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To: Pining_4_TX

There are other concerns regarding Monsanto, its products and its practices, than specifically the subject of cancer.

1) Enormously increasing the exposure of persons to lectins, through patented seeds and insecticides, which may have a destructive effect on the intestinal lining, leading to what is now called Leaky Gut Syndrome, and is related to numerous Auto-Immune conditions.

2) Advocating and lobbying for punitive legislation against private persons owning and sowing heirloom seeds on their own property, and using punitive actions against private farmers who unwillingly have their crops corrupted by patented Monsanto GMO seeds from open-bed trucks that pass by their fields on public roads.

3) Buying and then burying the research by Beealogics (c. 2012), which had been studying (Beehive) Colony Collapse Disorder. There is evidence that the dramatic increase in lectins caused by Monsanto products literally drives the Hymenopteran nervous systems haywire (as caffeine, a plant defense mechanism, can do).

As someone with a background in the physical sciences, including physics, chemistry and genetics, as well as in mathematics - and who was scored in the top 1%ile in such aptitudes - and as one who has studied logic, I pay plenty of attention to both reason and science. Your assumption that no one who in any way opposes Monsanto’s policies and products does not pay heed to either is both arrogant and ignorant.

Since you are so preemptively insulting, I will respond in kind:

You are what I call a 3C: a Cookie-Cutter Conservative - one who lives by the simple-minded, knee-jerk axiom: Big Government Bad, Big Business Good.

Regardless, this is a Freedom issue. I prefer God’s design over Man’s. If you do not like that, that is your hang-up, not mine. I want the freedom to be informed about food products on the market, and the freedom to choose what to put in my body.

I do not want any corporation to be able to use its money to bribe legislators into giving them carte blanche on research, information, and/or production.


23 posted on 10/21/2018 8:42:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy
Enormously increasing the exposure of persons to lectins, through patented seeds and insecticides, which may have a destructive effect on the intestinal lining...

Here's a paper showing a particular benefit of lectins: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cf3d/b151d1c5829a9597f44d7385f7549e7dca7d.pdf Basically the opposite of what you stated. Also please provide a scientific reference on those "patented seeds" and their relation to lectins. There is a relationship with insecticides as explained in the paper. But not to any patented seeds. There are lectins occurring naturally in some beans that may make it difficult to absorb nutrients in our gut.

69 posted on 10/22/2018 9:09:40 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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