Criticism of Mansanto

Monsanto has some good ideas on how to fix the worlds agricultural problems such as food output. They believe that they can fix our agricultural problems by providing people and communities with better tools and innovation, increasing output per acre, and reducing the amount of land, water, and energy needed to grow the crops. But Monsanto is forgetting some of the important issues with food production such as our food export and import system and food dependency. According to one of the videos from class, many countries are not only not given the proper tools, but they are having to either sell most of their crop in the export system leaving themselves with little to nothing to feed themselves, and/or they are stuck in the food dependency circle. The food dependency circle refers to the circle of growing whatever is in demand at the time and not necessarily the crop one needs for themselves. But with our market the way that it is, demand can shift instantaneously from say cotton to pineapples. So the farmer that was harvesting cotton will no longer get the most money for their crop and it is now useless. The video argues that we need to change our whole import/export marketing system, and this would help our agricultural problem. Monsanto has some good ideas, but they forgot about theway our market works. If our market system was to change; however, Monsantos ideas could definitely benefit our agricultural system.

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