Overview of the Worldwide Impact of Plant Biotechnology

Farmers from 8 countries share personal experiences about the specific benefits plant biotechnology has delivered to their farming operations, families, communities and the environment.

http://www.monsanto.com/biotech-gmo/asp/videogallery.asp

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• biotechnology
• genetically
• modified
• food
• organisms
• monsanto
• norman
• borlaug

[PolliFaxToaster]

i feel better about crops with modified genes than crops tainted with pesticides. dont forget that corn and sheep and cows are all products of humanity.

[DoJaenin]

although I disagree with practically everything in these videos, I still appreciate you putting them on youtube.

I think though that you should make it more clear in the descriptions that these are commercials, produced by Monsanto, and not independent voices.

(I still have a video by Haliburton about how cars are helping to make the air cleaner, by the way ;))

[sphinxart]

@myndy86 Well said sir.

[sphinxart]

@PolliFaxToaster You don't need pesticides if you know about permaculture. Do your homework! GMO have caused deaths, increases in allergies to foods (broken immune systems) and bankrupted farms. It is a BUSINESS MODEL, NOT A SOLUTION TO PESTICIDES. It is unnatural and unhealthy.

[myndy86]

@Ruthinisrael Most GM crops were designed to be resistant to a herbicide or to produce their own pesticides. So the huge majority of GM crops are tainted with herbicides and pesticides as well as contain antibiotic resistant marker genes and promoters which increase the chance of HGT, sheep etc. do are not GM and do not carry the risks that GM does.

[Ruthinisrael]

i feel better about crops with modified genes than crops tainted with pesticides. dont forget that corn and sheep and cows are all products of humanity.

[Prahlad39]

Three minutes of google searching got me here:

"A study published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences demonstrates the toxicity of three genetically modified corn varieties from the American seed company Monsanto, the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (Criigen, based in Caen), which participated in that study, announced Friday, December 11."

[Kyocus]

Monsanto nearly has a monopoly in India and Argentina because of the spread of the genes from their crops into natural crops. This video is a farce. Monsanto bullies farmers into taking their seed, which has been shown to cause sterility in animals. The lab tests where doctored, and the food just isn't safe. Fun fact: Monsanto is behind Soy Joy. They own most of the soy farming in the US. round up ready soy, not safe.

[julesrulesny]

populations have dramatically increased over the past 50yrs and i agree how wonderful technology can be. but we always think in the now and never of the consequences. the U.S. can easily feed the entire world. We are such gluttons and so wasteful, that it will never happen b/c we have a mcDonalds on every corner. we do not need GM foods. this is just about MONEY not about saving lives. we have plenty of food to go around. the isolation of thought in this country can be baffling..

[julesrulesny]

that was natural.. this is forced in a lab. that took time and developed and progressed in farm, not in a peatry dish..

[AncelDeLambert]

Does that factor in egg and dairy output? Just asking, I'd really like to know.

[PolliFaxToaster]

yeah, and in the past 50 years life expectancy has doubled. using outdated farming techniques would be a disaster.