Posted on 01/26/2022 6:31:05 AM PST by grundle
Neil Young: Grammy-award winning musician and GMO-hater?
That’s the clear message from Young’s latest album, released earlier this summer.
“The Monsanto Years,” opens with “A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop.” “Yeah I want a cup of coffee but I don’t want a GMO,” croons Young—and the hypocrisy is rich.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a child, Young’s life depends on insulin which is produced using genetic engineering. Prior to the 1970s, insulin was harvested from the pancreases of slaughtered pigs. Today genetically engineered microbes are used to “manufacture” insulin that’s far safer, more humane and cost-efficient.
“Monsanto, let our farmers grow what they wanna grow,” sings Young. Yet non-organic farmers on large and small farms overwhelmingly maintain that they choose to use GE crops in their fields because of the benefits they provide. After all, a meta-analysis shows that GM technology increased crop yields, reduced pesticide use, and increased farmer profits. Forced to grow these crops against their will? Hardly.
In addition, Young released a YouTube documentary as a follow-up to his album. Titled, “Seeding Fear: The Story of Michael White vs. Monsanto.” “It’s just not morally or economically right to be able to patent anything that reproduces,” White laments in the video. In reality there are thousands of patented plants including organic varieties. The documentary is just emotionally-tinged hype.
Every scientific oversight organization in the world agrees that GMOs are safe and environmentally friendly. Denying the evidence is no better than paranoia. Neil Young, don’t succumb to paranoia. Speak with farmers, mothers, and science advocates. Learn about genetic engineering. And remember—GMOs keep you and millions of other diabetics alive every day.
Damn! Great example for the kids.
Wait till the mRNA vaccine alters his DNA — then he will be a walking GMO.
Neil has joined the maan. Spouting Biden’s horsesh!t. C’mon maan! I admire hippie freaks, but you’re just a sellout freak wearing a fedora. He has more in common with Barbra Streisand and freaking out and abusing his help than with rock music. Pussy tantrum with old man breasts. Old man take a look at my breasts I’m a lot like you.
Because "the man" is now big government socialists, not limited government like our country was founded on.
Yup!
They played a few years in a row at The Saratoga Performing Arts Center, I think late 70's or early 80's. Saw two shows. It was a great atmosphere walking around the grounds to that music, there's something soothing about it.
Did he mix heroin with his Novolog or Lantus insulins, back in the 70s & 80s?
They were the voice of a Woodstock and had talent
Crosby for voice and some lyrics
Young for guitar and unusual voice
Stills for all of it
Nash for voice and lyrics and being their Ringo....the nice guy having. Good time
I admit I was under thier
Long Time Gone was a siren call to young hippies like me
Was Neil Young known for using heroin? I was under the impression that weed and some coke were his drugs of choice. He wrote ‘The Needle and The Damage Done’ after Danny Whitten died (althgough I don’t think Whitten used heroin the particular night he died). Anyway, Young was pretty vocal about the dangers of heroin over the years.
I’d always heard the rumors that he did — his music sure sounded like it — but after some research now, you’re right. He didn’t. My error.
You have to wonder if all those drugs he took for 60 years we’re non-GMO.
Have you ever seen this.
Long Time Gone, with CSN&Y and Tom Jones! (Stephen on the organ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8
Not sure where I first saw it. I read a lot. Probably was somewhere in the innernets or in the NYT.
He tells the New York Times, “I did it for 40 years. Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”
https://torontosun.com/2012/09/19/neil-young-gives-up-drugs-and-booze
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/arts/music/neil-young-citizenship-marijuana.html
Neil Young has been sober for a year after drinking and smoking pot for decades, he reveals in a new profile in the New York Times. During a recent interview at his sprawling home in the redwood forest south of San Francisco, Young speaks about writing his upcoming autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, the many obsessions that have fueled his career and his decision to get clean.
“I did it for 40 years,” he says. “Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”
In the book, he elaborates: “The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself. I need a little grounding in something and I am looking for it everywhere.”
Yet the book – written despite Young’s onetime declaration that he would never write a memoir – features some requisite tales of rock & roll excess. The 66-year-old recalls being arrested for drugs with Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills, and he jokes about David Crosby’s legendary stash: “I still remember ‘the mighty Cros’ visiting the ranch in his van. That van was a rolling laboratory that made Jack Casady’s briefcase look like chicken feed. Forget I said that! Was my mike on?”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-opens-up-about-sobriety-204497/
Yes
And Jones kills it
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