10-04-2012, 06:50 AM
PaulW, No one else is going to change your staunch mind. Start doing your own research instead of trying to get me and others to jump through hoops for your own education. If you come at this topic from a completely objective point of view, you stand to learn a lot. That's where I started, a bit skeptical but believing it important to learn about. I began reading, looking up and checking up facts about big claims, and I've reached my opinions through my own sweat and research. Trying to invalidate my stances by saying I'm part of the stereotype, or hysterical, or all the other backdoor ways you try to disempower a point of view, is not helping you or anyone else.
You are debating an opposing side to my statements by trying to ridicule and put down my statements, but you aren't bringing ANY of your own real arguments, research or facts to the table.
Re: Monsanto buying companies for nefarious means; You must not be looking very hard, or AT ALL for that matter. Which means you're just wasting people's time. Either that or you're limiting your search to only what Monsanto says. Let's just start by looking at the seed companies they have bought, companies who no longer sell heirloom seeds.
http://www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/u...to_eng.pdf
If you don't think the potato blight could happen again, I don't know how to help your understanding. The potato blight happened because Ireland forewent their previous biodiversity to all start growing the same kind of potatoes, hence MONOdiversity, so when the blight hit, it devastated the entire MONOCULTURE. Just because GMOs are touting that they are resistant against one thing, does not mean they are invincible, and the moment something comes along that a monocrop is defenseless against, we'll see devastation in that particular crop across America because most of the big, Monsanto backed farms are growing the same things, same varieties. Monsanto is systematically trying to stamp out other farms and seed distribution companies that aren't growing their products.
Isn't it ironic that the people who claim to be only for science and logic can't seem to use either efficiently in their arguments? Food security DOES NOT equal genetic engineering. Food security DOES NOT equal incorporating terminator genes in major food crops. Genetic modification IS NOT needed to feed this planet.
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
You are debating an opposing side to my statements by trying to ridicule and put down my statements, but you aren't bringing ANY of your own real arguments, research or facts to the table.
Re: Monsanto buying companies for nefarious means; You must not be looking very hard, or AT ALL for that matter. Which means you're just wasting people's time. Either that or you're limiting your search to only what Monsanto says. Let's just start by looking at the seed companies they have bought, companies who no longer sell heirloom seeds.
http://www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/u...to_eng.pdf
If you don't think the potato blight could happen again, I don't know how to help your understanding. The potato blight happened because Ireland forewent their previous biodiversity to all start growing the same kind of potatoes, hence MONOdiversity, so when the blight hit, it devastated the entire MONOCULTURE. Just because GMOs are touting that they are resistant against one thing, does not mean they are invincible, and the moment something comes along that a monocrop is defenseless against, we'll see devastation in that particular crop across America because most of the big, Monsanto backed farms are growing the same things, same varieties. Monsanto is systematically trying to stamp out other farms and seed distribution companies that aren't growing their products.
Isn't it ironic that the people who claim to be only for science and logic can't seem to use either efficiently in their arguments? Food security DOES NOT equal genetic engineering. Food security DOES NOT equal incorporating terminator genes in major food crops. Genetic modification IS NOT needed to feed this planet.
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
Melissa Fletcher
___________________________
"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973