Matt, Organic doesn't have to cost more as a food item, because it really doesn't cost more to produce, it costs less. The greater prices are an artificial construction imposed on farmers who want to sell under the organic label. This helps reduce small organic farmers in favor of corporate farming. Corporations are chartered by government permission. They are really an extension of the government. GMO tech is about market dominance not greater options for product development, it teaches a pest index to take on microbial pesticides grown by the plant to become resistant. This insures that new GMO products will have a place to be developed and replace those that the pest index has become immune to. It does not take that long. Organic methods are conventional traditional agriculture that can be applied to many growing medias. Your paying more for organic because someone wants to make more money for doing less. Sound familiar?
One reason to buy organic is to reduce your intake of bacterial toxins produced and found in the body of the plant, taken from wildtype bacteria to kill competing soil or phylloplane bacteria, (this will effect your resident gut symbionts, which also work closely with your immune system) and pest oriented arthropods a source of nitrogen. Arthropods have very short life spans and their resident (GMO exposed parents) recover more resistance in their that are in turn transferred to their offspring in their eggs. Organic farmers can own their own seed. They own the source of food production. This is the fundamental political card. A farmer who grows GMO crops, surrender their ownership of food production. They become employees, servants to something outside of themselves. There are many other good reasons to support organic, I won't mention others. You have only time, how much is anyone's guess. But quality time is short in duration in any life. That is your value. If you compete your time will be fractured to a few others to possess. If you cooperate your time will grow something and all who cooperate will possess an ever accelerating and divergent continuum much like farming. What will it be? Will your intelligence be born and raised in a family or caged like an animal? Pat McKown ________________________________ From: Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> To: AGI <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Cognitive Fitness On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]> wrote: > GMO's and Monsanto terminator seed lock-in's are one of the biggest driving > forces of suicide amongst farmers in third world countries. They make big > claims about yields, but in reality, the yield is usually only a small > percentage, while also being much more expensive than traditional methods, > and destroying the land (with associated chemicals) making it infertile and > inhospitable to life. > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html How is this the fault of technology, as opposed to corporate misbehavior and corruption? You can still buy non-GMO and organic food. There is a market for it because some people don't trust the technology. But the fact that it costs more tells me that the technology works. In any case, technology will be necessary to support a growing population because most of the arable land is already used to produce food. Either we can produce food more efficiently or we can keep cutting down forests. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19859314-980d9bb4 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
