Posted on 03/29/2010 5:32:00 AM PDT by truthfinder9
daminozide.
Just as long as they don’t breed wheat gluten into the corn and potatoes I don’t really care.
Not this Cr*p again. This stuff has been on the market for a long time. Virtually EVERYONE in the US has eaten large amounts of it over that time. What use is additional clinical trials testing maybe 200 people. This is just another attack by Greenpeace and the other radical nutjob groups on American industry.
All corn is generically modified. There is no, zero, nada corn that is not genetically modified.
For ages the Hopi have had corn genetically modified to thrive in different parts of the same field.
that’s why they all voted for obama.
Its easy to be a chicken little about GM foods but humans have been modifying food for tens of thousands of years.
Not with weed killer - they didn’t combine plants with weed killer.
Again, the seriousness of the charge proves they are guilty.
People have been cross-breeding foods and animals for thousands of years, not molecularly altering genes. Both are genetics, albeit different kinds of genetics.
“Roundup residues present in one genetically modified corn are much higher than those found to cause toxicity in human embryonic cells and endocrine disruption,” says Gilles-Eric Seralini, one of the study’s researchers.
This is weed killer. This is a new thing in the world.
So that’s why Ethanol sucks!
And let’s be honest, a lot of these chemicals get approved because of big money donations to politicians on both sides of the aisle...
b1) Yes, GreenPeace and some silly Enviro-groups have been targeting Monsanto for quite some time now.
a2) HOWEVER, humans have not been modifying crops to make them toxic to insects through protein modification, modification that has been shown in LONGER tests than those done by Monsanto to have Hepatotoxity.
b2) Just because enviro-whackjobs target Monsanto doesn't mean that that makes the target hysop white! Snakes eat rats, but that doesn't mean the rat is kosher to cuddle with.
I am a fund manager, and thus I am no bleeding heart liberal. However that doesn't mean that I will be all kissy-@$$ on Monsanto just because some Tofu eaters wag a bony finger at it. Monsanto has done some interesting things, ranging from safety tests that are just funny, to some lobby efforts that are exceedingly questionable (like using their lobbying power, both parties, to try and push through Bovine Somatotropin in milk. Bovine Somatotoprin is a sythentic compound used to boost milk production, with the hormone really improving milk yields. The issue is that it has been tied with various types of cancers. Now, I have no problem if people want to drink milk from cows that were given the hormone, as much as I would not like for someone to say that I should not drink organic milk. However, when organic farmers started labeling their milk as sythentic hormone free, Monsanto started massive lobbying to make states BAN producers who made hormone-free milk from saying their milk was hormone free!!!!!!!!! Something about consumers not being properly informed!)
I'm sure the Enviros have villified Monsanto quite a bit, but then again Monsanto is not some 12 yr old flower girl being picked on by neighborhood bullies.
In any event, color me skeptical about the claim of glyphosate residue in the kernels. Glyphosate is applied very early in the growth cycle, maybe two months before formation of the ear. Most likely, somebody decided what they wanted the results of this "test" to be and then applied enough herbicide directly to the ear to achieve that result.
Let’s just go back to manual low-tech farming with plows pulled by oxen and let half the world starve....just think of the benefits to the planet.
I am currently reading Anticancer, A New Way of Life by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber. It is very interesting. He discusses these same issues using scientific and medical data. All of his information is footnoted so you can investigate for yourself. He is a cancer survivor based on diet alteration. He started his exploration after his diagnoses, based on his research that indicated higher cancer rates after WWII and diet alteration after WWII.
Am I concerned about this? Yes, but look at the alternative path. Problems are never completely solved. Yes, we have lost genetic diversity, probably food nutrition is not what is should be, but we do have QUANTITY.
A conservative knows there are trade offs and we do not live in a perfect world.
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