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Genetic Modification of Crops Is 'Rape,' Botanist Says
PJ Media ^ | September 20, 2019 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 09/20/2019 6:16:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Last week, a Native American botanist argued that the genetic modification of crops is a form of rape. Perhaps the next step in the #MeToo movement involves returning to the low crop yields before the Green Revolution, which saved billions of lives by making food more available through genetic modification, among other things.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-Syracuse, called corn "one of our deepest and oldest relatives." In an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, she humanized corn as the "Corn Mother," saying, "Corn is sacred because she gives us her children in return for protecting us."

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TOPICS: Food; History; Science
KEYWORDS: breeding; genetics; insanity
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Ms. Kimmerer where did you think you "sacred" corn came from? The native people in southern Mexico created maize by artificial selection and cross-breeding of a wild plant. That is "genetic modification".
1 posted on 09/20/2019 6:16:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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Humans eat vegetables. Animals eat plants. Predators eat animals. Humans eat plants and animals. It’s the order of nature. Get used to it. Corn is not a god. Words have meanings. Rape does not apply to corn. This person is severely in need of help. I suggest it bury itself in a corn field to provide nourishment for her beloved corn.


2 posted on 09/20/2019 6:20:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Someone needs a lobotomy.


3 posted on 09/20/2019 6:21:37 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Do we need written consent from the corn?


4 posted on 09/20/2019 6:22:27 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Nothing more upchucking than Indian philosophy.


5 posted on 09/20/2019 6:23:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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This guy needs serious mental help.


6 posted on 09/20/2019 6:23:36 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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Isn’t the corn she considers sacred the product of selective breeding?


7 posted on 09/20/2019 6:24:14 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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She already had one.


8 posted on 09/20/2019 6:27:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Hittin the peace pipe pretty hard on this one.


9 posted on 09/20/2019 6:28:54 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Isn’t the corn she considers sacred the product of selective breeding?

Unless she is a child of slavery and/or rape, so is she....as are we all....our parents "selected" each other and bred.

10 posted on 09/20/2019 6:32:14 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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Oh yes, and cloning humans should be acceptable too! There is a huge difference between just crossbreeding and “playing God”, they are not at all the same.


11 posted on 09/20/2019 6:32:31 AM PDT by Openurmind
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Further proof that George Carlin was right when he said that Rape can be funny.


12 posted on 09/20/2019 6:34:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Have some nice smut with your corn.


13 posted on 09/20/2019 6:35:45 AM PDT by OKSooner (Bill Barr = "Brownie")
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She eats a little too much corn, or something:


14 posted on 09/20/2019 6:36:13 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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Fire this person immediately


15 posted on 09/20/2019 6:37:24 AM PDT by Spruce
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So harvesting must be murder, eh?


16 posted on 09/20/2019 6:37:53 AM PDT by Dahoser
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I took his head and raped his crops before his blood was cold!


17 posted on 09/20/2019 6:42:22 AM PDT by fruser1
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Last week, a Native American botanist argued that the genetic modification of crops is a form of rape.

Because of possession of the faculty of reason, man is different in kind from other species. Because of the faculty of reason, man lives by altering the environment to fit his requirements for life. Other species adapt themselves to the environment.

18 posted on 09/20/2019 6:50:28 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I am eating a raped Honeycrisp Apple RIGHT NOW!

This dimwit is at my alma mater SUNY-Syracuse.


19 posted on 09/20/2019 6:51:49 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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If modifying crops is rape, then eating them is cannibalism, right? Am I a mass murderer for mowing my lawn?


20 posted on 09/20/2019 6:52:58 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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