04-27-2014, 09:36 AM
Plants and animals evolved naturally on this planet before mankind gained the cognizance to manipulate its environment. Hopefully we can all agree up to this point.
Next came agriculture which fostered community centers and permanent settlement.
Laws eventually developed to govern disputes.
New technologies arose and from those hybrid crops arose.
Eventually transgenics came about.
Farmers who practice time honored methods since quite literally the dawn of civilization (organic agriculture, just agriculture really - doesn't need a qualifier) are now required to submit to costly and time consuming methods to prove that these 'natural' means of production are mot contaminated ...by either transgenics, or pesticides used for so called 'conventional agriculture' (really post WWII chemical monocultures - actually deserves a qualifier - other than 'conventional' which is a misnomer.) while those using transgenic crops and pesticides are free to 'play in the sandbox' with their transgenic pollen and toxic pesticides blowing about in the wind with no care in the world. So farmers who have been farming with the time-proven techniques of their forefathers are now having their fields contaminated with cross pollinated transgenic crops and polluted with toxic pesticides.
Where should these people move to? A different planet? A bubble? All because somebody wanted to make an easy, cheap, quick buck? By spraying poison and planting mutated crops?
Next came agriculture which fostered community centers and permanent settlement.
Laws eventually developed to govern disputes.
New technologies arose and from those hybrid crops arose.
Eventually transgenics came about.
Farmers who practice time honored methods since quite literally the dawn of civilization (organic agriculture, just agriculture really - doesn't need a qualifier) are now required to submit to costly and time consuming methods to prove that these 'natural' means of production are mot contaminated ...by either transgenics, or pesticides used for so called 'conventional agriculture' (really post WWII chemical monocultures - actually deserves a qualifier - other than 'conventional' which is a misnomer.) while those using transgenic crops and pesticides are free to 'play in the sandbox' with their transgenic pollen and toxic pesticides blowing about in the wind with no care in the world. So farmers who have been farming with the time-proven techniques of their forefathers are now having their fields contaminated with cross pollinated transgenic crops and polluted with toxic pesticides.
Where should these people move to? A different planet? A bubble? All because somebody wanted to make an easy, cheap, quick buck? By spraying poison and planting mutated crops?