Monsanto Ethical Issues

In this day and age many countries are trying to find a way to create crops that would grow faster and produce a greater yield in hopes to make more money. This has lead to many countries starting to use GMO crops to boost the production in their countries. One of the problems with using GMO crops is if it is ethically right or wrong. I believe that it is not ethically right because it is destroying the environment, shifting the animal population and negatively impacting the people in those countries. I will argue my stance on using GMO crops with John Rawls and focusing on three different events that happened in India and Mexico. The John Rawls ethic benchmark is defined as: Justice as fairness means negative rights are preserved, there
The problem with the deal was that the GEAC knew that the crops were ecologically hazardous and that the claims GM Corporation was making were false. Not only did they know they were wrong the made a deal for seed for Southern Punjab and then another deal for a year’s worth of seeds for Northern Punjab. Due to the massive failure of the crop the Punjab Agriculture University tried to step in and stop people from buying the seeds and creating the crop, but Monsanto continue to sell them to the people and farmers who did not know the adverse effects would smuggle the seeds in. This then caused the soil that the seeds are planted in to be saturated with chemicals seeing how the crops required pesticide 4-5 times a day. Now with the lower yield and chemically saturated soil many farmers are stuck growing the Bt cotton, and getting poorer at the same time because the Bt cotton seeds cost more than the cotton is being sold for. A similar event was happening in Mexico but the difference is that the no Mexican government tried to stop the spread of the seeds, and those with larger farm lands actually promoted the use of the transgenic corn seeds. This resulted in many of the poorer farmers to go out of business or lose their land because they could not afford the expensive seeds or grow enough to cover the cost of selling
The University found that with the repelling of the bollworm, it has caused a massive influx of pests that can harm the crops that are not repelled by 205-300%. Also even though the crop is advertised to repel bollworms, the bollworms are actually starting to develop a resistance the Bt cotton. A similar case of the crop destroying the ecosystem was happening in Mexico but on a different scale, one that caused the people to not be able to grow the original edible local corn anymore. Researchers have found that the transgenic corn has caused the soil to be contaminated to the point when the old corn were to planted they would grow out to be inedible like the transgenic corn. Also the pollination of the transgenic corn has started to infect other cities that have not originally grown the transgenic corn. The researchers consider this a type of invisible