Posted on 08/23/2015 7:40:52 PM PDT by RushingWater
Local doctors are in the eye of a storm swirling for the past three years over whether corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides is a source of prosperity, as companies claim, or of birth defects and illnesses
Pediatrician Carla Nelson remembers catching sight of the unusually pale newborn, then hearing an abnormal heartbeat through the stethoscope and thinking that something was terribly wrong.
The baby was born minutes before with a severe heart malformation that would require complex surgery. What worried her as she waited for the ambulance plane to take the infant from Waimea, on the island of Kauai, to the main children’s hospital in Honolulu, on another Hawaiian island, was that it was the fourth one shehad seen in three years.
In all of Waimea, there have been at least nine in five years, she says, shaking her head. That’s more than 10 times the national rate, according to analysis by local doctors.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Or maybe it’s all the pot they smoke.
Correlation is not causation.
So far, this is scaremongering and junk science.
Started reading.
Then saw the source.
Stopped reading.
Sorry, The Guardian and Earthjustice just don’t cut it.
It can’t possibly be related to street drug use and venereal diseases. Must be pesticides.
I am certain that you are on to something. I don't have any links right now... but there have been numerous studies that have shown that pot smoke causes chromosome damage. There have also been studies that have shown that children of mothers who are pot smokers have a much higher incidence of autoimmune disorders such as Lupus.
I know so many people who have had problems related to their pot smoking both mental and physical. They will acknowledge that they have a problem, but they will not give up the pot under any circumstances. Yet we are told by activists that it is not addictive.
“Corn’s uses are as industrial as its cultivation: less than 1% is eaten. About 40% is turned into ethanol for cars, 36% becomes cattle feed, 10% is used by the food industry and the rest is exported.”
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Subsidies and foolish laws - bad fuel, damaged engines, poorer mileage, higher food prices.
AND bad tasting sugar, obesity.
Pesticides kill pests not plants so why would you genetically modify the plant to resist pesticides?
GMO food ping
Oh right...the corn that all of the USA eats is causing birth defects only in Hawaii, where 4 generations of mothers have been getting stoned on illegal narcotics at the highest percentage of any state.
“Correlation is not causation.”
Its not even a correlation, just hysteria. At a minimum you would need to know the amount of exposure, or body burden of parents of children with birth defects compared to others.
“...corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides ...
Pesticides kill pests not plants so why would you genetically modify the plant to resist pesticides?”
So you dont have to spray pesticides which saves money.
Exactly. It should be illegal for journalists to pose as scientists by writing crap like this.
So is it the smoking that is the problem, as opposed to, say, eating it in a brownie?
I have read there’s a lot more tar in pot than tobacco. I also wonder about all the chemical fertilizers that commercial pot growers drench their plants with in an attempt to boost yield.
That makes no sense. If you wanted to do that you would modify the plants to resist pests not pesticides. How can a plant resist a pesticide anyway? Pesticides don’t hurt plants
“That makes no sense. If you wanted to do that you would modify the plants to resist pests not pesticides. How can a plant resist a pesticide anyway? Pesticides don’t hurt plants”
You are correct. What I meant to say was that the plants are modified to resist pests so they either dont have to spray or can use less pesticide. I suspect the comment in the article about pesticide resistant crops was a mis-quote or mis-statement.
Yes, I know.
I suspect the comment in the article about pesticide resistant crops was a mis-quote or mis-statement.
A'yup! That's more like it.
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