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RE: Impact of GMO maze, comprehensive analysis of 21 years of field data
You are right to worry about environmental effects of GMOs. These are often neglected by the general public as they are very complex and sometimes hard to predict and explain. The crops might be good, but one should always ask what the potential consequences might be in the long run and are they reversible.
For the second part, I have to say that it's not GMOs fault the economy works the way it does. Yes, handing over such power to a profit-driven organization will probably not end well, but I don't see this as a reason enough to stop pursuing the dream: abundant and sustainable production of high quality food.
I have personal issues and negative emotions towards our Institute for Corn :D link
Well, in the classical production of seeds, next generation will be fertile, but significantly different from the original seed and with much worse characteristics, thus they don't need to protect it by patent or termination because nature will spoil it anyway.
During the 90's we didn't have regular seeds, and we used "from the barn" - it ended up badly.
In the "Eastern Block" we had national factories with the seemingly logical idea - those factories will belong to all of us, people of the county, to be our proud and our future.
However, in practice, it failed miserably :( time and time again, in different countries and in different areas of industry.
It seems like the private and multinational simply works better, although it doesn't sound logical.
For the multinationals, it's biotech corporations like Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and DuPont... I don't know if it's always the case, but before the farmers who used their modified seeds had to sign an agreement promising to not reuse the seeds after each harvest because there are patents on it, so patent infringement... Farmers had to pay for use them... As say @labmonkey is not GMO, but the system.
I forgot about the subject of your Phd :-)...
There are some stories with Monsanto, like GMO coton Bt (Bt » for Bacillus thuringiensis) in Africa. I find only the article in french. GMOs can be a good invention to solve food problems around the world, but that we do with it that makes issues (like all human inventions...)
I just wrote a few days ago about Monsanto and their Glyphosate, also for SteemStem so I can vouch for a qualitative article.
I analyzed the big scientific studies, trying to put misconceptions to rest:
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@alexdory/glyphosate-or-monsanto-s-roundup-a-scientific-and-unbiased-point-of-view
Great I'll read your post this evening... Thanks for the information.