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Environmentalists Rejoice at Monsanto GM Decision
Reuters ^
| 05.11.04
Posted on 06/04/2004 7:25:59 PM PDT by Coleus
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:25:59 PM PDT
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Coleus
To: redhead; farmfriend
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:26:16 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
To: Coleus
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:28:04 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/ ||| sionnsar: the part of the bagpipe where the melody comes out)
To: sionnsar
The real losers are going to be millions of people in the Third World who can't grow cheaper, more nutritious drought and pest-resistant crops. To the environmental Luddities better no improvement in agricultural technology. Those whose bellies are empty for want of food can simply starve to death.
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:30:55 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Not quite. Those people WILL grow more food, because they will adopt 50's style herbicide and insecticide use. Exactly what occurred in India and Pakistan in the 60's.
Most of the big chemicals are cheap, and really raise yields. Not too too healthy (debatable)especially as they are used in the 3rd world, but what the heck? As long as we don't have to eat perfectly healthy GM foods, that's ok with the Luddites. Probably not so ok for the local wildlife and so on.
I'm pretty sure the idiots in question didn't think this competely through.
To: Coleus
Yeah now we will have more of this
Yeah great victory for the environment there
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:37:21 PM PDT
by
qam1
(Tommy Thompson is a Fat-tubby, Fascist)
To: Threepwood
Actually chemicals and sophisticated farming equipment are expensive for farmers. Especially when you need to apply that stuff every season on the field. And what if pests dont get your crops, what if drought does? The bottom line is the environmental Luddites don't care if food can be made cheaper and better tasting. They want us all off the planet.
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:40:48 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: qam1
Eight killed at Russian market.
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:42:08 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Who's that poodle?)
To: Coleus; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:43:37 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
To: Coleus
Too late, enviroweenies. Food has been genetically modified since the first graftings and cross-breedings of crops. Technically, food has been genetically modified for centuries.
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:49:26 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Communism failed because people like to own stuff.)
To: goldstategop; All
Those whose bellies are empty for want of food can simply starve to death.I noticed in all their spin Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth-Humans are Expendable didn't mention how a couple of years ago they couldn't have cared less if Africans died because of their lobbying with the UN and dictatorships.
Resurrecting the "Happy Darky"
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:53:19 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: Coleus
YAY! Starvation makes Africa fun!
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posted on
06/04/2004 7:58:07 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(McDonalds rejected slogan "Billions served....millions if not counting Michael Moore")
To: Coleus
"...Greenpeace GM expert Ben Ayliffe..."
He can't be much of an "expert" if he's ranting against GM crops.
To: Coleus
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posted on
06/04/2004 9:22:43 PM PDT
by
visualops
("I....haven't got any bones.".."Nonsense, nonsense. You'd fall down without them.")
To: Coleus
Monsanto is still arrogant as hell.
To: visualops
amazing....how the hell do these people get the money to fund all this crap?
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posted on
06/04/2004 9:48:38 PM PDT
by
KOZ.
(i'm so bad i should be in detention)
To: Coleus
U.S. chemical giant Monsanto declared it was giving up on the GM wheat it had hoped would smash consumer resistance
...
Farmers groups, realizing the rising resistance
...
This is bad, even by Reuters' nonexistent standards. Did they even bother to ask Monsanto for a comment?
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posted on
06/04/2004 9:57:46 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Coleus
Does Monsanto still sell mutant corn?
To: KOZ.
how the hell do these people get the money to fund all this crap?They are all nuzzling the public udder!
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posted on
06/04/2004 10:22:14 PM PDT
by
edger
(A)
To: Coleus
If anyone from Monsanto is reading this, please design an herbicide that specifically targets chinese elm. Money to be made on that one.
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posted on
06/04/2004 11:00:30 PM PDT
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