Take heart Bear, when the consumers boycott ALL cereal, dairy, and meat products that contain GM corn, wheat, and soybeans, it will drive down the price of fuel alcohol, soy diesel and other biofuels. Then ADM will be able to compete with the fossil fuel energy interests. McTurnip, McCarrot, and Mr. Potato Head, franchises will pop up all over the place.
FJS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Standing Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:32 AM Subject: Re:Starlink Corn reply to mental vortexes of antinatter > On Saturday 10 July 2004 22:39, Frederick Sparber wrote: > > The Baron wrote: > > > > Snip > > > > Making a difference one person at a time > > Get informed. Inform others. > > You might start here,. > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=22671100 > > > > > > > > Unfit for humans > > > > Corn has been contaminated with a potentially harmful protein (Cry9C) > > > > A PESTICIDE gene only approved for use in maize for animal feed may have > > jumped into a corn variety destined for people. > > > > The discovery comes just two months after StarLink corn, which was > > engineered to contain the gene, turned up in foods such as taco shells, > > sparking a recall of about 800 different products in the US. > > > > The gene's product, Cry9C, makes maize more resistant to the European > > corn borer. Because of concerns that the protein might cause an allergic > > reaction in humans, StarLink can only be fed to animals. But Aventis > > CropScience, which developed StarLink, has now found traces in another > > variety. > > > > "Aventis CropScience does not know how Cry9C protein came to be present > > in a variety other than StarLink brand seeds," the company says in a press > > release. > > Oh boy! I can hear the lawyers shout from sea to sea. Now the Starlink folks > will start DNA testing of all the cornfields that they can find. They will be > literally able to farm all the farms in the country for blood money. New case law says > that if the the 'copyrighted' gene contaminates another crop, then the > farmers who own or manage the field where that crop is planted are liable to > lawsuit for copyright infringement and to prosecution for terrorism. The > seemingly ludicrous linkage has been through courts in this country in case > law. The standard 'settlement' extorted out of the victim farmers can be > as little as 30,000 dollars American or as high as one can imagine. The > victims have to sign confession of judgment contracts and mortgage their > farms and/or put up the farms as bond (in case they get contaminated again). > We grow a lot of seed corn around these parts in southern Michigan and all of > it is copyrighted, patented trash guaranteed to give one and only one good > producing season. The picked ears are sterile or give stunted unproductive > plants. Farmers are warned that saving some of the crop for next years > planting is against the law and punishable by 5 years in the state penn when > they try to use this 'seed' again. They have buy new hybrid seed every > year at inflated prices because their business models of their ag businesses > mandate a production rate attainable only with this seed in order to be able > to pay the debts of the operation on time. This monkey wrench in the > operation from these greedy monsters will drive thousands of farmers and > lower level corporate operations out of business. The only buyers for these > farms will be larger corporate operations or foreigners or the Amish. What > little land ends up in Amish control is saved and conserved as the Amish > have a respect for God and Nature. They do not use this poisoned seed, > but they will probably end up as victims of the Starlink scam when the > pollen from the copyrighted and patented stalks wafts on the wings of > malevolent winds over on their land, sweeping away their farms to large > corporations as well and their people into various penal systems. > > Suppose the problem 'grows' on its own...after all...it IS life! > > It will not stop there! Corn is a grass. Yes, a grass! A big grass, but still > a grass. Look it up in your nearest friendly botany book. There are many > grasses. All of them feed us in one way or another. 'Silent Spring' may > not be as far off as we think. This gene is part of life's programming now. > Who is to say that it may not mutate into another form that will better > protect the plant from harm. We HARVEST these plants all the time. What > better defense for nature to enact on her own than to give her little green > children a defense against US?! Yes! That little gene could mutate on > its own into a poison against humans, become a dominant gene and then > transmit itself to all grasses around the world......corn......rice......wheat.. > oats......sesame..... Talk to an Irishman about what his parents and grand > parents told him of stories told to them in turn concerning the Irish Potato > Famine of 1846-8. Have him tell you about people eating their shoes, > their pets, even their own dead. > > Suppose this gene has a latent toxicity that neither its developers nor > we know about, and that many of us are really walking dead as we ponder > this issue. We in America really have no choice but to eat this 'food'. It > is in the law that producers do not have to tell us about foods being genetically > modified. They can feed it to us in secret with no liability devolving on them. > ......kinda makes me look for the European Union stamp on my produce! > Even talking about it runs afoul of 'veggie libel' laws in Texas, as Oprah > Winfrey found out a few expensive years ago. > > Isn't it nice to see how big money can literally sow the wind? > > I wonder what we will all inherit? > > Bin Laden does'nt have to do a thing. We will do it to ourselves! > Character is probably dead, propped up like 'El Cid' by an unlikely > combination of terrorists for whom he is a 'saint', and American politicians > for whom he is 're-election' insurance. > > > Who is the 'terrorist' now? > > Spectator > >
