I saw last night, an excellent program on Global in their documentary show 'Currents' called 'Hijacking the future'.
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalsh ... index.html
By Googling Doomsday vault* I was presented with 278,000 references one leapt out at me, Doomsday vault to avert world famine - earth - 12 January 2006 ..., and as the world is experiencing a grain shortage righy now, to-day best we be opening the vaults cause doomsday is now.
* http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=na ... sday+vault
This genetically modified seeds thing has opened up a lot of questions with intellectual property rights as the starter.
Then you have the alarmist luddites which bitterly attack these things. Trade barriers to GM crops have been erected in Europe by the same elements that desperately support KYOTO---with the same factual basis---little to none.
There have been claims that consuming GM crops leads to birth defects even.
Basically it is a legal/economic problem not a moral or health issue.
The suggestion is that one day Montaso will stop making seeds and cause mass starvation if we don't pay them, ONE MILLION DOLLARS?
Ya.
What we have with the GM seeds is nothing other than a legal issue. The intellectual property issue which China disregards on everything from copywrited CD's to patented devises. Nobody owns disease either but drug patents exist and this dillema must be addressed.
The problem is not so much Monsanto holding mankind hostage as Monsanto ending research if it cannot be rewarded for it's R&D.
The nutbars which lable GM foods as "frankenfoods" and imagine all manner of hazards is an entire other matter.
I attended a lecture by a "scientist", who turned out to be an activist with a english BA, where he decryed the contamination of groundwater by Monsanto's "roundup" herbicide. This creep didn't know or conceal the simple FACT that glyphosate is neutralized by clay colloids.....but then I doubt he knew what a clay colloid is.