Thanks Fred,
Only trouble is, the American law promotes the GM food cartel by keeping
its secrets and making the revealing of those secrets a 'violation' of the
law. Our food industry willfully conceals the presence of these poisons and
fights in the legislatures and the courts any attempts to force these
activities into the light of day.
So if we want to boycott food, we should boycott all American food, as
most is produced by a small group of monopolists anyway, and if these pigs
want to conspire together, let them go broke the same way. Meanwhile lets
try to outlaw the hog factories. They caused the phiesteria outbreaks in the
eastern tidewater states a few years ago. Their economics of scale are
a zero sum game where the monopolist has found a way to unbalance it
in his favor by taking all the profits for himself and dumping the
environmental and other costs on the local economy and ecology-----he
rakes in the money while the communities rake out the shit in their basements
and their rivers and creeks.....his shit. Oh gawd I said a cuss word.... but
millions of tons of hog manure dumped out of cheap lagoons in even a minor
flood, as happened in eastern North Carolina over and over again from their
hog factory operations is a far worse cuss word. These worthies who did
this to their communities even had the nerve to ask for and recieve tax funds
to rebuild their operations .....SO THEY COULD DO IT AGAIN!!!
We are the biggest suckers in the world. Is it any wonder we have the most
casinos? Look at the Detroit Tigers. In the late 1990's and up to 2002 they
were the dead last worst team in all of the history of baseball....and they
convinced, in the dead of this career of ignominy, the taxpayers of Detroit
to skip proper financing of their school systems and instead build the Tigers
a brand new stadium for many tens of millions of dollars at taxpayer expense
for their private profits! Check it out!
On Sunday 11 July 2004 05:43, Frederick Sparber wrote:
> 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
