Space Robots?

The Monsanto commercial starts out showing some natives interacting with happy upbeat ethnic music in the background. Then we see, for American, an old fashion way of transportation, with ox and a buggy. The oxen are carrying two robots that look as if they have just come down from space. The people of the town are obviously curious to what these creatures are and what they are doing! Of course! They go straight to the farms where they belong. When doing the farming they mix old forms of production, the plowing with oxen and “new” forms, the machines spitting out corns seed packets and shooting, instead of planting, the seeds in the ground. The corn grows at miraculous speed and the most esthetically pleasing corn you have ever seen. Just look at the native faces. The little girl doesn’t know whether to be scared or not of this space, farming, robot, but don’t worry he knows how to share.

            Monsanto must be advanced and technologically savvy with their farming. The old ways of farming, like in 3^rd world countries is not fast enough. So they have come to help. To make the food “better,” by growing faster, looking better, and more of it with less work. I don’t even know what to think of this commercial. It is so absurd the way they are comparing genetic engineering to be like robots doing all the work and the people being happy and buddy-buddy with the robots in the end. I would like to know what genetic engineering is actually doing for the third world countries.