Posted on 05/30/2013 8:00:45 PM PDT by Ron C.
Japan, the largest market for U.S. wheat exports, suspended imports from the United States and canceled a major purchase of white wheat on Thursday after the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon.
How the altered crop made its way to the Oregon field remains a mystery. The strain was developed by Monsanto to make wheat resistant to the company’s own industry-leading weed killer. Monsanto tested the type of altered seed in more than a dozen states, including Oregon, between 1994 and 2005, but it was never approved for commercial use.
Yet the Agriculture Department reported that recent tests identified the strain after an Oregon farmer trying to clear a field sprayed Monsanto’s herbicide, Roundup, and found that the wheat could not be killed.
The report rattled U.S. wheat markets. In addition to Japan’s action, the European Union, which imports more than 1 million tons of U.S. wheat a year, said that it was following developments “to ensure E.U. zero-tolerance policy is implemented.” It asked Monsanto to help detection efforts in Europe.
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I don’t need more lies; you may have a different tolerance level to bullshit.
People have been messing with wheat since the very dawn of time. Messing with wheat is what allowed mankind to form societal relationships.
But evil bastards haven’t always “messed” with wheat.
I'll bet they've all been bought of by the international Masonic-Bilderberger Cabal.
We are watching the world change very rapidly, and evil on an unprecedented scale as we hurtle toward catastrophe. Other than that, nothing much has changed since the Goldwater days.
I have used hundreds of gallons. Roundup has done more for conservation tillage practices than those with an understanding of production agriculture have seen in a century.
I was wondering, are you a day laborer, or do you have a profession?
When we have the famines prophesied for the future, they will be caused by Monsanto, not alleviated by Monsanto. The chemical geniuses have it all backwards.””
Small point: 7 billion people populate the planet. Do ya think this might play into your thinking?
Are you going to answer the residue concentration question? How much is there?
You didn’t answer the question. Do you want to have a discussion or not? Research level 1 institutions get most grant money from the NIH, NSF, EPA and the like, not Monsanto. Even if they do, Monsanto funds some very high-level, high-tech science. Clearly, you have no scientific research experience.
The peer of a liar is just another liar.
You’ve left no doubt on where you stand on this; are you one of the peers?
I don’t use tobacco. Nor do my family members. Why are you sending me this? I seldom take a drink of alcohol. Where are you on alcohol consumption? Is it bad for your health and do you use it?
7 billion on a planet large enough for 70 billion if your kind weren’t on the loose.
We managed to feed nearly six billion prior to GMO foods. Most famines were related to political upheaval and intrigue.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/16/india-rice-farmers-revolution
Once more, for effect.
Lots more here:
http://sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/
Conventionally grown plants on left, SRI plants on right:
lots more great photos and examples at the cornell site.
So, if I go look up the researchers involved and the institutions responsible for this research will I find that any of them got more than 5 figures of money from Monsanto, Syngenta or Bayer?
(Based on AG schools in the US I already know the answer to that)
Ah, someone that knows about agriculture. I can’t think of a herbicide that doesn’t develop resistant weeds to continuous application—this is the reason one must rotate herbicide class use.
There has never been, and never will be, any testing of GMO crops.””
YOu don’t have a clue.
The Bt pregnant paper had some of that information. I thought it killed 2 birds with one stone.
Are we not mammals? If we concentrate it other animals don’t?
I farm some of the same ground that my great-great grandfather did 150 years ago so I kinda have a feel for which practices work and which don’t. The practice of making a demonstrably false claim and then claiming your detractors are all liars is an interesting one, by the way.
I think you belong at the Daily Kos.
You asked what the cigarette companies did to addict their users. Lots of stuff as it turns out. They weren’t behaving ethically.
Neither is Monsanto.
We don’t have capitalism here. Probably not since around the Civil War. Definitely not since the formation of the fed.
Seems a rather obvious conclusion, doesn’t it.
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