Seeds are mutating everyday in nature. That risk is unacceptable, we need to eliminate that risk.
Let's pave over the rain forest, to start, it's the only way to stay safe.
Posted on 04/01/2014 4:02:25 PM PDT by neverdem
hey Val Pal.
How come UCLA Med Centers stopped serving antibiotic fed meat per the LA Times? They must be REALLY crazy!
I don’t think you understand what I said. The EPA has defined the terms and rules so they can declare any and all livestock operations a CAFO anytime they want to, irrespective of reality and reason.
(Do you even know what CAFO means?) Non CAFO doesn’t mean GMO free and GMO Free doesn’t mean non CAFO. Livestock can be neither or both.
I buy meat by the whole live animal. Beef from a local farmer, lamb I raise myself and pork from the local 4H auction. Not because I fear CAFO meats but because it tastes better and costs less.
There is already a non-GMO label. It’s called Certified Organic. There is also a secondary voluntary GMO Free label as well.
What I object to is the movement by the Food Luddites to force a “contains GMO” labeling system. That’s BS. The current voluntary system lets both the farmers and the consumers that want to partake in that specialty market do so without cost to the those who don’t.
Demanding a non-voluntary system is simply trying to socialize the costly culinary choices of the fearful few onto everyone else.
It’s sleight of hand by the medical community. The number one cause of antibiotic resistant microbes is the over-prescription of them by doctors.
I also suspect another huge contributor to the problem is anal sex with a revolving door of treatment and re-infection.
Antibiotic use by farmers is merely a convenient whipping boy.
You may not have said anything about the EPA, but it is being used by your brethren nevertheless.
Just as the Luddites of old, who claim that they were ‘just trying to save the jobs’ by wrecking the industrial machinery, todays Food Luddites are ‘simply trying to protect consumers’.
Some attack the food production machinery with ‘labeling’, others attack from the angle of ‘saving the environment’, or maybe ‘animal rights’, and any other sabotage that works.
What they all have in common are the tools developed by the Left which they have become so skilled at using over the years. Regulatory agencies comb the countryside, forcing on producers and consumers the costs and burdensome labeling rules, land use requirements, livestock rules, and any number of food production destroying techniques.
Their (including quite a number of Freepers) goal is very simple; Destroy the greatest food producing machine the world has ever witnessed.
Since I may be gone for awhile, the answer to your next question, asked in faked absolute outrage, is ‘Yes’.
Which means the cost of meat is going up again. Because now instead of over the counter access, a vet prescription will be necessary.
The big outfits like Tyson’s will have a substandard vet that will do as he is told on staff, no problem for them.
The small producers, however, will see skyrocketing vet bills since they’ll have to call a vet every time a cow or ewe gets mastitis or a bummer calf or lamb gets pneumonia. Not to mention the lost time in arranging appointments instead of dropping by the co-op for the needed medicine.
effing Luddites claiming to be on the side of the little guy, but screwing us over at every turn, because they are STUPID TOOLS.
When you want sound science you turn to a statistician, hedge fund manager, and derivatives trader for the truth? Really?
When you have a scary looking and fast growing mole on your skin, do you go to your car mechanic for advice?
The stupid, it burns.
Seeds are mutating everyday in nature. That risk is unacceptable, we need to eliminate that risk.
Let's pave over the rain forest, to start, it's the only way to stay safe.
Genetic engineering refers to pasting genetic code into one species from another It does NOT refer to crossbreeding or any of the various breeding methods used by nature and man over the millennium The artilce is misleadig at best.
Genetic engineering refers to pasting genetic code into one species from another It does NOT refer to crossbreeding or any of the various breeding methods used by nature and man over the millennium The artilce is misleadig at best.
Genetic engineering refers to pasting genetic code into one species from another It does NOT refer to crossbreeding or any of the various breeding methods used by nature and man over the millennium The artilce is misleadig at best.
but at this point what does it matter?
I saw that...that’s great news, as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t believe the companies are doing it because of the FDA, I believe they are making the changes because of the old fashioned, “consumer demand”...it’s what customers are asking for! We don’t need any Federal Agency for that.
I’ve done some reading/research into how the huge “Factory Farms” operate......but I’m no expert, I’ve never actually seen one or known someone who has worked in one. Do you have any personal knowledge of them? I’d be extremely happy to hear from someone who has personal knowledge of them and tells me they are not really filthy at all......please tell me!
Nature does transfer genetic code between species, it’s called horizontal or lateral gene transfer. It is quite common in the viral and bacterial world.
Interspecies hybrids also occur in nature in both the plant and animal world.
I had what was once call a ‘factory farm’, raised 15,000 market hogs per year, birth to market. What would you like to know?
BTW one of the feed mixes contained Snickers Bars, others Gummy Worms and Bears.
Like zoonosis?
Uh, no. Zoonosis is the transfer of an animal disease to humans, like rabies, bubonic plague, Lyme’s disease, various parasitic worms, salmonella being some of the better known ones.
Has nothing to do with genetic transfer.
I know what zoonosis is, that is why I mentioned it. Various parasitic worms lets say from GMO to humans, pests like ticks becoming immune to glyphosate say, rabies and bubonic plaque passed to humans from rats that have eaten glyphosate crops say and then been exposed to glyphosate pesticide say..
Nah…nothing to do with genetic transfer…Nah
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