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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
You are mostly just being simple-minded and are not seeing the bigger picture. Research does not happen in a vacuum...it is influenced by $ and prejudices.
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So a study on rats, GMOs and cancer risk undertaken by a known anti-GMO activist and homeopathic pharma shill who just happened to release his new book on GMOs at the same time did not have any ulterior motive attached to it, either, I suppose.
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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
You need to be asking this: WHY isn't independent longer-term research being REQUIRED and funded before GMOs.... for instance...are unleashed on the world??
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Tell me. Why do we assess cancer risks in humans in multi-year or decade-long studies instead of lifetime studies? When you do research over "long-term", "long-term" being defined as the expected lifespan of the research animal, the signal-to-noise ratio goes down. A lot.
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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
As far as Indian farmers...there is a woman in India that would have the hard info...she speaks perfect English....do the deep research.
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Why don't you? I live in a third-world country, attend various seminars on the plight of poor farmers and new approaches in agriculture and how to help them. I'm quite aware of the problems facing third-world farming in the absence of GMOs. And those problems don't go away WITH GMOs.
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The articles I post and link to are supposed to be a START...not the final analysis.
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So... what's wrong with analyzing, then?
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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
You do a good bit of damage with your simple denial of overall realities...my advice...DON'T FEED THE DUMMIES. Unless you are secretly working for Monsanto...et. al....then of course...it is AOK in a capitalistic system where the corps run the show.  |
Oh, dear me. I hope Monsato didn't forget my check in the mail. And my seed packets. Not a single GMO within thousands of miles of me. And I live in a town that used to be farmland as far as the eye can see. We've got to rectify that, soon.
I suppose I'm not a very good denier when I say:
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Again, I am perfectly willing to accept that Monsato is a vile, profiteering, dangerous agricultural monopolist that promotes bad practices and maybe sells dangerous products. And that excessive fertilizer and pesticide use is bad for the environment.
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As for crop patenting... cross-pollination makes such lawsuits problematic... and frivolous. You'd have to prove (as the corporation) that there is a systematic attempt to steal your property. Suing farmers for having fields with scattered samples of your seeds IS one of the unethical things Monsato et al are doing.
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Please overlook those statements when writing my check, please.
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On a completely different tack. That last link was thought-provoking. Looks like a good book.