A tomato grown on my balcony vs. one from the grocery store

See, the reason you have to keep rewriting my argument and pretending everything I'm saying isn't about GMOs is that it messes up your talking points (or your employer's talking points) if you acknowledge that what most Americans eat is the byproduct of marketing created by getting politicians to pay farmers to grow things that the market didn't support naturally.

So yes, if you spend huge sums of money from World War 1 to current era, you can convince people to eat garbage. As I've already stated, everything you're suggesting growing is food waste - 100% of it - because it's non-native plants that are shipped 5000 miles to rot in a dumpster to overstock grocery stores so consumers buy more due to seeing prosperity on the shelf.

It's a horrible system. As far as starvation, that's a logistics issue, we're not shipping the same food 5000 miles to Africa because no one there is going to pay $3 an apple at market. We could of course solve their hunger problems, but that would have more to do with stabilizing governments and dealing with the massive global economic inequality than growing non-bruising apples.

But I guess it's convenient for companies like Monsanto to be able to use the poor, starving, children, and every health crisis to push the very foods that are causing that health crisis (corn, soybeans, wheat, beef, dairy - the primary ingredients of fast food).

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