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gypsy69
This is the only true statement you posted" I am one of those totally wrong anti- GMO people that must be hysterically hallucinating ", the rest is nonsense.
Gmo and non gmo papaya is grown exactly the same.Papaya is modified to combat ring spot virus.Nothing more.It's not resistant to roundup.
Delta9r
"Then there's the "poison" thing... Are we supposed to believe that "RoundUp Ready" crops will not have poisons applied multiple times during a growing season?"
This is nonsense.Farmers are not going to grow a gmo crop that is going to cost them more money to grow.
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Gmo and non gmo papaya is grown exactly the same.Papaya is modified to combat ring spot virus.Nothing more.It's not resistant to roundup.
Yeah but it's being grown by Filipinos who don't speak English.
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@gypsy69 - you are malihini and picked the wrong crop as an example with rainbow papaya. Even the county ban allows GMO rainbow papaya. Do you even have the slightest clue what the exact modification is? It is only a modification to the skin, not the fruit.
What insults me with the anti-GMO fad frenzy is the supreme ignorance displayed by such large groups regarding biotech today. It is viewed and treated, in the United States, like a witch hunt with social media driven mob rule vendetta mentality. To run with this devolutionary mob is to deny the intricate complexities being discovered and changed under almost lego-like control. Yes, the implications are staggering, and frightening to a large segment of the population. Somebody said something along the lines of "they only fear what they don't understand". Nothing is going to change until this current social-media driven fad fades out.
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Penn biologists find on-off switch for flower formation
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Originally posted by Obie
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This is nonsense.Farmers are not going to grow a gmo crop that is going to cost them more money to grow.
This conveniently ignores the fact that many GMO crops grown here are being raised by big agribusiness and not local farmers.
Nice try with yet another straw man argument.
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Delta9r, Can you name them?
Assume the best and ask questions.
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While not RR (RoundUp Ready) via a tranagene, RoundUp or its active ingredient Glyphosphate is used for transgenic papaya growth. It is not sprayed directly on the fruit or foilage - these are to be avoided - rather it is targeted on the weeds beneath the papaya canopy. This is generally done twice per growing season or harvest period. There are exceptions i'm sure like anything in life but that is the standard usage.
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Well, since RoundUp and other herbicides are used in fields of non-GMO papayas too, what is your point?
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Originally posted by dude: Well, since RoundUp and other herbicides are used in fields of non-GMO papayas too, what is your point?
Exactly what I was thinking. I afraid you're wasting your time using logic. You need purely emotional arguments.
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GMO papaya requires 5 times the fungicide of previous papaya crops, as it is very susceptible to fungus. "Golden rice" is so often offered as the shining example of GMO's doing some good. Trouble is, it's still fictional. Never been approved, tho it's been heralded as GMO PR for over a decade.
Several commenters like to use the word "science" as if they own it, when they refer to corporate technology. Science seeks to learn the truth thru clear-eyed impartial experiments, and uses the precautionary principle to protect life even during experiments. Corporate technology, such as GMOs, can be reckless and use company-sponsored psuedo-science to justify profits above safety. Need examples? See tobacco, pharmeceuticals, or Monsanto's considerable contributions to the list: DDT, rBGH, PCBs, Agent Orange, glyphosate ( Roundup) and now GMOs. All used corporate PR to hide the cancer causing nature of the highly profitable products, hide the science as long as possible, then moved on to the next poisonous profit maker.
And you chemical company apologists trust these guys and call them 'science?'
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The financial motive behind the anti-GMO quasireligious movement is the organic food industry.
Organic food, for all the claims of the anti-GMO people, is actually declining as it becomes more available, primarily due to the 20% to 30% mark up.
It appears this anti-GMO movement is backed by a sputtering mainland organic food consortium, needing something to boost sales. Here are charts showing the sinking shares of organic food marketing, with several charts showing the decline overall, not just Whole Foods:
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http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2014/05/27/who.../?iid=Lead
Whole Foods stock is rotting away
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