In a column published in the newspaper Le Monde, the journalist Stรฉphane Foucart, explains that GMO technology has not significantly increased yields in the United States, contrary to the promises that this discovery had announced. What is it really? Are GMOs really unproductive today?
Marcel Kuntz: This column asks important questions. Answering them supposes being as precise as possible.
Thus, it must first be said that the said journalist must precisely be qualified as a journalist-activist. And even more exactly an activist for, let’s call it, anti-technology environmentalism. That encompasses a hate of GMOs, among others.ย It is perfectly his right.ย The problem is that he does not express his activism in a medium perceived unambiguously as partisan of this cause.
The paper is right to speak of โtwo antagonistic visions of agriculture.โ It should simply be specified that the โpeasantโ vision, as opposed to the โindustrial,โ is motivated by anti-capitalism, that is to say the refusal of the integration of agriculture into the market economy. .ย This choice can be understood (even if French agriculture is plural), but it is too often sheltered behind the lies of the food fear merchants.
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[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in French and has been translated and edited for clarity.]
