While we were distracted...

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Congress passed a bill that allows Monsanto to further penetrate our food supply with GMO's.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/congress-protects-monsant_b_2956642.html

RampageWake · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 6:48 am Post subject:

I quit reading at "My 9 year-old niece Evelyn in Maryland is already very politically-active." Rolling Eyes

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

if you weren't posting about guns and gays all the time, this never would have happened.

pet575 · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 7:11 am Post subject:

We should send the GMOs, guns, and gays to the 51st state-Gaylandia.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

RampageWake, the article was written a little weird, IMO, with quote a focus on the shooting and a little about the Monsanto issue.

jt09, maybe so. Mr. Green

pet575, I'm OK keeping the guns and gays...let's send the GMO's somewhere else.

Chad H · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 10:00 am Post subject:

Every food you've eaten is a GMO. It's called evolution. Oh wait... God doesn't let you believe that.

pet575 · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 11:22 am Post subject:

Okie Boarder, let's let only gays have guns!!! Laughing

jason_ssr · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 11:23 am Post subject:

IMO, the GMO isn't necessarily a health concern as much as it is a growth concern. Monsanto's genetic manipulation also purposefully keeps its crops from creating usable seed (it can pollinate, just not seed). This is spreading to farms that do not want this change as they gather their own seed for the next crop. Its spreading a rate that in a few decades, Monsanto will be the only source of usable seed there is, it will only be usable 1 time, and farms will have to buy seed again for next years crop. Its a product that destroys its own competition!

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

a few decades? farmers can't get non-ge seeds today.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Chad H, sure, everything evolves and changes and natural processes like that are pretty normal. The natural evolution that takes place in plants is not the issue here. The concern is what is happening with these man-made changes and the unknown of how they affect us, along with discoveries that are starting to point towards problems with the GMO's.

jason_ssr, there are growing health concerns, but yeah you are right that the bigger issue, currently, is that this could create one single company that is the supplier of all seed and eliminate the ability to cultivate seed for next year's crop at a commercial level and a personal level. It's a perfect business model and great way to eliminate competition, though.

pet575, Laughing

jason_ssr · Posted: Mar 28, 2013 2:51 pm Post subject:

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

http://intellihub.com/2013/03/28/surprised-monsanto-openly-wrote-own-monsanto-protection-act/