Monsanto was started by an idealistic scientist who thought he could
keep the world from starving. Then his marketing department got a hold
on things and now it's all about making money, not helping feed the world.
Keep in mind that Monsanto started out almost a century ago when no one
would have imagined that every individual on earth including farmers
might have a computer or two or three. Computerized farming can allow
crops to be raised naturally. Monsanto is obsolete and needs to be
deprecated.
On 02/22/2015 11:39 AM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Lack of diversity can kill us. Any form of monoculture is
dangerous. Nature uses diversity as an insurance to ensure
that species survive capricious environmental changes and
diseases.
Scientists say that the Irish potato famine was caused by
monoculture.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture
_02 <http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture_02>
--- <anartaxius@...> wrote :
Even hybrid seed producers use a tactic of creating seeds that do not
perform well if the seeds from the crop are used, protecting their
investment. The problem with poorer countries with GMO crops is just
this — sharing seeds, or using seeds harvested from GMO crops. However
GMO seeds from GMO crops are used under license. Monsanto says they
have sued 147 farmers out of 325,000 customers in the United States
for patent infringement. I personally think GMO crops could have
potential dangers, but the TMO doesn't want them because they want to
sell their mumbo-jumbo farming techniques, which so far do not seem to
have any kind of scientific track record for improved yield or food
quality or cost benefits over conventional organic farming techniques.
I also think lack of diversity will be a big problem. This happened
even before GMO technology, or even hybridising crops because we
select what we like to eat and want to grow it without a lot of trouble.
--- <noozguru@...> wrote :
Thing is companies do this genetic modification because they are
desperate for making money. And if they don't do it then someone else
will and then their stockholders will be in an uproar. The real beast
is capitalism.
--- <salyavin808@...> wrote :
Exactly. I think the thing that worries me most about GMO's is that
the world food supply ends up in the hands of bio-tech companies.
Farmers in the third world have already been sued for sharing last
years seeds among themselves rather than buying new ones from the
manufacturer, along with the pesticides they are designed to work with.
Keeping food strains strong via interbreeding by sharing seeds will be
a thing of the past in our brave new monoculture world.
On 02/16/2015 11:33 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@...
<mailto:anartaxius@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
They modified the plant to stop producing an enzyme that makes
the apple to turn brown. Just think, if we could do that to
people, we could stop discrimination based on skin colour. I
would not worry though, humans are exceptionally creative in
finding things for disliking other people. There are many ways
to produce 'new' organisms. With genetic engineering one can
mimic things like cross breeding, or (and this is where the
real potential for danger comes in) mimic natural mutation, or
inserting genes from other species, or creating entirely
synthetic genes. I think a glow in the dark 'spiritual' gene
that activates when a person believes a spiritual philosophy
with too great a percentage of gullibility would help identify
people one might want to avoid, as the conversation with such
would tend to be repetitive without progress. Not of much use
here though.
*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... <mailto:noozguru@...>
[FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2015 5:37 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Oh great! GMO apples approved for
growing in the US
Just what you've been waiting for: an apple that doesn't turn
brown.
GMO labeling needs to be federally mandated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/business/gmo-apples-are-approved-for-growing-in-us.html?_r=1
