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1 posted on 06/03/2014 12:38:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

After posting this article, the editorial staff at WaPo went to their favorite organic, non-GMO bistro for lunch.


2 posted on 06/03/2014 12:40:45 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: SeekAndFind
asininity

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.

3 posted on 06/03/2014 12:42:37 PM PDT by PapaNew
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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?


4 posted on 06/03/2014 12:46:41 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The irony is that the liberals pushed GMO food to begin with via open support of “agribusiness” crony “capitalist” companies.

The move away from family farms and towards industrialized farming is actually in the Communist Manifesto:
  1. 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.
  2. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
  3. 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. …
So even GMO is part of that, and the propaganda against it now is a tactic for chaotic division and conquest.
5 posted on 06/03/2014 12:47:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


6 posted on 06/03/2014 12:49:27 PM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: SeekAndFind; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
RE :Washington Post: Can we please cut it out with all of this anti-GMO asininity?

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....”

7 posted on 06/03/2014 12:52:43 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. I won. ')
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


8 posted on 06/03/2014 12:55:46 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


9 posted on 06/03/2014 12:56:21 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


11 posted on 06/03/2014 1:02:39 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
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Should "Roundup Ready" corn be labeled so you can make an informed decision?
"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


15 posted on 06/03/2014 1:07:00 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: SeekAndFind

GMO and hybridized plant species are not the same. Never in history has man crossed frogs with tomatoes, or bacteria with wheat; until now. The results are not well understood or even examined with much thoroughness required of every other product peddled in any or every market worldwide.

GM plants, like another hybrid, spread their new genetic material across the horizon, altering whatever they are compatible with, and here in the US, the SOCTUS has ruled that any grain resulting from patented proprietary GM, are rightfully property of their creators.

Get it now?


21 posted on 06/03/2014 1:22:06 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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“Regrettably ideology defeated sound science and common sense in Jackson County,” Barry Bushue, president of the Oregon Farm Bureau
32 posted on 06/03/2014 1:56:47 PM PDT by Holdem Or Foldem (Life isn't fair, so wear a cup.)
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