Posted on 06/04/2004 7:25:59 PM PDT by Coleus
BTTT!!!!!!
The greens (and the lefties for that matter) are very well funded. What alot of people don't realize, is that many very large philanthropic groups are controlled by lefties and envirowhackos. These groups often fund the opposite of the charitable trust's original intentions. We may think the greens and lefties are a bunch of looney extremists, but they aren't stupid, and they are dedicated and persistent. Along with the personal wealth of some (Soros for example), millions per year are donated by people who think they are supporting worthy causes. The Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Foundation, and others receive alot of money from everyday folk who have no idea what these organizations are actually doing with the money.
http://www.activistcash.com/
Then it says a series is coming this coming week about the GM controversey... Whaddaya think they'll resolve for us, huh??? (hint: It's never wise to get your science out of the BEE)(ever!)
I don't have strong feelings one way or the other on this issue. But I do know that So. Amer. crops are heavily treated with pesticides 'cause I've had a reaction to them.
JUst five years ago Zimbabwe was called the "bread basket" of Africa.Socialism has worked real well there.
"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" Seed isn't cheaper when you have to pay royalties and cannot save seed to plant the following year.
It's more complicated than that. A lot of the GM modified grains include resistance to Roundup herbicide. Which means if you plant a Roundup resistant crop you can use Roundup to kill weeds without worrying about wiping out the crop. If you've priced Roundup recently in the container sizes that farmers buy, it ain't cheap.
That brings up the question of how third world farmers will be able to pay for herbicides. Note that when you buy GM seed stock you're required to pay royalties and a penalty of 120x if you avoid the royalty by saving seed.
The real reason Monsanto gave up, is that US farmers would have lost most of the export market for wheat because of widespread foreign prohibitions against GM imports. Hybridization is one thing but when you start interchanging genes from different species you're doing something nature hasn't done in the short timescale with which we're experimenting.
GM crops are big in China. Just try to reason against that country of a billion who are now feeding themselves.
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