Posted on 12/11/2011 10:37:25 PM PST by acroagogue
Earlier this year, the USDA made a decision to allow the commercial use of “Roundup Ready” genetically modified sugar beets. The decision came a week after the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture approved the planting of a yet another genetically modified plant, alfalfa.
Michael Gregoire, deputy administrator of APHIS, a biotechnology regulatory service claims genetically modified sugar beets are safe and should be deregulated. “After conducting an environmental assessment, we have determined Roundup Ready sugar beets could be partially deregulated without posing a plant pest risk or causing significant effects on the environment,” says Gregoire. APHIS claims the partial deregulation of “Roundup Ready” sugar beets is just an interim measure until the company completes its full environmental impact statement.
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There is a diference between doing hybrids in the field and in the lab where you manually change the DNA to your liking. It would be like arguing Dolly the Sheep is the same as bred designer breeds of lamb that are rasied for food.
BFLR
May God guide our course.
Tatt
Was this by definition impossible with conventionally crossbred plants? Seems if they could find a stock A and a stock B of something like a tomato, such that A x B fertilization produces acceptable first generation plants whose second generation seeds don’t grow, then they have achieved their “evil” secret by utterly conventional means. Gene splicing and the like hastens this process, but I am not sold that it is absolutely necessary.
Was this by definition impossible with conventionally crossbred plants? Seems if they could find a stock A and a stock B of something like a tomato, such that A x B fertilization produces acceptable first generation plants whose second generation seeds don’t grow, then they have achieved their “evil” secret by utterly conventional means. Gene splicing and the like hastens this process, but I am not sold that it is absolutely necessary.
This sounds like misuse of Roundup. GM farmers should respect the needs of non-GM farmers and use ground level application if there is any possibility of wind drift. This would go for any weed control or pesticide which aids one crop while having the capacity to harm an adjacent crop, and where adjacent humans are exposed carelessly. This is a neighbor problem not a GM or Roundup problem.
Oy.
Are you aware that Mother Nature takes genetic code from unrelated organisms and splices it together ALL THE TIME?
Did you know that we have at least one WHOLE ENTIRE VIRUS patched into our DNA, and that we pass it along to every one of our children?
Genetic manipulation by DNA splicing is nothing new. All we humans have done is direct the process for our own purposes, instead of sitting back and letting it happen randomly.
I like what JRandomFreeper said. God gave me genius-level IQ so that I could direct the placement of genes into organisms in a way that benefits humanity. Cool.
FYI, every bit of genetic engineering that occurs in a lab is done with enzymes harvested from perfectly natural bacteria. All of our genetic engineering tools are produced by nature. We didn't invent any of it; we only learned to use it.
However, there has been some experimenting with population sterilization ( a UN favorite), and who knows what else.
What we do with the tools given us is based in our morality. The tools themselves have no intrinsic quality of good or evil; they merely exist. You can use a knife to chop up food to make a nice stew, or to kill someone in cold blood: the morality of how you use it is yours, not the knife's.
Oops, I wasn’t quite accurate here.
Enzymes used for genetic modification are harvested from bacteria and other kinds of organisms. Yeast and plants also provide those enzymes.
APHIS? I thought this was a little bug my late mother used to cuss that would get on her beautiful roses.
>> Isn’t it cool how we manipulate God’s creation in accordance with His giving us dominion over the earth, and the plants, and the animals and the fish? Opposable thumbs and big brains rock.
LOL! Right on!
This could turn out to be “post of the week”.
This isn’t about food. It’s about control of food.
By copywriting a strain of modified seed, then allowing that seed to infect all other seeds of it’s type, the company can thn say ‘all the seed containing our getetic code is ours’.
Think of any food type (corn,rice,soy) as a commodity. If you control all of it, you control the price and availability.
Henry Kissinger said;
“Control the oil, you control the nation. Control the food, you control the people.”
This is cotton country and I can assure you nobody saves seed they buy it pretreated and packaged in fact if they can create a strain of cotton that doesn't produce seed that would be a boom for the business and take out a big part of ginning. Maize and alfalfa are about the only other crops grown here and they also purchase the seed pretreated and packaged. I know of no one that commercially produces a crop that saves seed.
By copywriting a strain of modified seed, then allowing that seed to infect all other seeds of it’s type, the company can then say ‘all the seed containing our getetic code is ours’.
Bingo! Monsanto is the greatest threat to security and viability - period! Yet, they have managed to gain control of seed and food production worldwide without arrousing the suspicions of the majority of the sheeple. They employ private security forces which evade scrutiny and trample on property rights like the gestapo, yet are never called upon to answer for it. For those who want to learn about Monsanto, I recommend watching two documentaries: 'The World According To Monsanto' and 'Food Inc.'. You will cringe.
I have several friends who have had the "pleasure" of enduring run-ins with Monsanto over seed. Two of them grow nothing but non-GMO in their fields, but carryover and transfer from adjoining fields led some GMO plants to root in their fields - this is enough for Monsanto, with the help of the courts, to prevent them from saving their seed. They didn't plant it, but it is there, so it belongs to Monsanto.
Read about India's experience with Monsanto RR Soubean and other GMO's and the thousands of farmers who just gave up and committed suicide over Monsanto's tactics.
The majority of sheeple have no clue what is going on, nor do they care - the shelves are stocked with processed and refined crap, why should they?!? Yet, Monsanto marches on - seeking patents on genetic manipulations and controlling over 70% of our food supply.
Monsanto wouldn’t go through all the trouble of going to the Supreme Court to have the US Constitution altered via judicial fiat to change patent law on food/seeds stuffs so Monsanto could monopolized farming.
Exactly. Wind pollinated grains get contaminated by Monsanto’s Patented grain and the farmer that saved his own seed for decades now has to buy it. Where is the lawsuit against Monsanto for pollen contamination?
You cannot tell the difference.
Monsanto owns the courts. The little people don’t stand a chance.
You can tell by some of the replies here how people think everything is coming up roses.
Here’s a news flash: Unless your diet consistes exclusively of wild plants and animals, everything you eat is purposefully genetically modified from something else.
I refuse to answer the moo question. I am more concerned about the organisms used to gm my food. And... It’s tasteless, of questionable nutrition.
I refuse to answer the moo question. I am more concerned about the organisms used to gm my food. And... It’s tasteless, of questionable nutrition. If the body doesnt break things down to a genetic level, where do DNA catabolism products come from?
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