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Scientists warn of link between dangerous new pathogen and Monsanto’s Roundup (Vilsack)
ActivistPost.com ^ | February 21, 2011 | Rady Ananda

Posted on 02/25/2011 5:31:05 PM PST by bronxville

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To: bronxville

I don’t know anything about Trader Joe or his food.

My family has farmed in this county in TX since 1886. There were no towns, railroads or improved roads then. They managed to make a living for their families in a very harsh invironment. Water was a very scarse commodity, many resorted to cisterns for drinking water.

The current bill that Obozo signed into law exempts small producers, BUT that is on food production. If you process it in any way, there is no out.

I received a letter from my congressman (he voted against it) with some reassurances, but he said he still had issues with the legislation.

This one is an horror, sold on the basis of combatting Terrorism on our food supply. I have read that there will be 15-17,000 new FDA food inspectors due to this bill.

And this is not discussed in the MSM. And it is exceedinly difficult to track what they did. A Voice Vote in the Senate, can you believe that. They did not want anyone to know how they voted on this piece of steaming crap. Later they did a roll call vote, I have that tally stored.


121 posted on 02/25/2011 8:30:40 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Cold Heart

Thanks Cold Heart. I’m relieved that the Chinese aren’t involved and the cost of the food isn’t too bad. Going back tomorrow for more. :)


122 posted on 02/25/2011 8:53:04 PM PST by bronxville
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To: Sherman Logan
Apparently quite a few freepers are equally anxious to believe in a government/industry conspiracy to destroy our food supply.

You are basing your opinion on an entirely uninformed assumption. Nice analytical work there.

The fact is that this article hasn't convinced anyone of anything. It is the dozens of other things that Monsanto has done, that are well-proved, in concert with the government that makes this article something to pay attention to. That in no way means that anyone is swallowing it without any doubts.

123 posted on 02/25/2011 8:58:42 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Texas Fossil

“My family has farmed in this county in TX since 1886.”

Yes, and they were able to eke out a living - same as most families all over the world - even Africa - we all survived. As did my own family in Ireland. So how come we’re becoming so dependent? Aren’t we all being herded into this dependency? It reminds me of the Irish Famine which wasn’t a real famine per se - the Irish had the food, it was taken by the Banksters and shipped to England. The Irish, in turn, having no food were too weak to work as serfs thus thrown off their masters estate (where they lived in hovels (there are pictures - also some of people dying in the ditches) nothing much has changed in regards to these greedy evil pigs.

Thousands more government workers - inspectors - just what we need. More regulations! I’m glad you have a decent rep. and thanks for keeping a good eye out. Obama’ rich guides have had these plans for over a century. They’ve been implementing them under stealth by our crooked politicians over time. Today they’re out in the open with Obama doing their bidding. We’re in for a very bumpy ride. I’m glad I have my faith and when I remember turn it over to God though take it back...and turn it over...and take it back...


124 posted on 02/25/2011 9:27:09 PM PST by bronxville
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To: little jeremiah
Thanks for the ping, lj! It is within my interest, but not my area of expertise. I have objections to the way cross-contamination of crops is being handled, and especially the way that the person whose crops are contaminated not only has little or no redress over that, but faces established precedent of being held liable for damages perpetrated upon them by outside agents. They not only don't get the crop they planted, but are penalized for contamination by outside sources. That was the first flag for me in the whole issue.

As for the micro fungus, I'm waiting to see what is up with that.

Any organism of that sort could become airborne as a pathogen, in even the finest dust, and pose a problem for everyone.

I'm terribly leery of messing around with the very bread on our tables when the only upsides I see are for those who control agriculture and seek to confiscate vast tracts of land. While that may be a win-win for them and the progenitors of such policy as Agenda 21, we and our progeny stand to lose.

In the meantime, I'm adding more things to my list of stuff to stock...

125 posted on 02/25/2011 9:28:04 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Will do...nite, nite.


126 posted on 02/25/2011 9:37:49 PM PST by bronxville
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To: maine-iac7

The very real danger is that the pollen from these crops migrates and contaminates non-GM and they destroy the land - not to mention that if you have say, 100 acres on NON-GMO crops and their pollen blows over onto your corn - THAT corn and IT”S SEED now legally belong to Monsanto!

“Whoever hasn’t seen “Food, Inc.” - that’s a good place to start in learning the very evil plan to control the worlds food supply. (In addition, I could tell you how much and how far - this gov’t has gone in setting up a plan to nationalize the trucking industry.
The motto of despots forever: “Who controls the food, controls the people.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmIEEQOHpY

this is part 1 - watch the others for the full show “

Thanks maine - missed your post earlier - marking it for tomorrow.


127 posted on 02/25/2011 9:47:12 PM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville
" self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-sized organism "

If it's "virus-sized", it's not a fungus. I read the report , and he said that. There is a limit in the size of organisms. Either it's a virus or it's a fungus. It can't be both at that size. Perhaps it's a virus that causes a fungus-like disease. In any case, for a plant pathologist to make a statement like that is just absurd. That makes me doubt the rest of his article.

128 posted on 02/26/2011 12:21:46 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: bronxville

This is the funniest thread I’ve seen here in a long time.

Thanks for the laugh!


129 posted on 02/26/2011 12:28:04 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Sherman Logan
I agree. See my last post here. It sounds like some virus that shows up with fungus-like symptoms. I might believe that some virus has picked up some genes from Roundup-resistant plants or bacteria, but fungi don't get that small - the size of a "medium-sized virus" (from the article).
130 posted on 02/26/2011 12:29:46 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: truthfreedom

The BPA scare has been pretty well disproven.


131 posted on 02/26/2011 12:34:29 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: old curmudgeon

Most of his papers have to do with the fact that Roundup inhibits the intake of magnesium and other micronutrients from the soil. That might be correct, but I’m not sure that qualifies him to say that there is a new form of life that threatens everyone. He should have stayed in his area of expertise.


132 posted on 02/26/2011 12:39:25 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: bronxville

One toke over the line. In other words I aint buyin what you sellin.


133 posted on 02/26/2011 1:03:48 AM PST by Nooseman (mutt)
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To: bronxville

The new form of surfdom? (Hayek’s “the road to surfdom” ??)

When I was young you were told the bankers were supported by the Republican party /sarcasm (hee hee hee), now we have a “natural born” Commie sleeping at 1600 Penn. Ave. and deliberately destroying the nation, wearing the Dem label.

This is not about a political party, but about freedom of men. We had another period where evil rose to this level just prior to WWII. Sobering.

Some of my ancestors claimed Scotch/Irish ancestry, but we have no evidence of where that came from. A mistrust of centralized government was part of their being even then.

Our system of government was devised to reduce the tendency for abuse of power by dividing that power. The founders were very wise men. That system is being tested. This threat is not external, but internal.

The oath the POLs took:

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

5 U.S.C. §3331


134 posted on 02/26/2011 4:25:40 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I read a number of the replies on this thread and I have an idea. Let’s send this to all the arab countries.


135 posted on 02/26/2011 6:07:27 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: bronxville

No second term for soetoro. He will have destroyed the country by the end of one.


136 posted on 02/26/2011 6:16:43 AM PST by onedoug (If)
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To: Marty62

A consious decision to cause a food crisis?

&&&
As evil as Sunstein and the gang are, I have a hard time believing Monsanto would sign onto this. What would they get out of it?


137 posted on 02/26/2011 6:45:29 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I don’t think so. Just because some people have no problem with feminizing chemicals doesn’t mean feminizing chemicals are good and should be on the market. What modern advances would we be missing if Bisphenol A was banned? I’d like to see teflon gone as well.


138 posted on 02/26/2011 6:50:13 AM PST by truthfreedom
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To: Texas Fossil

serfdom.


139 posted on 02/26/2011 6:51:38 AM PST by truthfreedom
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To: Sherman Logan

Please ping me if you post any more info. I am very interested in learning the truth about all of this. Thanks.


140 posted on 02/26/2011 6:56:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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