Manipulating food security?

At the end of last July, a committee of technical experts founded by the Supreme Court of India banned indefinite trials of genetically modified crops (GMC) until the Government of India. Degree provides appropriate mechanisms for food safety regulations and regulations. Earlier, an Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee also had a ban on GM crops across the country.

The Indian authorities' tough decisions were a heavy blow to GMC business corporations like Monsanto. Facing difficulties from India, Monsanto, Pioneer (USA), Syngenta (Switzerland) have shifted to Pakistan. These three corporations have worked with Pakistan's Food Security Ministry and made a proposal to grow genetically modified corn and cotton in Pakistan. The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency has been asked to assess the impact of GMC on the environment.

Many Pakistani scientists immediately objected to these plans. In addition to environmental concerns, controversy surrounding the impact of GMC crab on human health, researchers in South Asia are particularly interested in the issue of farmers' lives affected by GMC. Dr. Azra Sayeed, an environmental and food security expert, called the three corporations ' plans a 'new attack by empire corporations' to satisfy ' thirst for profits'. According to Sayeed, transgenic crops not only erode native food crops but also seriously affect the lives of farmers.

Pakistani experts have cited the fact that a series of Indian farmers have committed suicide in recent years due to frequent crop failures because the genetically modified cotton variety was planted a decade ago. Prince Charles's comment on the connection between suicide and genetically modified food at a conference in New Delhi in 2008 changed the perception of the community with GMC.

Many experts are also concerned that corporations like Mosanto are aiming for a monopoly on food through GMCs. experts contact Monsanto's lawsuit against an American farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, for violating patent rights. Mr. Bowman bought Monsanto's genetically modified soybeans for planting with a seed from another local producer, then saving part of the hybrid product as a seed for the next crop.

Normally, farmers have a habit of selecting varieties from harvested products last season to plant next season. This allows them to save costs and equally important to be proactive in production. However, with the law prohibiting the copying of a copyrighted product, in this case re-seeding the seeds of the previous crop, the court concluded that Mr. Bowman must pay $ 85,000. for Monsanto. Because of this, annual farmers are forced to buy genetically modified seeds from production companies like Monsanto.

Some social activists and environmental activists have argued that genetic modification for high-yielding crops will contribute to ensuring world food security of GMC-producing companies just to protect protect their profits; Their activities show that their goal is to monopolize the production of food crops, leading to a more dangerous move than manipulating global food security.