Posted on 06/03/2014 12:38:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After posting this article, the editorial staff at WaPo went to their favorite organic, non-GMO bistro for lunch.
Defined in Merriam-Webster as: a foolish act or idea. Ex. a serious journalist who refuses to take part in the asininity of reporting celebrity gossip as real news.
I don’t have a problem with GMOs.
I only want to know why ArcherDanielsMidland et al. fight like hades to keep from listing GMO on their packaging. Why wouldn’t they want a consumer to know if it is genetically modified or not?
So even GMO is part of that, and the propaganda against it now is a tactic for chaotic division and conquest.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. …
GMO is one topic I am still on the fence over.
Remember the it’s not to fool with Mother Nature ads?
They were selling margarine which I do not use. I am a whole milk, natural butter consumer.
I don’t think it is possible to avoid GMO products anymore. The choices are too cumbersome for me.
I guess I am lazy.
Well, I have lived a long life, not that concerned about extending it indefinitely anyway.
In fact, I am like a child that says “I just want to go home”. I want to go home now. If I stroke out today, great, or tomorrow or the next day, no worries. I’ll get to go home.
GMO is a government plot to take over our minds and bodies and control us.
Each cell of the GMO food has a minicomputer chip implanted in it that is commanded by NSA working with the IRS and HHS to take control of us.
In addition they can see and record whatever we see and hear as they do with our computers and phones.
In fact hear it calling now, trying to fight it ‘AHHH, stop it.......let go...NOOOO ...must sign up for ACA....”
George Soros is a big investor in Monsanto, so how could there be anything wrong?
This is a complex issue, and not one I trust our thoroughly corrupt government to handle properly. The idea of rice genetically modified to provide vitamin A does seem appealing. On the other hand the idea of food crops genetically modified to absorb massive amounts of pesticides or even produce their own pesticides is troubling.
5 years ago no one ever heard of Gluten intolerance or Celiac disease.
Now it’s pretty common place and a lot more people have digestive problems but haven’t linked it to wheat yet. I’m not referring to the fad dieters. I’m talking about people who eat wheat and seriously suffer for it.
I’m pretty sure there is a link between the GMO wheat and the fact that a rising number of people can no longer eat it.
It is not a secret. Most foods are, and have been for years. But simply, ill-informed hysterical customers could be pointlessly scared away, thinking that "GMO" is code for some eevil poison.
There’s a major difference between hybrids and Genetic Modification.
To create hybrid vegetables, breeders select desirable characteristics from two or more unique parent plants (of the same genus, species or variety) and cross-pollinate them in a controlled environment to create a plant with the best features of the parent plants.
GMO is a variety that contains one or more genes from an entirely different species and is genetically altered using molecular genetics such as gene cloning and protein engineering. They often combine dna from plants with those of animals, fish, and insects.
This article is a purposfully written to confuse the reader and associate harmless hybridazation that has occured since the beginning of recorded history, and a Dr. Moreau science that created all kinds of crazy combinations. In short GMO is playing God.
I am going to guess that the threat of starvation (or actual starvation) will reduce the resistance to genetically modified crops, for better or for worse.
When you either starve, or have to eat things that you remove from the trash to eat, whether it is genetically modified or not becomes less important.
For better or for worse.
Because of the extreme prejudice against GMO brought about by the irrational hysteria of the anti-GMO factions. If you want a good example, consider "pink slime," a perfectly good food product whose name alone brought it down.
"Seminis® Performance Series™ sweet corn provides excellent protection against damage by European corn borers, corn earworms, fall army worms and corn rootworm larvae, as well as resistance to Roundup agricultural herbicides for weed control.""Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides. Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate."
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gmo-sweet-corn-variety-coming-soon.aspx
The people that control the food can control the people.
It’s always about Control.
Possibly true except for the fact that there is no commercially sold GMO wheat on the market, nor has there ever been.
Celiac run in the females of my family and I think that until the past 10 years or so, it was simply written off as other things.
There is no GM wheat in production. Some research has been done in the area and there have been tests, but no one has commercialized a GM wheat trait.
I'm not picking on you here, but most of the problem in the GMO wars is rooted in misinformation that is spread, often deliberately, by oppenents with a hidden agenda.
As long as it’s labeled - no problem.
For example, tuna packed in water that isn’t actually in water but in a broth made with soy. http://www.bumblebee.com/products/tuna/bumble-bee-solid-white-albacore-in-water/ That’s a problem because it’s a lie.
Same with GMO. Label it. Don’t conceal the fact that the corn was drenched with Roundup.
I don’t really care what it is, just so long as it is what the label says it is.
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