Another lovely product from Monsanto is its bio-engineered Bt corn, designed to kill the European corn borer. When Monarch butterflies eat the pollen from Bt corn, 45 percent of them die.
Monsanto also makes Aspartame, which they freely admit metabolizes as 10% methanol (aka wood alcohol = poison) by volume. Marvelous company. They can't decide whether they want to own the world or kill it. Sam > > http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/ladybug.htm > > This is an article on ladybugs in Scotland that were dying from eating aphids > that had fed on a genetically altered potato crop. > > It's just the tip of the iceberg me thinks. > > Barb > > >>>>>>>>> > > > Worse yet, Monsanto has inserted a "terminator" gene that prevents > germination of seeds produced by crops from Monsanto seeds. Thus, farmers > have to buy new seeds every year. And the pollen from Monsanto terminator > crops turn other natural crops into terminator-seed producers, thus ending > the natural cycle of crop and seed and forcing farmers who didn't buy from > Monsanto to begin doing so. > > This is truly an evil system and should be flatly outlawed. > > Sam > > > I believe there is a difference between using selection to optimize what > you > > want, and hybridization, and genetic engineering. IN the first case you > usually > > are working for some change in the expression of the already present > genes, like > > a color change, flavor change, size, productivity and so forth. > > > > In the case of genetic engineering we are seeing the insertion of the gene > that > > produces an insecticide from a bacteria into a crop, so the crop produces > > insecticide. Then you find that 10% or so of the people are allergic to > the > > insecticide or it may be toxic to everyone. Big difference. > > > > Also, Monsanto is inserting marker genes into their crops. Then when some > > pollen blows from one farmer's land to another's and the marker shows up > in some > > of the seed of the farmer, they are suing him for infringement of their > patent, > > even though he is replanting harloom seeds that have been in his family > from > > before monsanto. > > > > Marshall > > > > Liz Pavek wrote: > > > > > As far as I'm concerned, all hybrid seed is bioengineered. This means > corn, > > > soy, some wheats, and most garden vegetables. When genetics is > manipulated, > > > I consider that bioengineering. > > > > > > Just my nsho, > > > Liz > > > > > > -- > > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > > > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > > > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > > > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > Received: from rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (rly-zb02.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.2]) by > air-zb02.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:23:21 -0500 > Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by > rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (v65.4) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:23:02 -0500 > Received: (from smart...@localhost) > by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) id KAA17048; > Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:22:53 -0800 > Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:22:53 -0800 > Message-ID: <011201bf3a87$20b82c00$92ecf...@emachine> > From: "Sam Earle" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > References: <012001bf33d8$5d971c40$51f0f...@oemcomputer> > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: CS>Bioengineered foods > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:31:01 -0500 > Organization: Prodigy Internet > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 >
