Right, plants that could be modified to grow at twice there normal rate and grow in harsher environments shouldn’t be used for the benefit of humanity

@Background Pony #A143  
@Yiffmaniac  
You people have no clue what you’re talking about.

@Background Pony #8DA0  
This, Russia has banned GMO for good reason.

GMO is currently being used as a weapon, not as means to benefit humankind. It COULD be great. But when the pesticide spliced into it kills the bees which support the ecology, and thereby ripping apart the foundation of full spectrum ecology. You lose all the other plants and animals in a slow, grinding, domino effect. The Glyphosate, a birth defect poison is also entering the water table throughout the America’s, which is why you are most likely hearing ‘no known cause’ propaganda statements after Monsanto crops and pesticides are used. Considering all American’s, ALL American’s eat GMO with pesticides inbuilt, their livers and stomachs can only tolerate so much before it starts to breakdown under chemical stress. So you’ll be hearing more and more ‘no known cause for this illness’ occurring as well.  
Monsanto has zero interest in keeping America’s or any other countries perpetual food supply working. GMO is being used to wipe out that function. It is a weapon, follow the tree of money (and terror) and you’ll find out directly ‘which’ country is administering it, and it isn’t the USA.

Penn and Teller, everypony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8
 
Here’s RationalWiki debunking the myths as well: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

You kidding? How else do they get apples that are ready for harvesting Spring through Fall?

So I guess I’m just gonna be the first to say, that’s pretty bad, slapping your politics onto an image so you can further your agenda on this sight.
 
Barely pony related, indeed. You could’ve at least made it into a funny comic.

@SunBurn  
Yeah, that’s the problem with allowing people to patent genetic sequences. It shouldn’t be legal but it is.

Hm, this must be about the Monsanto corporation. In principle, GMOs could be healthier to eat and be grown more abundantly and efficiently…  
Some things I’ve heard here and there being that the GMO crops, while they may have certain benefits to the farmer, cannot grow their own seeds so a farmer would need to continually buy the seeds from Monsanto.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWY-3wfyTVg

GMOs aren’t the problem.
 
The corporations that make them and patent them are.
 
Genetic modification is the next step in agriculture.

Here’s why Monsanto is bad: they’re such crybabies over copyright, that they’re willing to make food finite.

@WatermelonRat  
So, that’s not Monsanto’s fault. It’s that the US patent system is tragic at most. (And it is tragic, but I think that’s for other reasons.)
 
Really, you can’t expect a company to not aim for the profits. It’s perfectly legitimate. You can, however, act so the rules of the game are changed. You know, the laws.
 
Monsanto’s most successful product is the herbicide Roundup, which formula isn’t covered by patents anymore and now other companies produces “Roundup”, or rather a glyphosate-based herbicide.  
Glyphosate is a powerful herbicide indeed, but it’s quite good for the enviroment because it degrades quickly. The problem is that it’s non-selective and kills the crops too.  
That’s why Monsanto engineered “Roundup-Ready” (RR) crops, so farmers could use Roundup without worrying for the health and nutritious content of the crops.
 
It seems a perfectly legitimate business to me. Even if the law allows Monsanto to produce sterile seeds, so farmers must buy them from Monsanto every year. But hey, this is the business, since glyphosate isn’t protected by patents anymore.
 
You can whine because of Monsanto, but this shouldn’t push you to complain against GMOs. It’s not that just Monsanto can do researches on GMOs, you know. And in fact, some GMO crops were developed by universities and aren’t covered by royalties.
 
Sooo… back on topic. Equestria doesn’t have GMOs? Prove it.  
Hell, there’s magic in Equestria! You can have much worse, just ask Discord!

I’m against GMOs

GMOs are great.

Equestria doesn’t have computers either. XD JOKING JOKING GMO’s are nasty.

Thumsb up if u cryin evrytim!

Please. Have you seen the biomancy program at Celestia’s Academy? Manticores didn’t make themselves.

@WatermelonRat  
Monsanto is terrible, yes, but that’s because of the people who run it instead of any inherent problem with GMOs. But I know of plenty of people who treat the entire idea of GMOs as an evil that must be stopped.

I wish to note that GMOs are not inherently a bad thing.
 
It’s just how Monsanto uses them that’s bad.

@fearanger  
They were making dangerous products long before they stats creating GMO, I see no reasons to think they would magically become paragons of virtue after.

Oh, and Monsanto manufactured Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Not related to the topic at hand, but something to keep in mind when discussing them.

@fearanger  
The real problem with Monsanto is their abuse of patents. If you buy seed from them one year and grow crops, you can’t seeds from that crop for the next year or you’d be breaking the patent. You have to buy all over again. Oh, and if you have a non-Monsanto field nearby that cross-pollinates with the Monsanto product, you can’t use its seeds either.
 
Also, the main angle of their genetic engineering is to make their crops immune to the potent pesticides and herbicides they produce (Monsanto was originally a chemical company).
 
Then there’s the patenting of certain genes so other scientists can’t even research them.

@boz  
So what I’m getting at is that GMO is most definitely the future of food processing but these people managed to turn it into a weapon by accident? … or not by accident?

@boz  
That is true, GMO’s can be good, just need to properly test them several times over to see if they are safe BEFORE putting it out on the market, don’t falsely advertise you products with info that can easily be proven false, and so on.

Hey, it’s the sleazy tactics of Monsanto that I oppose. I’m strongly in favor of genetically modified food, I just don’t want big corporations abusing patents to prevent others from researching certain genes and using their power to tip safety studies and environmental impact research in their favor.