Posted on 10/30/2009 5:38:44 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
I agree 100% It’s just that it is nice to have the heirloom seeds around to go back to! A failsafe if you like!
Cheers
Mel
They have a repository somewhere, I think it is Norway. I have a few heirlooms myself and could multiply them in a year.
The responses are still abysmal and feed a belief that GMOs are a solution to hunger or nutritition. The article is pure crap and just a few Google videos from a search for “GMO dangers” would present that view. There is no way to take on the propaganda in just a few words, but I am well read on it and this is a society where beliefs and conclusions are funneled into people’s heads. This piece is black propaganda no matter how such a statement gets diverted, deflected and diluted. This this 2009 and people should have a broad understanding of GMOs already because it is something they are eating everyday.
If you don’t know the oppositional information, don’t you think you should hunt it down?
I would keep a hold of them - propogate every couple of years to keep fresh stocks etc. Might be worth something one day!
Mel
It is in Norway: Svalbard
My husband was close to it recently but no one can get in, heavily guarded which is understandable.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925343.700
Wow! Great turnin' o' the phrase!
I think you’re right, they see starvation in Africa as having a useful purpose.
However, I think it goes beyond even that. The real Greenies hate humanity in general and everything they do is directed at returning us to the dark ages, with their famine and disease, hoping that this will exterminate the human race altogether. While they may be considered “extreme environmentalists,” there are more of them than you think, and they have gotten a lot of power. IIRC, one of Bambi’s advisors referred to humanity as a “cancer on the face of the earth.” And I’m sure the NGO’s are stuffed with them.
Africa is just the first step.
Livius, I agree a high-profile sector of the environmentalist movement places the environment above the human race. If humans must die, “so let it be written, so let it be done.” They have been in dangerous positions of authority since the popularity of Paul Ehrlich in the 1970s, and now his co-author John Holdren is Obama’s science czar. We are in deep trouble.
We certainly are. You'd think the simple instinct for self-preservation would keep these people from hating and trying to destroy the whole human race, but it doesn't seem to bother them in the least. And they're in power now.
Of course, the Devil has always been the power of nothingness, of the void, of death, so I guess that's where they're getting their power from.
“search for “GMO dangers” would present that view. “
Sorry, but people who think this are loons.
You brought up a second issue about the control that Monsanto and other companies have amassed over the genetic supply. I would partially agree, as Monsanto has been very heavy handed.
Two thoughts - All food is genetically modified. If you look at agricultural practices from a historical perspective on long known “bread basket” areas, you will probably see this practiced manually for several hundred years. Wind, rain and other elements have probably helped the process since the dawn of the plant.
Second, this is my favorite quote:
Al Gore has worried, “The most lasting impact of biotechnology on the food supply may come not from something going wrong, but from all going right…we’re far more likely to accidentally drown ourselves in a sea of excess grain.”
So what if we do?
“Bill Gates kinda does have enough money to bankroll his own food
and aid airdrops into Africa...”
No matter what food is on the airdrop pallets...each pallet needs to
have a couple AK-47s, maybe an RPG and plenty of ammo.
Along with visual instructions on how to operate the weapons.
And an exhortation to KILL any warlord’s troops that arrive to take
the food and sell it on the black market.
So much of the hunger in Africa derives from the bad actors diverting
and selling the donated food and pocketing the money from selling it.
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