Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Says GMO Crops Needed to Fight Starvation

Are GMO foods safe? Are they needed to fight starvation? I would like further tests.

Bruce

"Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto’s genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The same poor nations where thousands of farmers routinely commit suicide after being completely bankrupt by Monsanto’s overpriced and ineffective GM seeds. The same company that we recently exposed to be running ‘slave-like’ working conditions, forcing poor workers to operate the corn fields for 14 hours per day while withholding pay.

According to Gates, this is the company whose GMO crops are going to save the world from starvation. Of course along with ‘saving the world from starvation’, GMO crops also bring along a large number of unwanted health and environmental effects. A prominent review of 19 studies examining the safety of these crops found that consumption of GMO corn or soybeans can lead to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice – particularly in the liver and kidneys."
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Reader Robert comments on the starvation issue
"Robert says:

January 28, 2012 at 8:26 pm

GMOs to fight starvation? How about getting rid of the leaders and governments who engineer starvation. ALL starvation and hunger on this planet is politically engineered. Without exception. If I am wrong, please point out where on Earth starvation is the result of something other than government."