I am not against GMO's.

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Originally Posted by Korisek [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The effect on the produce itself was healthier crops, but not more.

Healthier than what?

I think you meant to say "healthy," implying that they are as healthy as normal crops, but this would not produce crops that were "healthier" than normal crops grown on non-depleted soil.

Crop rotation was invented to fix the devastation caused to soil ecosystems by monoculture.

At present, there is massive research into how to keep monoculture viable. This, in fact, drives a lot of GMO R&D, and certainly much of modern horticultural science.

They say you should let your children play in the dirt to pick up immunities. The outcome you're trying to avoid by this truism is a bubble boy - someone who has never been exposed to the microlife all around us, and who will probably now have a bad reaction if exposed to the world. Well, Monsanto et al have been making bubble corn for the longest fucking time. Sterilized fields, antibiotics, chemicals to prevent infection.. all in an effort to protect these now extremely delicate organisms from dying by way of the normal world. Now they are trying to introduce traits from other organisms to make these sick plants live, because all the chemicals in the world aren't working. Farmers have inadvertantly developed monocultures of superbugs that you can't just kill anymore by killing off the variety of life (the superbugs competition).

Stripping the ground of nutrients is only the tip of the iceberg of the idiocy of modern farming.

There ARE good reasons to be strongly against Monsanto, "GMOs R EVIL" is not one of them.

Very little if any of the GMO research is being done to make food better than normal, it's mostly being done to make food plants survive the hellish world they've created for them.