Monsanto

[hemet dennis]

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No it doesn't, since it couldn't be grown and sold in the first place unless it had ALREADY been approved.

All this does is allow farmers to harvest and sell their previously approved crops until any court cases are FINALLY settled, rather than forcing them to lose everything based on a lower courts decisions, or the mere filing of a lawsuit.

It has NOTHING to do with the "safety" of the crops, since if it were PROVEN beyond doubt to be "unsafe", the Govt could still halt the sales.

Don't buy into the anti Monsanto hype.
Read the actual laws first

 

[KristyHall]

Monsanto is also the company that made and fought to keep using DDT and Agent Orange. The crops are being genetically modified by a company to be sold to farmers to be used with chemicals the same company made, who also has a history of making deadly chemicals and lieing about the affects.

Color me yellow, but that doesn't put them high on my trust list.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense

 

[bayoudragon]

Monsanto is also the company that made and fought to keep using DDT and Agent Orange. The crops are being genetically modified by a company to be sold to farmers to be used with chemicals the same company made, who also has a history of making deadly chemicals and lieing about the affects.

Color me yellow, but that doesn't put them high on my trust list.

Nor mine! I didn't believe the anti-hype either. I graduated in agriculture. Why were people against Monsanto? So the more I researched, the more sickened I became. The documentary below shows Monsanto's effects around the world. It's almost 2 hours long, a bit slow, but it is definitely worth a watch. This is the best video that pulls into one spot a variety of issues - environmental issues, data manipulation, revolving doors, government corruption, etc.

NOT a Monsanto fan. Sorry, just the stance I take.

 

[cupman]

I can't wait for the day I bite into an apple and it screams.

 

[KristyHall]

DDT is still used in most of the world, and has saved far more lives than it's taken

Agent Orange was only used by the Govt, and Monsanto wasn't the only manufacturer.
It was a mixture of two herbicides, one of which still in use in the US today

It is debatable whether it has saved more lives than DDT has taken, since it's affects have not only lead to health issues in people, but have caused the collapse of entire ecosystems by taking out important key species such as certain birds, which led to an over abundance of pest animals that have wiped out entire crops and lead to famines.

Also, just because monsanto was not the only producer of Agent orange, and that its chemicals are still in use, does not mean that monsanto is any less responsible for its part, nor does it mean the chemicals are any less dangerous. And so what if the government used it? We are paying millions in tax payer dollars caring for the veterans and the East asian people who are dieing horrible deaths from agent orange's affects. I am watching my step father suffer form his exposure to agent orange.

Monsanto had a hand in trying to deny the dangers of these chemicals. So once again, their track record does not instill any trust in me. Same goes for the government, but that's another issue all together.

 

[KristyHall]

I read your post right after I saw this picture on a humor photo contest and had to post this!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

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They told the Dept of Defense there was contamination in the product.
It was NOT the product itself that was so "dangerous"

 

[nan4848]

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BearFootFarm:They told the Dept of Defense there was contamination in the product.
It was NOT the product itself that was so "dangerous"

Got a link for that statement?

 

[oldrooster]

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BearFootFarm:They told the Dept of Defense there was contamination in the product.
It was NOT the product itself that was so "dangerous"

Got a link for that statement?


someone told me about 20 years ago that the government used it at higher than recomended concentrations. and because of that it gave the people exposed cancer, and that it was non-cancerious or at least the risk of cancer was much lower than at the levels they used it at. I have no idea if that is true though. but I can see either contamination or higher than recomended concentration POSSIBLY being true.