GM Agri-Business and Food Safety

Monsanto GM Foods are bad for the earth and humans

Monsanto threatens the food security of developed and developing countries and doesn't play fair with its incursions into the marketplace.


GM foods are marketed as the means to productivity in low yielding regions and as a solution to global food shortages due to higher yielding capacities.

Factor in the fact that farmers become dependent on purchasing new seeds each year, are hugely invested in fertilizers and pesticides to control the growth and that monoculture dominates the landscape instead of using natural farming practices - the result is costly and burdensome instead of productive.

This economic model profits only agribusiness and uses none of the age old techniques of scale, natural regeneration, leaving the land fallow for a season, using cattle as a fertilizer source, aiding small scale farmers to subsist on the land.

A favorite winter excursion used to be to pick up a huge sack of potatoes from a Hillsburgh farmer, just north of highway 7 in Halton Hills.  They were white potatoes that made fine greasy potato pancakes or latkes.  Filling and flavorful for the cold winter days.

Check your local supermarket when buying potatoes and notice the origin and kinds.  So much is from the States, especially in the low end stores like Food Basics.  Support your local farmers.

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How Monsanto is Destroying Argentinia's Agricultural Lands

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Click on cc to read English captions. Canadian's must guard against agribusiness enterprises which will result in similar catastrophic events.