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PoliticalNick

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I don't care if there are benefits to GMO products. Monsanto needs to removed from the face of the planet. They have bankrupted farmers all over in a variety of ways. Monsanto has a goal of being the only agricultural business in the world by any means and a corporation like that should not be allowed to exist.
 

taxslave

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Says the man who is paid money to investigate if products are safe and efficacious for farmers, including data used for environmental risk assessments. Yes, I think that gives me very relevant experience and insight.

You yourself earlier mentioned doubt about evidence, which by extension makes the claim that GMOs are causing bee colony collapses a contentious claim.

Really, I don't think most people appreciate the finer points here, because all they see is the sensational headlines. There is no evidence that a gene which protects crops against the active ingredient in a herbicide is causing bee colony collapses. If there does turn out to be a correlation, it's far more likely the cause is not the gene itself, but the chemicals applied to the crop which are intended to kill or stop life cycle progression of other organisms. In which case, a GMO for instance that was made drought resistant instead of say, resistant to a chemical, would be markedly different in it's effect on a bee.

Anyways, as I said, the claim is contentious until there's some solid proof, and somekind of mechanism proposed. That's how a scientist thinks. Not sure about naturopaths, but it should be how they think too.

So are you willing to eat their poisons until your death proves they are bad? Agraculture worked quite well for thousands of years without some quick buck artist diddleing with the genetic makup of our food.
 

Walter

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So are you willing to eat their poisons until your death proves they are bad? Agraculture worked quite well for thousands of years without some quick buck artist diddleing with the genetic makup of our food.
What food has not been modified?
 

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So are you willing to eat their poisons until your death proves they are bad? Agraculture worked quite well for thousands of years without some quick buck artist diddleing with the genetic makup of our food.

The only thing that makes a poison is the dose. Sit down and eat 5.1 pounds of spinach in one sitting and you'll die from oxalic acid. Eat a single polar bear liver with all of that vitamin A and you'll die. Is vitamin A a poison? Only when the dose is high, otherwise your body requires it.

There is no evidence that the genes inserted are poisonous. None. The evidence that does point to deleterious effects relates to the herbicides applied to the crop. When you talk this way you sound as bad as some of those other activists you love to rant about.

Anything certified organic. Tree fruits that are classed as heritage. Wild meat and fish.

Be aware that not all food that is claimed to be organic really is.

If it's domesticated varieties of food produced by agriculture-organic, conventional, or biotech- it's been modified. There is no such thing as farmed wild food. Farming involves selection and selection modifies genotypes to get desired phenotypes.
 

Walter

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Anything certified organic. Tree fruits that are classed as heritage. Wild meat and fish.

Be aware that not all food that is claimed to be organic really is.
Wild fish and game I'll agree with. Organic doesn't mean it hasn't been modified from it's original state in the wild.

Oh Water's brain is now hurting.. to much information.. :lol: :lol:
Walter, too
 

petros

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My wallet is fat from GMO barley and canola.

I suppose none of the these marches are concerned with the environmental impact of their indoor weed and I bet none would be up in arms if GMO weed had twice the THC either.
 

petros

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You consume more than I do. I don't drink beer.

And don't bullsh*t and say you don't....

P.S, I grow Bayer GMO not Monsanto.
 

B00Mer

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You consume more than I do. I don't drink beer.

And don't bullsh*t and say you don't....

P.S, I grow Bayer GMO not Monsanto.

No, I don't drink beer, liquor, can't drink soda or eat chocolate. Peptic ulcers. Last time I went out drinking, later that night I was puking blood and was rushed to the hospital where they hooked me up to a saline IV drip...

Now when I was younger.. few could have kept up with my drinking and party life..
 

petros

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No, I don't drink beer, liquor, can't drink soda or eat chocolate. Peptic ulcers. Last time I went out drinking, later that night I was puking blood and was rushed to the hospital where they hooked me up to a saline IV drip...

Now when I was younger.. few could have kept up with my drinking and party life..
I can tell when you come on here late at night after drinking. You aren't fooling me.