Posted on 09/23/2013 5:34:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
For the life of me I can’t think of why anyone who doesn’t work for monsanto would be so at the ready with the number of legal actions over a 12 year period and how many of those were actually tried.
“Maybe something besides provide a shield for their former employers (Monsanto, et al)?”
Ok, what is that “something” that you want them to do? Ban food that hasn’t been demonstrated to be harmful?
Or do you have some other suggestion in mind?
“Then we might get the whole truth about how polluted our food supply has become.”
What exactly has our food supply been “polluted” by? Is there some toxin or contaminant in GMO foodstuffs that you can point to?
So you think the left is out mounting a worldwide campaign against this stuff out of the goodness of their hearts, I suppose?
Everyone who eats ANY KIND of food, however perfect and pure, will eventually DIE.
The truth is tough to swallow sometimes.
“Let’s start simple: Allow food that has been demonstrated to be harmless.”
Ah, so you want a bigger government with more control over our lives. Got it.
I am grateful to you for pointing out the grave perils of retardation.
Your postings are very convincing in that regard.
Let this be a lesson...Don’t let this happen to you! ;-)
NSA spying, big pharma, foodstuffs monopolies, oligarch banking cartels, police brutality...sounds more like a Tea Party meeting, eh?...
>>Many Greenpeace and Friends of Earth have infiltrated Free Republic over the years. They pose as conservatives, but in fact, are far left....when Bush was President, they claimed that Bush supported GMO’s, their real agenda is anti-capitalism and hatred of Monsanto. You just have to look at the people who support anti-GMO’s like Barbara Boxer, Pelosi, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Friends of Earth, etc, to realize how the far left has brain washed this issue. >>
Hmmm, so you think that changing the FDA’s mission into one where they have to certify every food as “harmless” before it can be sold, would NOT entail a huge increase in the FDA’s scope, budget, and power?
Okay, ya got me there...Actually investigating WOULD require more work than just rubber-stamping everything Monsanto wants to feed us.
(Maybe they could start by asking Europe why they don’t allow this crap in their food supply. Might point our FDA in the right direction.)
Good sport.
I disagree with you on much of Monsanto issue but you are hale enough to take my shots.
You must be eating well!
Not just Monsanto. They’ll have to approve every foodstuff that everyone produces, under the kind of regime you proposed. Otherwise, it’s a violation of the equal protection clause. You can’t have one special process for Monsanto, and one for everyone else.
As for Europe, well, if you are advocating we take hints from them, that really won’t help convince anyone that hating Monsanto is NOT just another leftie sham cause.
If control/power is the goal, then it would make sense that at some point even though it is possible to feed more people it could be that those in control will decide who gets food and who doesn’t.
What disturbs me more than Monsanto is after Monsanto controls the food- who will control Monsanto? If the government takes over Monsanto at that point food is controlled by the government. Monsanto may or may not be evil, I am not comfortable with food being controlled to the extent they are attempting to control it. No patents should have been allowed for food, no one should control food in that way.
Crops have been altered by man as far back as man has tended them. Selective breeding, hybrids, grafting...to my knowledge no one patented the process which gives them control over anyone else that might choose to do the same.
Monsanto wants to keep their cake and sell it too, they want to claim their process is just a newer way to raise crops- nothing to fear. Yet they patent their results when that has not been the case with food. No one else is legally allowed to do what they have patented, no other company can just decide to do the same process. That is power like no other when you are talking about food.
I haven’t even decided how I feel about GMA, I do think at the very least testing should have been required before it was allowed to be sold as it is for new drugs to be released. No one really knows if there will be long term health consequences. To me it seems like a bad idea to co-mingle pesticides with foods during the genetic stage- there has been much controversy over different pesticides applied to food, genetically introducing it to food seems like a bad idea.
No patents should have been allowed for food, no one should control food in that way.
Some people may be interested to know who Monsanto’s # 1 lawyer is....Philip Perry. Husband of Liz Cheney, running for senate in Wyoming.
Yup, another “little” secret.
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