05-26-2014, 05:25 AM
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Originally posted by Mendo
Leilanidude asks "Is it not only possible, but probable that there are people growing with GMO seeds that do not use any pesticides?" It's a valid question, but the answer is 'No, there is no GMO food production, now or ever to date, w/o massive pesticide use.' It is not a coincidence that GMOs are made and marketed by chemical companies. GMOs in their current form are, in reality, a delivery system for patented poisonous chemicals, and little else.
Pahoated blames the problem on "continuing effort of mainland haole," displaying his own racism while adding only distractions and nothing of substance.
You completely made up that "fact". There is absolutely zero basis for your comment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sunday...d=all&_r=0
OpenD mentioned Golden Rice - the above article (well written) has some very good information that is well worth the read.
I like this quote:
“It is long past time for scientists to stand up and shout, ‘No more lies — no more fear-mongering,’ ” said Nina V. Fedoroff, a professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and a former science adviser to the American secretary of state, who helped spearhead the petition. “We’re talking about saving millions of lives here.”
And:
"Not owned by any company, Golden Rice is being developed by a nonprofit group called the International Rice Research Institute with the aim of providing a new source of vitamin A to people both in the Philippines, where most households get most of their calories from rice, and eventually in many other places in a world where rice is eaten every day by half the population. Lack of the vital nutrient causes blindness in a quarter-million to a half-million children each year. It affects millions of people in Asia and Africa and so weakens the immune system that some two million die each year of diseases they would otherwise survive."