GMO discussion with teacher

[HollyBird24]

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I will take the word of the respected farmers an seed people over a company with a reputation an a legacy that Monsanto has. I'm sure the people of Anniston, Alabama would to. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto's_Global_Pollution_Legacy

Not all those farmers are as honest as you think they are, one example is of a farmer in Saskatewan, Canada. Percy Schmieser reported that the GMO canola had blown into his field from a passing truck, yet traces of the canola were found in the middle of his field. Yes, canola is light and blows easily, but not that far!

 

[Royd]

I really miss the good old days, when, as a kid, you got to watch the the old biplane crop duster swoop over the powerlines, drop down and leave that beautiful misty trail of DDT. Life was simple, back then.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/genetics_modification/percyschmeiser.html
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/RRCanola%20Returns.htm
http://www.care2.com/causes/genetically-engineered-canola-goes-wild-across-north-dakota.html (wild growing GMO)

I'm still looking, but I haven't found any evidence to prove, or even indicate, that the seeds were purposefully put in his field by said farmer. Looks like surrounding fields also had the GMO crops. Corporations with good ammounts of money tend to...use that money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(film)

 

[KenK]

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Do you think Monsanto's account is a fabrication?

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/percy-schmeiser.aspx

 

[trailchick]

Oh, Royd, don't you remember when we would follow the mosquito foggin truck as it went down the street every night in the summertime. Now they tell you to go inside when you see it coming. Maybe you lived where they didnt do that.

Had a small tub of guppies a few years ago in the backyard - small town - had no idea they would send that truck down the ally..... short story - no more guppies in my tub.

I was surprised to see it is still done....

Back to GMO's: I thank the OP for this thread, maybe some are informed and will be alert. Doubt tho, anything can be done, regarding them. A great idea, is still to require labeling, because we dont know what we are ingesting, unless we grow it.

 

[Royd]

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You do know that Malaria was nearly eliminated in Africa, until the greenies got all concerned about thin shelled raptor eggs, and banned DDT?

 

[HollyBird24]

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Do you think Monsanto's account is a fabrication?

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/percy-schmeiser.aspx

Thank you for bringing this up KenK, for all of you who think Percy Schmieser is a hero, please read this article for the truth.

 

[HollyBird24]

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We still have crop dusters fly around, only they don't spray DDT

 

[hemet dennis]

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Do you think it was ever a good ideal to follow the truck, and would you let your kids do it ?

 

[trailchick]

hey, hemet, we were very young, & our parents never told us not too.
Didnt even knwo what it was for -


As far as crop dusters go, they are killing my bees, neighboring farmers dont let neighbors know when they are going to spray.....

and hemet as far as source watch goes, I am a treehugger, I read treehugger.com. huffingtonpost.com, I watch msnbc, and I watch fox news. I get very mad watching fox news but I do watch, because one needs to know what the other side is saying!!!! Yeah, call me a lefty, I am left handed, and you can call me a liberal.



Liberal, and proud of it!!!!!