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  1. This is by far the most dangerous development for Armenian agriculture. Agriculture is already threatened by the very poor conditions in the villages, which government policy of enlarging communities is only making worse, and now the introduction of GMO would end viable agricultural development. This has to be stopped at all cost.

  2. Very Poor Conditions is an understatement.
    Stop hybrid seeds supply to Armenia and no to introduction of GMO EVIL in Armenia, the health of the population in general is already in utmost poor conditions for a number of reasons including mining.

  3. Im sorry to say our Armenians leaders will gladly take money from Monsanto in bribes for introducing their ruin, poison, cancer causing food source monopoly into Armenia. Monsanto is worse then Turks or Azeri’s. Pure evil vile. How do we stop this?

  4. The pitchforks and torched mob have no interest in real facts or science – it is more like religious bigotry: fanatical activists claim something is true and then resort to threats, lies and misdirection if anyone actually dare ask for proof. Mr Tankian, apples in America are tasteless because supermarkets consider physical appearance and shelf life more important than taste and they have chosen to promote the types of apples that provide these things. Monsanto has nothing to do with any of that, and has no connection with apple production, anywhere. However, perfectly round hard tasteless American apples are ideal for throwing at puffed-up musicians ;). In Armenia apples are cash-crop valued at about the same level as weeds: each year hundreds of thousands of apples are just left to drop and rot because they have no commercial value. If Tankian wants to help apple producers in Armenia to continue to produce the apples he likes he should be encouraging Armenians to eat more fruit, and for Armenia to develop ways of adding value to apples by processing them into other products.

    • That being the case, GMO and Monsanto still do not belong in Armenia, or anywhere else for that matter. I hope you are not suggesting that it’s OK for Monsanto to enter Armenia based on – “science”…?

    • Too bad “Steve” doesn’t sign his real name, thus pre-empting the suspicion that he may be a Monsanto troll. The points and counter-arguments “Steve” raises are, in my opinion, very valid.
      I also want to congratulate the “Armenian Weekly Staff” for finally publishing a balanced article on this damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t issue. Too bad the AW also published the “Pitchforks-and-torches time” inflammatory article.
      We don’t need to duplicate the Syrian conflict here! What we need in Armenia is reasonable people who make reasoned decisions based on correct information.

    • Supermarkets have no choice because the US corporate funded bribed government has allows a company like Monsanto to re-create our NATURAL FOODS supply into non natural, genetically modified food to basically monopolize for profit, with out any clue as to what the long term health effects on humans will be. This is a terrible gamble at best and disastrous at worst. Also the idea to monopolize the seed supply and also create chemicals which are disastrous to pretty much all natural environments including humans which are proven to cause cancer, yet be totally resistant to its own genetically modified food invention, is criminal and evil. No Thanks. Falling apples to the floor in Armenia has no relevancy as to their genetic make up and yes they do taste better because they are natural.. I say keep that poison and corporate scourge out of Armenia.

  5. I wonder if Steve is one of the embedded Monsanto or the other notorious chemical company “staff” changing Armenia’s fruits and veggies to include monsanto’ s poison. While Serj Tankian has the health of the Armenian people at heart.
    Perfect shape of apples in stores may have something to do with the taste because unlike humans, worms will not eat them and or deform them. Stop advertising Monsanto.

  6. Too bad “Steve” doesn’t sign his real name, thus pre-empting the suspicion that he may be a Monsanto troll. The points and counter-arguments “Steve” raises are, in my opinion, very valid.
    I also want to congratulate the “Armenian Weekly Staff” for finally publishing a balanced article on this damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t issue. Too bad the AW also published the “Pitchforks-and-torches time” inflammatory article.
    We don’t need to duplicate the Syrian conflict here! What we need in Armenia is reasonable people who make reasoned decisions based on correct information.

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