http://www.bbc.co.uk/nepali/news/2013/12/131219_monsanto_conflict.shtml

We need to do something to stop this Monsanto nonsense. They have already taken over India. I watched a documentary where framers are committing suicide because they cannot survive anymore with competition to company such as Monsanto. I am all for new inovation and changing the job perspective but really with all these claiming that GMO is healthy BS etc. They are probably the lowest of the low when it comes to moral and ethics..they don't give even a slightest flying f***. 

Meanwhile in Bhutan,

Read more: Bhutan Announces Plans to Become the World's First 100% Organic Nation | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Did any one of you know that they started this venture back in 2010 and now Bhutan grows nothing but Organic?

I think most people's fear of GMOs stem from Monsanto's practices and rightly so. Monsanto, like most for-profit multi-national companies, has gone through lengths around the world to control agricultural crops, particularly in developing nations and destroying livelihood of farmers. So, for this reason, Monsanto should be vociferously opposed in Nepal and elsewhere.

However, GMOs have been viewed through a very narrow lens lately. Farmers have been breeding plants for better yield, resistance of disease, among others, for hundreds, if not thousands of years (mind you, that is also GMO). If you look at the food you're eating at the table, chances are most of it is GMO. More importantly, when you equate all GMOs to be bad, you're also doing disservice to thousands of researchers in universities and organizations that are truly devoting their careers to improve food crops around the world with advent of more precise technologies (like RNAi). 

Came here to say the same, Snurp, you put it even better.

It is so easy to jump on the bandwagon and be a hater, but most who criticize it don't even know why it is good or bad.

FYI

Monsanto weedkiller and GM maize implicated in "shocking" new cancer study
(URL: http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-and-supply-chain/monsanto-weedkiller-and-gm-maize-in-shocking-cancer-study/232603.article)

The World According to Monsanto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_DbVdVo-k

 

Nakkali_Keti,

I am not arguing against GMOs. I also understand that GMOs are major agricultural advancements to keep world feeding. The article you posted talks about controversy of retracting the paper from the journal. It does not present any scientific facts and data that show GM maize does not cause any serious disease. As you said, it is increasingly difficult to get the right information, GMOs may or may not cause any harm but I tend to incline towards independent studies than self proclamations. Agro giants get clearance on their products by lobbying, bribing however they can and we are the one being used in their real experiment while they are making boatloads of money. We are lucky if the outcome is good but what if it is catastrophic? It is very complex issue and I am just a consumer with concerns.

Obama appointed Monsanto chief lobbyist as senior advisor to the FDA

Did you know? Obama appointed Monsanto chief lobbyist as senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. This is the same man that was in charge of FDA policy when GMO's were allowed into the US food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety.

OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO’S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA | The Story of Liberty

There is clearly a conflict of interest for a FDA advisor who should be trying to keep the food safe for the general public, to be part of the company that experiments on genetically modifying crop to yield better profits.

Farmers have been breeding plants for better yield, resistance of disease, among others, for hundreds, if not thousands of years (mind you, that is also GMO).

Anyway, someone needs to take a recourse to the history of civilization,trading era and industrialization and how we've come through all that and how GMO, the word was coined and how it was worshiped during it's beginning day that it's gonna eradicate the hunger of the world. Decades later of that announcement, what researches upon researches are showing is nothing but the proliferation of degenerative diseases. There's a saying 'Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food'. Now find the correlation what it is there betn your health and food? 

Nakkali_Keti,

Lol, snurp.. you are quick on making assumptions(coz replied to my post so quick, lol) —a typical mindset. 

Sad thing is GMO has been synonym to Monsanto, and who claim to be anti GMO are just anti-Monsanto. GMO is great new technology and Monsanto is a company. Just because these new 4K TVs cost 3-4 grands does not mean 4K TV is bad or even cell phone have shown some traceable radiation to cause cancer and we are not stopping using it. Remember when DDT was solution to everything (..) and was banned later. and remember when Penicillin became cure of everything (..) and we are still using today. No one knows the future.

I thought GMO was genetically bio-engineered byproducts, didn't know GMO name itself was a technology. And I think Monsato is the world's most evil corporation messing with nature's way of doing things. Nature gives us certain fruits in certain season to cope with deficiences. Just imagining that those fruits are available throughout the year sounds good at first, but I've literally tasted those unseasonal GMO fruits and it wasn't anyway near like what nature provides us if it were in it's season. In another words, doesn't taste good as lucious as it looks. I'm just talking about taste here, my tastebuds didn't like it, don't know what my intestines and internal organs have to say about it. They're not there yet to make things perfect.

Biotechnology is the wonderful invention to mankind, it has helped to cure diseases but it's still RAW and young. Just imagine this scenario in a movie, a scientist develops gene manipulating techniques and he sees various uses to cure human diseases simply modifying certain genes or borrowing from. Then, this villain knows of his idea and asks a scientist to achieve certain things and a scientist with his bioengineering techniques could do those things. Now this villain gets hold of his invention, shut him off with money or whatever, and gets this invention to make nothing but money and power. Talks sweet things, people buy into it and overnight he becomes powerful entity. After certain time, public who got into his scheme, turns into zombies and start killing people. Zombie apocalypse begins.

Now, That biotech science has it's use in it's field, and here I'm one of dumb motherfckers raging against that villain, that we in the present world know it as 'monsato', what wrong you think we're doing here? They're still working to cope with antibiotic resistant superbugs. Hats off to biotechnology. But to food?? Monsato must be impeached for that. They're turning everyone to living dead, figuratively zombies. Why a japanese who lived a whole life healthy life, dies diabetic in US following typical monsato GMO diet,? Excerpted from some book, but you should by now know the reason, instead of assuming all GMO protestors as dumbeddown crowds. Organic food is the food that our grandparents in villages eat, but now it's become so precious to few living in metro jungle, we've named it organic meaning we want our food in what nature would give us in it's form. The world 'Natural' is dubious and patented and can't be taken as real natural when you see it on labels, it's still GMO, those fckers have owned it. Thankfully, word 'organic' so far didn't get snatched to their scheme.

I blame monsato for demonizing the word 'GMO' and making it almost synonymous to it. I still urge folks AVOID GMO if you could in the context of present day. It would have been wondrous if GMO produce would have no adverse effect, but this biotech is not their yet and still on trial. All we're consuming are things with less severe adverse effects to our health. The day, we see medicines with no side effects at all, GMO produce with no deadly disease causing catalyst, I would assume humanity would achieve perfection. Just like in movie Elysium, probably, one day we'd have 'med bed' to cure any diseases in shortest time.

I'm sure some folks here reading this must be looking at me like I know all. Well, over the years wandering with health conscious folks, I've learned a lot and it's just a mere reflection of what I've learned, I'm not trying to act mr-know-it-all.

FYI

Power of facebook and social medias...
Hope they initiate Organic Revolution in Nepal as well..

http://www.ekantipur.com/2013/12/20/entertainment/saving-seeds/382633.html