I think a great example of why GMPO is bad is to look at India's experience with it. Thousands of farmers have committed suicide as a result of the loss of income resulting from crop failures with GMO crops and the cost of having to buy seed every year. Normally, farmers would save some of the seed to plant for the next year, but because of patent issues, they were not allowed to do so. GMO has nothing to do with what they are marketing it as...it has everything to do with Corporate profits for Monsanto.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 12:15 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: For those that are interested well...I was sort of against GM food in an abstract way before I read that, and kinda felt that well, if some of these strains can prevent food shortages possibly this might even be, relatively speaking, a good thing. But that paragraph really gave me pause. I don't want my intestinal flora to be Roundup-ready. Genetically modified corn that exchanges DNA with the nitty-gritty bits of my bodily functions??? Nonononono. Not to mention that if Monsanto gets wind of this they are liable to sue me for non-licensed use, bless their litigious and piratical souls. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > I'm totally on Sandra's side but I will note that not all GM > ingredients are created equally. There are some genetic modification > processes that are just meant to propagate a particular (identical) > strain, a clone if you will, that perhaps has characteristics (genetic > material) from a couple strains in that species. Then there are > genetic modifications that introduce designer sequences of genes that > don't really occur in nature. And then there are transgenic genetic > modifications, wherein a genetic sequence from one species is inserted > into the genetic code of another. This is the case, for example, with > bT corn where bacteria genes are spliced into corn. > > Monsanto, of course, doesn't want you to know about any of them and > doesn't want any of them regulated. They are pure evil. None the less, > there is likely substantially different risk profiles in the different > types of genetic modification and they shouldn't all be considered the > same. > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Sandra Clark <sclarkli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > And unfortunately 90% or more of the soy grown in the United States > > is GM soy. Most processed foods unless they are organic contain GM > ingredients. > > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Sandra Clark <sclarkli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Dana, > >> > >> Sad to say, but yes. > >> > >> Unfortunately for us, GMO's are not required to be labeled. > >> Monsanto > went > >> after dairy producers who chose to label their products as free > >> from > BST or > >> free from bGH, so food producers are afraid to label their foods as > NON-GMO > >> (tho some are doing so). > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> say WHAT??? > >>> > >>> "There is only one published human feeding experiment and that > >>> showed > that > >>> the genetic material inserted into GM soy transfers into the > >>> bacteria living inside our guts and continues to function." > >>> > >>> Whoa. Wait. Why.....wait. This is food that's on the market right now? > >>> > >>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Sandra Clark > >>> <sclarkli...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > > >>> > A few of you asked to be notified when I did another GMO article. > The > >>> > second of the series posted today. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > GMO Health Risks - > >>> > http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/2012/02/07/gmo-health-risks/ > >>> > > >>> > Previous > >>> > > >>> > Whats all the Fuss about GMO's > >>> > > >>> > http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/2012/01/24/whats-all-the-fuss-about-gm > os/ > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346613 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
