Genetically Modified Foods
Introduction
Genetically modified foods are of interest to me because they promise a great
deal. However our 1800’s legal, economic and political systems that lead to bad
decisions are not yet capable of making use of this amazing technology that
rivals space exploration in scope.
If we let the bull horns and megaphones of the corporate world convince us
all is good, we will not be giving our children the chance they should have been
given. My intention is to criticize the corporate megaphones approach and even
suggest there is another way.
Retaining Diversity and Choice
I feel that the economy and food supply chain is there to serve us and not
control our lives. I feel strongly that if genetically modified foods is
necessary, the consumer should always have a choice to buy it or not. Make no
mistake about genetically modified food, this food will contain preservatives
and pesticides that the plant generates and can not be simply washed out. Too
many decisions are already made for consumers on the food they eat. We do not
need to consume more chemicals in our food chain unless we choose to do so or
our country is in a state of starvation and we have no choice.
Recently governments have stated that GM foods must be grown in poor
countries. I would suggest that local foods should be grown in such countries.
In Australia we should know better then to fall for that one! Native creatures
and plants are adapted to the local conditions and should be tried first. How
many of you have tried Australian bush food. Do you know what Lemon Myrtle is???
GM foods do have a place, but so does continued diversification of our food
supplies. Currently Australia and numbers of other countries are ignoring global
warming. If our worlds environments change, there will be mass extinction’s of
plants and animals. Retaining our diverse food supplies and life on this planet
is a must because some of those plants and creatures will help our children
retain a foothold in the future, when weather patterns have changed.
I am not against GM foods in principal, but the corporate spin of megaphones
blaring out "its is good, it is good!" is not impressing me in the least.
I feel that a diverse food supply and even GM foods might even have a future
use colonizing other worlds out in space.
While we live on this single planet, we do not need our populations to be
forced into dependence of GM foods. I am almost expecting them to put back on
the table ‘the terminator genes into the seed stocks so they can force farmers
to buy from them only.’
Our decision systems are still living in the 1800’s
Lets not start playing buy-outs, gifts, bribes, political donations,
corporate-takeover, cooking-the-books, finding-loopholes, mergers and acting
illegally when we can get away with it or the political powers to be soften.
PLAYING THE TOP END OF TOWN WITH NATURE, THE FOOD SUPPLIES AND DIVERSITY IS
NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!!
Our economic, political and legal systems are still based in the 1800’s.
These systems still think the world is a place that will never run out of
resources. These corporations are living and planning using those outdated
systems.
I admit Band-Aids have been applied to fix problems, but they are not
working. We need to find a way to understand the true value of the food and
diversity of life if we want to genetically modify and possibly pollute in a way
that has never been heard of before.
Corporations have always been keen to jump in boots first and dig up
fertilizer in a place like Nauru and leave the 12,000 people to survive out in
the middle of the sea on a bare rock. "What???" That says something about how
well our economy, politics and legal systems value what is around this Island
and ultimately the entire world. It tells me those systems are still living in
the 1800’s.
We have the tools for a solution, why not use them?
I am not talking about economic, political and legal theories that will be
developed in 3535, these theories have been available to us for decades if not a
hundred years. People need to become aware of:
Using a 1800’s economic system to model this is like trying to use the abacus
as a personal computer.
I mean "Well Hello Corporate Nauru", do we really need to sit back and watch
our own country get stripped down to a bare genetic rock and buy our genetic
"soil" back from the people who took it?
Genetic modification is in a frontier stage. The frontiers of space have
opened up to us because of the brave astronauts driving vehicles loaded with
toxic nuclear materials that could have hurt the health of an entire nation if
they blew up in the atmosphere. We do not need to be gun-ho about the frontier
of genetic modification.
your five year old son or daughter is probably playing a computer simulation
right now that is simulating the web of life, managing a city or even the world.
If your five year old kid can do it, I think we could try and understand our
world in a different way. We can truly get away from the top-end-of-town 1800’s
mentality and move on to understanding the world around us with the new tools we
have available to us.
With a new way to view the world things can change
Get to know the basic four points
Then see how a GM organism or even Nano Machine might affect this complicated
pattern. If you can’t figure it out, then perhaps you should ask the five year
old son or daughter for help!!!
You can even use these systems to analyze how well the legal, political,
economic and cultural systems fit into these four points above.
In conclusion
GM food is not a signal for the 1800’s style of a corporate feeding frenzy,
it is a signal for us to get reacquainted with the world that has allowed life
to survive here so far. It is a message to us about giving the young ones a
chance to choose and live in the future society and world we will leave them. It
is about having the choice to eat food as free as possible of chemicals that
could harm you.
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