Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
What kind and level of safety do we want? Shouldn't we define that, first of all?
. You bandy that term "fundamentalism" around quite a bit. Don't overuse it or it wll lose meaning. I want food that's *more* nutritious than produced as the end result of years of stripping topsoil by overuse of precious resources like growing grain to feed cattle instead of ranging the cattle, which reduces profits, mono-cropping (only useful for profit making) and then attempting to replace that topsoil with a plethora of chemicals that mimic real soil, which at the end of that sorry petrochemical path, requires *alleged* GMO resistance (it doesn't work, see below) to the pesticides needed to grow anything in that beaten down inorganic soil, not MORE quantity of less nutritious food. That means y'all can just take those gmos and shove them because the only advantage created by them nutritionally is to the CEOs etc at the genetics companies and in the petrochemical industry who eat quite richly because of large scale hoaxes like the alleged efficiency of GMO crops, not even the agbiz (unless they are invested in the gm or chemical industry) makes anything out of it... <http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1199339.ece> It doesn't get rid of plant pests, it causes more... <http://indiaenews.com/2006-07/16353-bt-drives-boom-warn-scientists.htm> ...and the developing economies and nations get to be the guinea pigs.... What's new? <http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/5F4EECA9A12FE7A1862571B70018B028?OpenDocument> So tell me... What would I want GMOs for? They are truly a major part of the problem, because they offer no solution at all, except to the people who make money raping the planet. Like the money invested in war, there are better uses for the research dollars. I'd like to dedicate the following quote, and re-apply it, to the frankenfood industry: .
"We believe that your way of life itself is unnecessary, ugly, and un-American. We cannot condone your present operations; they should be wiped off the slate." -- Paul Goodman, October 1967 Speaking to the National Security Industrial Association (The Military Industrial Educational Complex)
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