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Genetically Modified Corn – Safe or Toxic?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Genetically-Modified-Corn-Safe-Or-Toxic.aspx ^ | Amanda Kimble-Evans

Posted on 03/29/2010 5:32:00 AM PDT by truthfinder9

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To: Mr. Lucky
you have pretty well conceded the field

What's to concede? Either the water is polluted or it isn't. (It is.) Either the food is tampered with or it isn't. (It is.) Either the food has pesticides on it or it doesn't. (It does.)

61 posted on 03/29/2010 1:04:33 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Message to the Feds: Get your stinkin' mitts off my vitamins!!!)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
The intensive tillage practices required to control weeds before the advent of the Round-Up tolerant trait was the single largest contributor to stream pollution in the rural midwest. Whether you know, understand, or like that fact doesn't change it.

Similarly, this study (which was funded by Greenpeace, by the way) was not based upon any sort of falsifiable, impartial clinical analysis. Instead, the self proclaimed French corn experts merely claimed that glyphosate was found in some rats. How the glyphosate got in the rats (and why a rat's diet is thought to be comparable to a human's in any event) is left to the imagination. But, you've got a fanciful imagination.

62 posted on 03/29/2010 1:37:34 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

You know, I wasn’t even taking your comments into consideration when I responded to Irisshlass. You took it into your head that I was referring to YOU as a dumbass. At the time, I wasn’t.


63 posted on 03/29/2010 3:31:16 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Running as fast as we can, back to the Dark Ages!)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Um, well, err, I mean that just naturally I assumed you meant me.


64 posted on 03/29/2010 3:32:26 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
The Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization that seeks sustainable alternatives to harmful methods of food production technologies, estimates that more than 70 percent of the processed foods in U.S. grocery stores contain some genetically modified ingredients -- mostly corn or soy.

65 posted on 03/29/2010 5:16:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: IYAS9YAS
MSG is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Basically, it's glutamic acid with sodium attached. The important thing to understand in all of this is that glutamic acid is the same whether you get it from some guy throwing it in a wok in a Chinese restaurant or from eating a tomato. People who claim they react to MSG from added sources should also react to it from natural sources. The average American gets about ten times more glutamate from natural sources than they do from added sources so the whole idea of removing MSG from your diet, or claiming you react to it from added sources (but not from natural sources), is silly.
66 posted on 03/30/2010 7:35:58 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
The average American gets about ten times more glutamate from natural sources than they do from added sources so the whole idea of removing MSG from your diet, or claiming you react to it from added sources (but not from natural sources), is silly.

I know folks who claim the MSG gives them headaches and other issues. Could it be the combination of the sodium and the glutamate together in that compound and how the body breaks down that particular compound as opposed to simply consuming sodium and glutamates at the same time?

It's been a long time since I took chemistry and biology classes.

67 posted on 03/30/2010 9:56:56 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
I know folks who claim the MSG gives them headaches and other issues.

Yeah, me too. That's why I always ask about whether or not the same effect happens when they eat a tomato, or chicken, or shrimp and so on. That's usually where the conversation ends.

Could it be the combination of the sodium and the glutamate together in that compound and how the body breaks down that particular compound as opposed to simply consuming sodium and glutamates at the same time?

MSG, and the so-called Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, has been studied to death. There is no evidence that what you suggest exists. That won't stop the chemicalphobes from claiming otherwise though. Maybe they're reacting to the sodium. I can't imagine it but who knows. Just think how difficult a sensitivity to sodium is going to make their lives. Without glutamate, you can't live. The average human has several pounds of it in their body at any given time. People who have issues with that are interesting to say the least.

68 posted on 03/30/2010 10:57:55 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: truthfinder9

ALL corn we eat is “genetically modified” and has to be. I’m not very fond of that pretty “Indian corn” put on doors at Thanksgiving time. For centuries it was modified by plain hybridization...and now for decades by more precise methods.

So what? It goes into our stomachs and is dissolved, digested or crapped out.... NO IT WON’T HURT YOU!


69 posted on 03/30/2010 8:26:30 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: truthfinder9; goodwithagun; Quix; M. Espinola; Kackikat; stephenjohnbanker; DrewsMum; saganite; ...
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

Excerpt:

Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. * * *
Just what we need: Artificial growth hormone (rBGH) in all our milk products and all our beef and chicken and turkey or whatever . . .

For More Critical Information on Monsanto Click Here

70 posted on 12/26/2010 2:50:11 PM PST by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: ex-Texan

The next step is to clone the whole lot of us.


71 posted on 12/26/2010 10:08:56 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never "free")
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To: goodwithagun

I just heard the French doctor on the radio and instantly put his book on my Amazon list.

Don’t miss Suzanne Somers’s book on cancer too — it’s not about HER; each chapter is written with interviews of other great doctors curing cancer the healthy way. It’s a must-own.


72 posted on 12/26/2010 10:16:04 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: M. Espinola
Take a peek here and ask your self is it real or just comedy . . . LOL !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-SSlzOo00&feature=related

73 posted on 12/26/2010 10:59:07 PM PST by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: ex-Texan

Frigging lizard swines!

74 posted on 12/27/2010 12:26:05 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never "free")
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To: M. Espinola; ex-Texan

I still don’t know what to think of all that.

Particularly in the era of Photoshop.

Certainly plenty of the globalist traitors ACT AND SOUND LIKE

they are from satanic forces beyond earth’s surface.

And, some of those videos are . . . at least a bit . . . disconcerting.

Where the truth lies is a whole ‘nother issue.


75 posted on 12/27/2010 11:10:30 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: truthfinder9

Corn is now it’s own pesticide, bugs eat it, they die. The gene’s have been manipulated such that it is Monsanto Round-Up Ready, they spray the entire field with Round-up, everything dies but the corn. GMO corn is made in a way that no two batches are ever the same. Also, despite what is claimed no testing is really undertaking. Finally, they are using things such as agrobacterium, putida, and other interesting soil bacterium which can infect humans, and AgroBacterium is one of the few things on earth that can make the Cross - Kingdom jump.

GMO Corn is not good.


76 posted on 12/27/2010 11:18:38 AM PST by Scythian
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To: Hacklehead

You have no idea what you are talking about.


77 posted on 12/27/2010 11:20:30 AM PST by Scythian
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Agreed, and there are many Monsanto Trolls on here trying to convince everyone, ignore them, they’re fools, and they arguments for GMO being the same as old cross breeding is hysterically ignorant (and been proven so).


78 posted on 12/27/2010 11:24:40 AM PST by Scythian
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To: Scythian; Hacklehead

He knows exactly what he’s talking about. All corn is genetically modified from an ancient grass, called teosinte, and all corn is tolerant of types of herbicides (just as is the grass in your front yard).


79 posted on 12/27/2010 11:29:20 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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