Genetic Engineering and World Hunger

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by Sarah Sexton & Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House

Denying Food to the Hungry

To a public confronted with television images of the starving in Sudan and elsewhere, the claim that genetically engineered crops will feed growing numbers of people in the Third World has great moral appeal. Its proponents seem highly responsible, even altruistic.

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[anonymous]

In today's global supermarket, people earning $25/year-if they are lucky-must compete for food with people in the same or other countries who earn $25/hour, or even $25/minute. This market logic explains why Ethiopia was using some of its prime agricultural land at the height of the 1984 famine to produce linseed cake, cottonseed cake & rapeseed meal for export to Britain & other European nations as "livestock" feed.

[anonymous]

"In the hanging cage, I stood on a line with 6 other guys where we
took live chickens off the conveyer belt & hung them by their legs
upside down in metal shackles. The killing room was worse than the hanging cage... we filled up a diesel tanker truck with blood every night in one shift. I remember the way the chickens hang there & look at you while they are bleeding, trying to hide their head from you by sticking it under the wing of the chicken next to them."

[anonymous]

"It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over & over again. The blood can get deep enough to go over the top of a 9-inch set of rubber boots - I have seen blood clots so big that it took 3 big men to push them. You have to stomp them to break them up to get them to go down the drain. We filled up a diesel tanker truck with blood every night in one shift."

[anonymous]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer