re: Can anyone enlighten me about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

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How the hell are these huge companies making money with a product that cost them a shite load more to produce according to your post?

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Company. Singular.

Monsanto. And they make their money by patenting their seeds. When nearby farms with non-GMO seeds are cross-pollenated, which inevitably happens, Monsanto moves in with a lawsuit, or the threat of one. This isn't conjecture. They have done this on more than one occasion.

The protest about GMOs is mostly about the lack of things: labeling, research, regulation. The number of people who have swapped positions between Monsanto and the FDA (going both ways, and sometimes the same person more than once) is shady. People just want options, and the powers that be want to control agriculture and food production in a way that removes those options.