| > I have no idea what "culturally appropriate food" has to do with this. It's literally part of the initial declaration from the first global forum on food sovereignty. It's their thing, not something I made up. > As for banning (foreign-made) GMOs trapping people in poverty, that's debatable at best. That's not what I meant, I was criticizing the food sovereignty movements assumptions about small scale agriculture. Small scale agriculture basically always means poverty, and people rarely choose it freely. India's agricultural policies absolutely trap people in poverty now. > For one, pharmaceuticals don't displace anything There's a very large industry of traditional medicine in India that would probably beg to differ. Not that this quibble matters. > Of course issues with loss of crop biodiversity and farmers becoming dependent on a single giant (albeit Indian) corporation would remain, There's no reason you could produce a wide variety of slightly modified seeds that are 1 to 1 replacements for what people are growing. You could even spin this out of universities and establish regional seed banks. > none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules. That has nothing to do with banning a technology. |