Sorry Gates: GMO Crops Proven to be Ineffective at Fighting World Hunger
Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
March 2, 2012
NaturalSociety
March 2, 2012
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 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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