Sorry Gates: GMO Crops Shown to be Ineffective at Fighting World Hunger
Monsanto shareholder Bill Gates has argued that GMOs are the solution to world hunger, going as far as to say that they are actually needed to fight worldwide starvation. Unfortunately for Gates, who back in 2010 bought 500,000 shares of the company he is now promoting in mainstream media as the solution to the world’s problems, a team of 900 scientists have found that GMO crops are actually not effective at fighting world hunger. In fact, the massive team found that Monsanto’s seeds, which have lead to thousands of farmer suicides due to excessive costs and failure to yield crops, were outperformed by traditional “agro-ecological” farming practices.
Funded by the World Bank and United Nations, an organization was created known as the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Consisting of 900 scientists and researchers, they set out to examine the complex issue of world hunger. While the issue of world hunger may be quite complex, their results were not. Quite plainly, the group found that genetically modified crops were not a meaningful solution to the problem. In other words, the expert team showed through rigorous analysis and repeated study that the claims made by Bill Gates are completely inaccurate.
Perhaps what is most compelling, though, is the fact that Bill Gates was fully aware of these findings before going on air to inform the public that GMOs are the solution to world hunger. The same GMOs that have been linked to organ damage, mutated insects, and a host of other issues.
Bill Gates Knew of These Findings Concerning GMO Crops Beforehand
The findings of the IAASTD regarding the ineffectiveness of GMO crops were published on April 15, 2008. That is long before Bill Gates’ address to the public in late January of this year. Did Monsanto stockholder Gates ignore this information, or does he believe the 900 scientists to be incorrect? Perhaps the evidence generated from the expert team is not enough. In that case, then Gates should look no farther than the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Another massive research organization, the Union of Concerned Scientists also examined the true yield of GMO crops, only to find that the altered crops do not produce increased yields over the long run — despite their excessive cost and extreme danger to health and environment. The lack of scientific support behind the GMO crops was so startling to the Union that they documented all the details in a 2009 report entitled “Failure to Yield.”
GMO crops are not only ineffective at fighting world hunger, but are a genuine threat to public health. Even if they were effective at feeding more individuals than traditional farming practices, would they really want to consume it? Bill Gates appears to have the interests of massive corporations in mind when perpetuating the myth that GMOs are the answer to fighting starvation.
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Ya theyre spraying aluminum and barium by the tons and how convieniently monsanto now comes out with aluminum resistant seeds….unbelievable…
I would like this article (as well as many people on this site) to actually back up some of these claims. The article says “900 scientists” say all this stuff, but so what? I could get 900 people, dress them in lab coats, and have them pour some chemicals together, and call them scientists. The article did not say what any of the research actually was, or what the actual results are. And what in the world does “meaningful solution” mean? I’d like to actually see the researcher’s credits, and the actual data produced.
On another note, to all you people who abhore GMOs so much, You know all those soybeans that are in everything? According to the National Agricultural Statistics Board annual report, June 30, 2010, 93% of soybeans grown in the US are genetically modified to be resistant to pesticides. You may want to remember that you’ve been eating GMOs for years.
I would trust the word of 900 people dressed in white coats even if they were auto mechanics over what Bill Gates has to say as his goal is population
reduction. Not health improvement.And today it is known that the high estrogen in soy is feminizing the male population, may be connected to the high incidence of Breast cancer in women,not to mention the ill effects it has on the organs of people as has been demonstrated in test rats.This may also be a contributing factor to the rampant obesity we see in general population. Down with GMO garbage. It contaminates good crops and is unnecessary.
I appreciate your comment, Jean. Got a hearty laugh out of the first sentence, but your final sentence sums up the situation very well.
I've been an organic farmer, among other careers, and farming the old way using crop rotation, soil supplements, organic manures, compost,and the rest is sustainable. As long as the sun keeps shining, we can grow food fairly predictably — and if you start with non-hybrid seeds you can actually save your seeds for generations as they become more perfectly attuned to your specific micro-climate.
This sustainable farming tradition is also affordable to the poor peasant, as well as keeping overhead low for the small or large landowner here in the States. It works very well.
None of the above holds true for those who use GMO seeds and methods:
They have to repurchase new seeds every year.
They must spray the heck out of them with glyphosate to keep the weeds down. (Then your food is saturated with herbicide!)
With all this investment in seeds and sprays and equipment needed to spray, there is no guarantee your crop will be big enough to repay the effort.
On top of it all, going the GMO route is not affordable to the small 3rd World farmer! It is only remotely feasible to the big players, who may be able to arrange some type of subsidized government loan.
This GMO scheme is about reducing the number of farmers, thus consolidating power further into the hands of an insider oligarchy that can be bailed out by taxes of all the people or loan guarantees placed on the backs of the common people.
Furthermore, GMOs will contaminate, as you say, the heirloom seeds, probably with their "Terminator" genes, so that after a number of years, everyone will be forced to buy seeds from Monsanto! This is outrageous. It is a devilish plan to take control over all the world's major food items by a partnership of the U.S. Government, Monsanto, big money folks like Gates and others…with a system that makes food production for billions of people dependent on a system that is worse than the old sustainable way! It is criminally stupid, to boot!
And where will the poor dirt farmer in Africa go when his crops are contaminated with GMO terminator genes? To be even poorer, to live in the city slums? Before GMO, the poor farmer had income and was providing a vital service to his/her community; after GMO, he or she will become landless, unemployed, and at the mercy of whatever jobs he may not be qualified for.
When major corporations and the super-wealthy team up with the government against the people's will, you have Fascism. That is what this is, Food Fascism. It won't provide MORE food, but it will create MORE problems for many people and MORE wealth for the few. (And set up whole regions for starvation, as the GMO crops inevitably fail to consistently deliver on predictions.)
Thanks, Mr. Gates, not one of your best business ideas!
So much misinformation in your post but the terminator gene made me reply. I farm in Texas. I am 60 yo. The terminator gene is NOT in production and when it was being developed it didn't work well. If you catch the same seed generation after generation without going back to foundation seed the plant will be worse. I and my father grew cotton that you could catch year after year. We always caught some seed from certified seed (one year out of foundation) to maintain the seed line. Ya'll have a nice day.
just because we have been force fed garbage unknowingly for years doesnt mean its good for us! the honeybee decline is directly connected to the GMO and round up ready soybean crops also
You may want to remember that also, cancer rates and diabetes are exploding and this is the first generation whose life expectancy has sank below the one before it.
Are you a farmer? Every farmer I know grows gmo.
The suicides were Farmers in India who planted roundup ready cotton and it failed to produce plus the cost of he seeds and spray was so costly they could not show a profit and were losing their farms.
The GMO crops are reverting back to their original state to a degree and requiring more and more spray to combat resistant super weeds that are no longer killed by recommended spraying levels.This makes the spray economically infeasable.Monsanto should be drumed out of business, fined for the damage and made to pay restitution to those they have harmed.
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The problem is not Gates , it is the FDA. If there are results from tests that demonstrate GMO products are a health hazard then these results must be used in a class action lawsuit against the FDA for endangering public health by approving`incompletely tested foodstuffs. Only then will you see who in the FDA is on the take and the federal judges involvement in bribery. A lawsuit shines a light on these backroom deals as the participants must go public to defend their actions, in which case a judge can capitulate by throwing the case out of court without even an evidentiary hearing.
It's really quite simple. I theorized something like this COULD happen back in college, way before I was awake and even knew GMO was a reality, not a theory.
Basically, GMO's tend to work from a more limited gene pool, they'll use say the genes of one or two seeds and mass produce them, as opposed to the usual genetic diversity of hundreds of combinations of varying seeds from varying genetic donors.
Now think about this. What happens when a virus comes along that this limited gene pool isn't equipped to fight off? Well, we've seen what happens firsthand. The virus spreads like wildfire, causing massive crop failure. I'm sure Monsanto was well aware something like this could happen too, when they sold people their tainted seeds.
The so-called "elite" (or as I like to call them, filth) should consider the same thing. In their race to reduce population, what happens when an ultra virus comes along and they've reduced the population so much there isn't enough biodiversity amongst them to fight it off. (because I think Adolf showed us exactly how much biodiversity the elites would prefer.) Well, simply put, more massive crop failure, only the crop will be humanity, not cotton.
Actually the more I think of it, i'm sure Monsanto is hoping more attention isn't paid to that angle of it, they deliberately sold people seeds with the collossal flaw– one they were obviously aware of, if I could put it together with not one iota of experience working with actual GMO's– of not being virus resistant.
I smell a lawsuit in there somewhere.
The fact of the matter is, there are so many more negative aspects of GMO farming than positive. If you were given food that has a 5% chance of giving your child cancer, would you feed it to her?? GMO food has simply not been tested properly and the results that have indeed come in are troubling. I myself don't trust it.
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It's great that you're switching over to organic products but there are many scientists now proving that meat and dairy are the cause of many diseases. The animal protein, fat, and cholesterol (even nonfat/skim milk contains cholesterol) all contribute to heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, and other major chronic disease. Dairy has been found to be pro-inflammatory and, essentially, is not a healthy choice. Any of the beneficial nutrients found in milk, like calcium, are found in sufficient amounts in a healthful plant-based diet.The difference in the nutrient composition of grass-fed vs. conventionally grown beef is very small, especially when compared to the difference between animal and plant food. The bigger problem seems to be in the kind of food. Look into a movie called "forks over knives."
Why have you not provided links to this research these 900 scientists used in their study? Who are these scientists? Let's see the list of names. Where is the peer review? Your rhetoric is sadly unconvincing.
Talk about laziness! You couldn’t just briefly look it up?! Must be all of those GMOs getting to the brain…
http://www.unep.org/dewa/agassessment/reports/IAASTD/EN/Agriculture%20at%20a%20Crossroads_Executive%20Summary%20of%20the%20Synthesis%20Report%20(English).pdf