Source: Natural SocietyAnthony Gucciardi
Monsanto shareholder Bill Gates has argued that GMOs are the solution to world hunger,
going as far as to say that they are actually needed to fight worldwide
starvation.
Unfortunately for Gates, who back in 2010 bought 500,000 shares of the company he is now promoting in mainstream media as the solution to the world’s problems, a team of 900 scientists have found that GMO crops are actually not effective at fighting world hunger. In
fact, the massive team found that Monsanto’s seeds, which have lead to
thousands of farmer suicides due to excessive costs and failure to yield
crops, were outperformed by traditional “agro-ecological” farming practices.
Funded
by the World Bank and United Nations, an organization was created known
as the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD). Consisting of 900 scientists and
researchers, they set out to examine the complex issue of world hunger.
While the issue of world hunger may be quite complex, their results were
not. Quite plainly, the group found that genetically modified crops were not a meaningful solution to the problem.
In other words, the expert team showed through rigorous analysis and
repeated study that the claims made by Bill Gates are completely
inaccurate.
Perhaps what is most compelling, though, is the fact that Bill Gates was fully aware of these findings before going on air to inform the public that GMOs are the solution to world hunger. The same GMOs that have been linked to organ damage, mutated insects, and a host of other issues.
