ABSTRACT
Crop science, the Heisenberg principle on diet and nutrition at a conference revealed a swathe of problems in Scotland associated with modern industrial farming and industrial food procurement procedures. The conference had reviewed unambiguous scientific evidence on the negative outcomes, in terms of the environment and human health of the present food system. Mutual incomprehension between crop scientists and an informed lay food-eating public is a frequent feature of the public debate around genetically modified (GM) crops and foods. GMOs are products that are deeply intertwined with neoliberal economics. GM crops offer private corporations such as Monsanto the ability to privatise gene races and hence the fundamentals of human food cultures on every continent, and Monsanto in particular have pursued the corporate goal with considerable success and despite extensive resistance from civil society. Resistance to GM crops in the developed, and developing, world resonates the reflexive relationships between culture and agriculture.
