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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Boy, that’s tellin’ me.
Would you care to expound on the differences in farming practices most commonly used in the US vis-à-vis those in Africa?
I really think he meant something that desperately impoverished people do. I can see that.
When you have nothing but your two hands you make do with what you have.
And most of Africa IS desperately poor.
Are you disparaging the value of people who work with their hands?
Are you suggesting that all real Americans sit behind a desk in their Ivory Towers and cry out, “Thank you God that I am not like these day laborers?”
I have cattle ranched in 3 states, and grain farmed in 2, and done as much or more day labor than most. My point was, what do you know about production agriculture and scientific studies? I have done, and do, both.
Ah, here we go with the race-baiting. Tell us ms, what do most Africans do?
And that has nothing to do with the fact that there is a shortage in Africa of genetically modified crops.
FWIW most family owned Farmers in this country barely get by. That is why they end up selling the Family Farm to Con Agra and moving to the cities.
I for one believe that America is a poorer nation because the heartland of America is being sold to international crony corporations.
Don't lose an argument and then get all weepily pious on us.
I certainly won’t argue with that statement.
It's not the material that's necessarily damgerous, it's the chemical constitution and the dosage.
Example: Chlorine is a deadly poison. Sodium chloride is table salt.
So far Mark, you are the little boy with his finger in the dike on this.
Do you see significant movement in high places to latch onto your technology?
Actually I don't think anyone bothered to ask. From my standpoint, asbestos related lung disease is no worse or better than silicosis, black lung, or any of the myriad of respiratory problems suffered by people doing their jobs as assigned to them and many actually liking it.
I worked several tears in a steel foundry with no mandatory hearing or respiratory protections until 1989! This is long after the asbestos law suits. The company, and everyone there new it was dangerous and could make you sick down the road. people were informed of respiratory issues in sandblasting and related shipyard work in the 19th century, I know this for a fact.
Companies knew, people knew and nobody cared because it was a world full of risks and these issues were fairly minor compared to other diseases that you could not cure or control. Asbestos has been mined for 4000 years!
So add a little context to your disdain for companies and scientists that you seem to think made either a grievous error or were lying about it, because they were not. Nor were Tobacco companies intentionally trying to make their customers sick. Today it seems that everyone forgets that when you defend yourself against accusations of negligent homicide that you use words or phrases like "no evidence of danger" and the like in the courtroom. That does not mean they intentionally killed or gave their customer diseases for profit.
But today....everything is hyperbolic. Today it's all about using the most dramatic language and imagery to infer someone else is at fault for all the errors society makes. Nobody ever looks in the mirror.
It never crosses their mind. But it does mine.....
If there were any way of telling you anything that you don’t want to know.
It’s out there. Trouble is. You just don’t know where.
Tip of the iceberg.
P-Marlowe didn’t lose any argument, you did.
Their "scientific studies" were doctored, much like the global warming studies. You can hire scientists to do scientific studies to get the results you want. Any scientific study on product safety that is paid for by the product manufacturer is suspect.
Just because you have a science degree, you are not immune from being a whore.
Yeah, because of your combined mastery of the subject matter, no doubt.
No testing?
That’s a inane statement...There is years of research on everything.
Here’s a place to start, but I am sure you prefer to get your information from someone who agrees with you.
http://www.monsanto.com/products/Pages/biotech-technical-publications.aspx
I think you are the Daily Kos; either that or you write their scripts.
The professorate is interested but fearful. I've hosted representatives from UC Davis, Stanford, and a number of local agencies and native plant groups. So the word is getting out, but so far, I have not seen much action.
Realize however that I tried to keep things quiet until our results were undeniable. Only for the last few years have I been tooting the horn about what we have achieved. I will be putting more documentation on the Web this year in a totally reconfigured array of sites, so I will at least have serious material to which to direct inquiries.
We'll see. It's all I can do for now, especially until the girls graduate next year. Then it's grad school for both of them, guaranteed.
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