunger.
I’m fine with selective breeding that works within the constraints of nature. When some hack in a million dollar lab starts splicing genes from a spider or goat into corn it crosses the line. And yes they are doing that. They don’t know if it will cause cancers, disease or gene mutations in the people that eat it. They don’t even really care. The only thing they care about is can they make their plant immune to roundup or some other chemical or bug.