Dunno why that happens - I am still using the old version of yahoo mail called
the "Basic" version cause I can't stand the newer yahoo format - but from now
on I will eliminate those gaps if I am not feeling to lazy - its almost as
irritating as those who don't include the post they are replying to. Thanks for
pointing it out.
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On Sun, 3/9/14, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: GMOs threaten to end all life on Earth
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 7:14 PM
GMOs are a
rather dated concept dreamed
up before computers were ubiquitous. With the
advent of
computers and the Internet we can grow plenty of crops
without
them being genetically modified though the GMO crops
are modified
for one thing: profit. We now know how to grow
natural crops even
in the cities using technology. The only thing that
keeps this
from going viral is companies like Monsanto and big
agra who want
to hoard food profits.
BTW Michael, what are you using to post on FFL? At
least on email
there are often a lot of blank lines between the
header of the
post you are replying to the body of that message. I
don't see
this with any other posts here except yours.
On 03/09/2014 12:00 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
That's interesting in that I sort of
thought Fagan had
bowed out of the movement but I reckon not -
or maybe I
was thinking of Larry Domash
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On Sun, 3/9/14, salyavin808
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: GMOs threaten
to end all
life on Earth
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 4:07 PM
It doesn't mean anything in any real,
demonstrable sense.
It was one of those movement things where
someone
who is supposedly a top scientist in a field
promises us
the
latest info behind closed doors (wink, wink)
when he only
tells the public the stuff they would
understand. So I was
hoping for something profound but got a load
of cock and
bull about how DNA was created by
consciousness (yawn)
which
means that interfering with DNA affected the
expression of
enlightenment if you eat it. No, it
doesn't make
sense.
Luckily for Dr Fagan there are enough other
reasons to be wary and his public lecture was
very
interesting indeed. Stick to the facts,
that's what I
say. Leave all this spiritual mumbo jumbo to
the back
room.
Like he did. He's on tour again at the
moment but I
wouldn't be interested in hearing it
because I know
it's a front for his weirdo TM beliefs
about the
veda.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<mjackson74@...>
wrote :
Now what exactly
does that mean, "interfering with
consciousness and the
veda"???
Everything, according to the spiritual people
IS
consciousness, including the creation of GMO
crops and
their
very existence IS consciousness - it may not
be the best
manifestation of consciousness but they are
part of it
nonetheless. And how can one interfere with
the veda???
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On Sun, 3/9/14, salyavin808
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: GMOs threaten to
end all life
on Earth
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 7:08 AM
Taleb
expresses concern not for the potential health
effects of
GMOs but for the risk they carry of ending all
life on
Earth.
Yes, one does seem to outweigh
the other a bit.....
For example, if 100 new GM seed
types are produced, then that 0.1 percent
chance suddenly
becomes a 10 percent chance of global
life-ending
catastrophe.
Assuming the first calculation
is correct......
The draft form of the paper, "The
Precautionary Principle," is available to
download as
a
PDF document here.
Where?
I'd like to have a read if
you've got a link. My main objection is
actually the
fact that the world food supply will become
the regulated
property of a few biotech companies. Then you
have the
inevitable spread of modified genes into the
wild and all
the unexpected consequences that might have.
Most of it
seems pretty harmless though, but the worst
way of
fighting
it was the TMO's
reason.
I went to a lecture by John
Fagan, the TM scientist who campaigns against
it, in
public
he makes some interesting points but in
private it's
the
same old "interfering with consciousness
and the
veda" BS that he couldn't ever admit
to in public
without destroying all scientific credibility.
How to tell
when you're in a cult part 357: You have
to keep your
beliefs secret. See also
Scientology and Xenu.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<mjackson74@...>
wrote :
GMOs threaten to
end all life on Earth, risk engineering
professor and
investment expert warns
http://www.fool.com)Genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
threaten to cause "an irreversible
termination of life
at some scale, which could be the
planet," according
to
Nassim Taleb, an author and distinguished
professor of
risk
engineering at New York University who made a
fortune
after
disasters like September 11 and the Great
Recession.
Taleb recently made his feelings on GMOs known
in a paper
that is available to the public, though still
in draft
form.
Taleb expresses concern not for the potential
health
effects
of GMOs but for the risk they carry of ending
all life on
Earth. A single GM seed type has a miniscule
chance --
e.g.,
0.1 percent -- of causing the breakdown of the
ecosystem
that all life depends on, also called ecocide.
With this
one
type of seed, it is highly unlikely that total
ecocide
would
ever occur; however, with increasing amounts
of GM seed
varieties comes cumulative risk. For example,
if 100 new
GM
seed types are produced, then that 0.1 percent
chance
suddenly becomes a 10 percent chance of global
life-ending
catastrophe.
The associated risks vary for different seeds,
and a huge
number of factors are involved, but what
Taleb's paper
stresses is that these small odds add up over
time so that
"something bound to hit the [ecocide]
barrier is about
guaranteed to hit it."
Click here to read a report by The Motley
Fool's Brian
Stoffel explaining Taleb's paper in
greater detail. The
draft form of the paper, "The
Precautionary
Principle," is available to download as a
PDF document
here.
