Don't Let Monsanto's GMOs Contaminate Organics!

Posted by gonzo309 11 years, 1 month ago to Legislation
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No matter what Monsanto and the USDA say, GMOs contaminate organic crops - Now they want organic farmers to pay to protect themselves!


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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You extrapolate way too much. Merely looking to put the overall population of the world in context. There is plenty of land to house and feed everyone, if used efficiently.

    The most efficient use of land will occur with a free-market system. All else will be sub-optimal.

    The rest of your screed is just a waste of time.
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  • Posted by RobertFl 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You're talking personal space. But, I'll play.
    What do you do with their waste? where do park their car? Where do you plant their food? You need 700 sq.ft./person to grow food. That assumes you got good yield. That also didn't include the sq.ft. needed to grow meat - got to deal with animal waste as well.
    Where do you put those factories to make their goods, like clothes? You didn't add in the road ways to get people around, without grid lock.
    What is the real sq.ft. cost for a human.
    Physical space is one thing. Not every location is habitable. Nor is everyplace capable of growing food. Potable water IS the absolute limiting factor. Get the highest potential yield you want/acre. It doesn't mean jack if you can't water it.
    You may have a right to life, but you do not have a right to bring a life into the world you can not provide for.
    I ask again, is that not the very statement the Gulch is about??
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Just to be accurate here - you could provide 7 billion people 1000 square feet of space and house them all in the land area of Texas. So please don't go on about how there are too many people.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    When have I mentioned anything about law?

    When have I said that I wanted to prevent evolution?

    The only thing that I have advocated is that private property rights need to be observed. There is a real concern that genetically modification may be harmful (it also may not be, I tend to come down on this side but respect the right of others to come to other conclusions, I'm not competent in the genetics to be able to render a viable conclusion).

    As for the speakers - I do have a right to demand that shared resources be used in a manner that recognizes the rights of all. If you are infringing on my rights, then we have a conflict that needs adjudication.

    As for facts, that's all that I have been dealing with - that and rational thinking processes. Why the hostility?
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  • Posted by monalisaturberville1957 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Feed the Children" Do you not realize that by reaching out as they did was nothing more than a plot to in fact feed GMO food in order to test what the long term affects would be. They were not being humane. They made test subjects out of millions in order to test what the side effects would be from the use of the chemical surplus left over from warfare. Please. Before the development of chemical warfare we depended upon crop rotation and compost. Suddenly within a few short years we had fertilizer's that would boost harvest. The end result of that is now our soil is deficient in nutrients necessary for the healthy development of human life. So they sell us a vitamin and call it a day. "FEED THE CHILDREN" okay.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    1) Do companies have the right to associate freely?
    2) Does a company have the right to purchase other assets so long as that is done legally?
    3) Does a legal entity have the right to trade?
    4) If you have evidence that congressmen have been paid off or otherwise illegally influenced, it is your responsibility as a citizen to present such evidence to a federal attorney so that that illegal activity can be properly adjudicated.
    5) If you believe that the law(s) are illegal, then you have the right (and I would say responsibility) to challenge that law in federal court.

    Since I doubt that you can refute the first 3, nor are willing to ante up to the 2nd 2, you have little to add to the discussion as far as I can tell. If you do, I'd appreciate hearing it.
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  • Posted by monalisaturberville1957 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Governmental system's that sought the development of the GMO! Now you have it. It has never been about ones human desire to gain. A human desire to gain is and has always been of a benefit not harm. If one bought out all competition that would have only been allowed if the other party was willing to sell. That is not what this is about. If you control the world food supply, you can control the entire world. Not one nation, can stand against the one whom controls the very ability to feed the people. The arrogance of this that those very seed will in fact eventually totally fail. Or do they magically have an abundance of seed.
    The harsh reality is that the wind is carrying the pollen from the GMO's which is affecting natural seeds. All will eventually fail.
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  • Posted by $ WillH 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You sure can. You can oppose them if they are harmful or even if they are not. That's totally up to you. You can complain and complain and complain all you want. I am not saying you are required to provide me anything. I was hoping you had a constructive idea behind your complaints that did not require human deaths. That’s all.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    All right, so maybe we're getting somewhere. You do realize that Moses is famous as a lawgiver. So tell me: what is wrong with a Mosaic system of property law?
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  • Posted by dbhalling 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Again I repeat primitive - perhaps your ideas are in line with legal thinking at the time of Moses or earlier.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    No you want to stop your seed from evolving. You want a law against reality. If you want your seeds to stay "pure", which is impossible, then it is your job not Monsanto's.

    Your are confusing reality. I control my speakers. However, this does not mean that you have a right to complain about any noise I make. Cross pollination happens, if you plant anything you are going to be contaminating by your definition your neighbors plants. This is legal and moral nonsense. What is your harm? Cite facts not propaganda
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    My concept is probably as old as civilization itself: if it drifts into my part of the sky, I have jurisdiction over it, especially if it lands. Nobody's talking about filing phony deeds to anything, so right away your analogy fails. Kindly repair your argument.

    This issue is critical. You do realize, I trust, that we are rehearsing a jury deliberation.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Stick to the topic: its Monsanto's Roundup GMOs, not all GMOs. Already gave you the realistic answer. Life isn't fair and there aren't always easy answers. But you know this. Why do you think I am required or even inclined to provide you an answer? I can oppose Monsanto's GMOs if they are harmful even if there is no replacement for them at present.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll tell you why; because the situation is a real life example of the premises in Atlas Shrugged. If Monsanto is framed as the epitome of a looter, changing laws to only benefit them at the expense of everyone else, you understand Mauch and his lowlife cronies need to be put on a short leash. We've gone off into the science, which is educational and informative on a potentially dangerous threat to all, but the fact remains that the situation in the book or movie applies today in reality and that allowing it to continue is criminal. I would say the post is more than appropriate. It might even get some folks off their butts and do the right thing. Let's face it, their health is being affected too.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    "Greed" is an often used word to admonish people for their natural behavior. I agree with you that it is not necessarily connected to money; it is a desire (natural, I would say) to acquire more of something. The problem becomes when that "something" is more than someone else thinks you (or I) should have. So it's called "greed."
    Monsanto is protecting its investment by making a seed that cannot reproduce (after one time). Farmers that buy it know that. What is wrong with that approach? Now, I am aware of the strong-arm tactics that Monsanto uses and the lobbying efforts that are immoral and illegal, but the problem is in the fact that we have a government system that enables this to happen, not in the natural desire of any human to gain an advantage.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You concept of property rights is primitive. If I file a deed for your house or title to your car or transfer bits from your bank account to mine, have a stolen it?
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  • Posted by dbhalling 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Then you are confusing two issues and neither your nor the people who read what you are writing will be able to tell what you are talking about.
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  • Posted by $ WillH 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Ok then, let us change it and say Monsanto is covering up past mistakes, the government is participating for some unknown reason, and the medical professionals are ignoring it. It’s still too long a bridge to cross when the medical people are added in.

    It is true that most doctors are busy with Obamacare, but Obamacare is not old enough to explain them having “missed this” totally over the last 20 years. Obamacare has also not stopped medical research or the writings of publications of medical journals.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Not at all. The question is how the evolution occurs. I believe that those who do not want "engineered" plants to contaminate their "natural" plants, they should have that right.

    While I don't give much credence to those that fear GMO's, I respect the right of those who do to be able to observe their beliefs - so long as it does not harm me. The converse should be true. They should not be harmed (their plants contaminated with unnaturally created DNA) either. So far, the law has seen fit to protect the engineered product, not the natural product.

    Take your reasoning and apply it to noise. You have a neighbor who chooses to blast their 1000 watt speakers 24 hours a day. Would you say that it is your responsibility to spend your money to sound proof your house? Why should you be required to expend resources because of someone else's actions?
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't see how you can read my comments and conclude that I think "killing everyone" was Monsanto's original intent. I do think Monsanto has shown they can be unethical and I think it possible that they are trying to cover up serious unexpected negative effects of their GMO seeds and Roundup.
    Doctors are too busy with patients and Obamacare to have time to investigate the side effects of long term exposure to fluoride.
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