Big footprint.
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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Hand labor is what Africans do. Americans use their brainpower to make life a bit easier and far more productive.
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?””
So your point is that all research scientists are corrupt and generate fraudulent data. Wow, you are barely hanging on to the left side of the wing.
So, Missouri. Do you work for Monsanto or a subsidiary? Just wondering.
I worked with a bench chemist who’d previously worked for RJR. Heavy smoker when he was young. Died of esophageal cancer.
Send the citation and answer my previous questions. What is your profession or do you perform day labor?
The practice of turning your brain off before making any analysis appears to be SOP for you.
It is obvious to me, you have an understanding of production agriculture. These attacks on the food producers are not the usual to be expected from freepers who respect people who work hard and produce products we all need.
We don’t have capitalism here. Probably not since around the Civil War. ??
Really, so your life is not better than those who lived around the Civil War? Wow!
I know more about nicotine than you can imagine; including the structure, mechanism of action, MTD, and effective therapeutic intervention of said intoxication.
Problem is, there are too many arm chair farmers out there.
Face it. If the small farmers in the 3rd world become food sufficient or even food exporting, withOUT using GM or chemicals the US farmer might be in a sad way. Especially if the cost to transport grain stuffs becomes expensive due to higher oil costs.
And, they’re local. Transport costs for these crops is minimal. And there’s a certain amount of national pride in consuming that which your neighbor has grown. Ask the Japanese how this works. I double dog dare you to get the average middle aged Japanese housewife to buy foreign rice!
And those clever small plot farmers are already devising time and energy saving devices to assist them with this technique.
No longer will we have to export to these countries. They will feed themselves.
Whatever will Monsanto do?
And hand labor is actually good for you. It’s called exercise. Using our brains exclusively is one reason we all weigh 300lbs. Once hubby and I began to garden (and it uses only 1.5hrs a day, same time we’d spend to/at/from the gym!) we lost lots of weight! And save money too! 1.5hrs a day for 1.5 acres isn’t a bad trade. ‘Free’ food, exercise for free (gym is expensive!) and the idea that we know what we’re eating. What’s not to love? It’s family time for hubby and me. Beats camping all to death. Water seal flush potties are just inside the house!
Nope, not even connected. I do own a couple of farms, have ranched in Mo, Ks, and Oregon, have a DVM, and have been a research scientist for about 25 years. I have studied living systems for most of my life. So, you worked for a bench chemist, but have no degree? My undergrad degree is a BS in Chemistry. Thanks for answering one of my 5 questions.
Big footprint.
We certainly aren’t as free as a people as we were in the late 1800’s. That’s not even in question.
More stuff and tech? Sure. More free? Not on a bet.
Once government became for sale, wholesale, it’s been downhill.
So while my great grandmother didn’t have access to antibiotics and couldn’t vote. She COULD cut down any tree on her property at any time for any reason without a permit. She could add on to her house, without a permit. She could go to the general store and buy a belt fed machine gun. Without permit. And take it home.
Now, I have access to antibiotics and I can vote. I can NOT however, cut any tree on my property without permission. Nor can I add on to my house without a permit. And I certainly can’t buy a belt fed weapon without a class 3 license.
Which of us is/was better off and more free?
I wrote about pollen containment of RoundUp Ready genes in Natural Process.
Of course. To me, that is a given.
I am as pro-life as they come. I just think we would make more headway in the pro-life cause if we admitted there is a population problem that is causing our other problems. Most of my pro-life friends insist that there is no population problem.
We won’t make any real progress until we face the facts and start looking for ethical solutions.
Well, the US has 5% of the world’s population but is responsible for 15% of the global supply of food. I think farmers are good for a while. You might check the current price for corn and soybeans.
I raise a large vegetable garden myself and have 3 apple and 2 peach trees. I know about gardening and have been doing it for decades. I was a college wrestler and have maintained some fraction of what I once had in terms of athleticism, but my weight is maybe 4 lbs more than what it was when I married my wife 36 years ago. Never let myself get fat—you know the triad of human development—the spiritual, the mental, and the physical. I don’t camp because I like sound sleep. I do fish and hunt.
I worked WITH a bench chemist. I have a terminal degree.
I’ve seen safety studies pass ‘inspection’ that would curl your hair. I don’t, for example, take statins. For any reason. Under any circumstances. Neither do any of my former coworkers. Those safety studies are a joke. Bigtime. Didja ever wonder why most people who start out taking a statin eventually end up with t2d?
Do you think Merck didn’t know there was CV involvement with Vioxx? Sure they did. The whole industry knew that. The FDA was and is bought. Safety studies say what they’re paid to say.
As a DVM you see the pretty glossy fold out pamphlets developed by marketing. I saw the other side of those pamphlets. It’s ugly.
Just remember the government/business complex tells us that global warming is happening and not to be questioned.
Do you believe that too?
Those Indian farmers are exceeding by a factor of TWO or so the rice yields gotten by the rice farmers in Arkansas. For their sake I hope they succeed.
Wow, from a guy who had a difficult time putting together a coherent sentence that was a pretty good transition into a non sequitur.
That being said, the Bible says that day labor is the most honest of professions and that the workman is worthy of his hire.
For you to try to pretend that you are a superior human being because you are better than day laborers is the epitome of Ivory Tower arrogance. I expect that from limousine liberals, I don't expect it from conservatives.
What you are implying is that if my fingernails are dirty at the end of my workday, that I am not qualified to render an opinion.
Arrogance!
I agree with your assessment. I, too, found that post offensive even though I do hold a master’s degree & have a profession.
It dosen’t take a genius to see some scary stuff happening with GMOs and Monsanto’s crony capitalism.
That is one of the most blatantly racist posts I have ever read on this forum.
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