Monsanto and co has been found illegally killing off honey bees and remaining queens in what was it..Virginiam perhaps? Not sure.
They have?
Do tell.
Because Monsanto has good ties with government officials, they managed to get a law accepted that protects them grom proscecution and such.
What large company doesn't?
That is a completely separate issue - and changes within our government are necessary to ensure that companies have reduced ability to use the law to protect themselves.
I'm subscribed to several reliable news sources concerning Monsanto. Sadly, I'm not at my home this week so I can't share the sources atm.
Reliable, accurate, and complete are three different things.
Other than needing proof, ask yourself: If GMO's aren't harmfull and elevate yhe productiveness of agriculture, then why is it that so many countries already banned GMO's,
Your loyalty is inspiring. You were just saying, in another thread, how governments are malevolent and our leaders are puppets. Now they are looking out for us and expressing differing opinions?
You just kind of go wherever the moment takes you, don't you?
the people fiercely protesting against the gmo crop distribution in their country
So, now the masses are reliable?
I thought they were sheep who did whatever the puppets in office told them.
and why do animal test subjects develop tumors after consuming gmo's?
This comments specifically on that study:
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I'll quote the part most relevant to that study:
The percentage means the percentage of GMO corn in the rat chow, specifically the Roundup resistant strain NK603, and “R” means that Roundup had been applied to the corn. R(A) through R(C) are different concentrations of Roundup in the rats’ drinking water. This is way too many groups to have a high likelihood of producing interpretable data, particularly with only 10 females and ten males in each group. In essence, there were 20 experimental groups with ten rats in each group. Most problematic is the small number in the control group. There’s an old study on this line of rats published in 1979 that looked at the spontaneous development of endocrine tumors. After two years, 86% of male and 72% of female rats had developed tumors of the sort described by Séralini et al. Note that the time period of this 1979 study was the same as that of Séralini et al, two years. In other words, the “treated” rats developed as many tumors as expected for this particular strain of rats allowed to live to their natural lifespanand in fact the control groups arguably had an unusually low incidence of tumors.
I encourage you; start reading:
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So, you're telling me all those thousands of protestors, all the scientists proving gmo's to be harmfull, are misinformed fools?
Yes. I am. And I'm lumping you in with them.
Why?
If only you were as half as intelligent as you think you are.
Son, to you - I may as well be God.
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I am glad that you choose to voice your opinion - and I do not want you to ever stay silent out of fear that you may be wrong - because there may, indeed, be a shred of knowledge you have that I have not already considered - but do know your place.
You insult the very notion of being intelligent by being little more than a parrot for an agenda.
Scuse my engrish (touch screen phone)
You think that is the most critical of your behaviors for me to excuse?
I could say a lot about this but ill just give ya this:
Monsanto requires farmers to sign multi-year contracts with them before they will even let them sample the seeds. If you don't sign the contract and buy non-trademarked seeds they will sue you if even one of those seeds cross pollinated with their trademarked crop, forcing you to burn your entire crop. You cannot grow your own crops with seeds from the last harvest due to Monsanto and their attack lawyers trademarked a genetic line and if those genetics appear in your crop then they can force you to burn your entire crop, as if farmers could politely tell pollinators not to cross contaminate.
This is not much different than the way Farmer's Unions essentially force small farms into their membership.
That said - I do not necessarily agree with Monsanto's policies. I have no problem with their product - even the fact that the seed sold is a terminal crop (the reality is that most farmers would be purchasing normal seed again next year, anyway, from groups that specialize in collecting and packaging seed - it's not worth it to select a portion of their crops to conserve for seed since there are other demands on time, money and equipment).
I live in the western plains of Missouri. There's a lot of corn and soy bean farming that goes on, here - mostly for cattle consumption. I know of a few of their sources for the seed they use - and it's not Monsanto. I know that only speaks for small portions of the country's whole farming community - but, there are sources of seed that do not come with such far-reaching contracts.
It is also law in the U.S. that any GMO crop must be offset by a non-GMO crop of at least 10% the plot size of the GMO variety. ... It may have even been 1/4 ... I'd have to go back and check that, honestly - but there is a law that states you cannot grow all GMO crops as a commercial farmer.
They also manipulate genes without enough testing and have made some nasty mistakes due to that.
Most of the food you eat on a daily basis is untested.
Tomatoes, Eggplant, Peppers (all varieties), potatoes - all are part of the Solanacae family... the nightshade family that produces tropane alkaloids that can drop an elephant. Tomatoes are toxic until ripened. Potatoes are toxic if they are green (and the variety you buy in the store are constantly tracked for alkaloid content by oversight groups). Nightshade is one of the deadliest plants on the planet. Simply touching it has killed people.
You should -never- cook or store Nightshades in aluminum containers. All of them leech aluminum via chemical reactions; high aluminum intake is linked to alzheimer's and other not-good conditions.
Any random copy error, any strange mutation... could easily turn your garden variety tomato into a death sentence.
That's an improbable example... but still within the realms of possible. The fruit of a potato is highly toxic in any state of growth. The fruit of a tomato is edible... unless it were to track toward the potato for whatever random reason biology comes up with.
By contrast - no GMO line is released without years of testing to ensure it is behaving as intended - that new compounds are being expressed in the tissues desired and only in those tissues. The lines are run for several generations to get a measure of stability. The terminal crop process is tested to ensure it is producing crops that behave as expected and that limit their environmental impact (from a business standpoint - you don't want the millions of dollars spent to develop a new line of corn to be wasted if the gene migrates to an heirloom variety that will require huge amounts of legal action to solidify patent jurisdiction and other fun things).
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