Anyone hear or know anything about the "Monsanto Protection Act?" Anyone been reading bad things about GMO crops like Round Up ready corn?
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trevorgreycattleco said:I may be wrong but unread a article stating Canada and the USA were the only countries that allow it anymore. Studies in Europe on GMO corn showed massive tumors and growths on rats. Another study suggested GMO crops are responsible for the severe kill off in honey bees. I'll try and find that article again for the link.
nkotb said:If the US and Canada are the only ones allowing it now are a large part of our production shipped overseas? South America also grows a large amount of GMO crops for not "allowing it." Europe has not outlawed GMO crops, much of their livestock is fed GMO grain, they have made the paperwork so cumbersome to include GMO grain in food that most producers aren't including it. I would t expect most of you to know this, it has not been circulated on Facebook. It's a little disappointing that agriculture can't stand together with a united front instead of believing everything posted on Facebook and listening to the extremist.
I discovered that one by one my cherished beliefs about GM turned out to be little more than green urban myths. I’d assumed that it would increase the use of chemicals. It turned out that pest-resistant cotton and maize needed less insecticide. I’d assumed that GM benefited only the big companies. It turned out that billions of dollars of benefits were accruing to farmers needing fewer inputs…. I’d assumed that no one wanted GM. Actually what happened was that Bt cotton was pirated into India and roundup ready soya into Brazil because farmers were so eager to use them. I’d assumed that GM was dangerous. It turned out that it was safer and more precise than conventional breeding using mutagenesis for example; GM just moves a couple of genes, whereas conventional breeding mucks about with the entire genome in a trial and error way. But what about mixing genes between unrelated species? The fish and the tomato? Turns out viruses do that all the time, as do plants and insects and even us—it’s called gene flow.”
"One of the case studies that really changed my mind about this was the saga of golden rice, which was developed to be vitamin A-enhanced, because something like a quarter million children per year die from a vitamin A deficiencies in developing countries, particularly in South Asia ... Greenpeace has been waging a campaign to stop this rice from ever being developed ... You can make a pretty strong case that tens of thousands of children have died because they were denied access to this purely because it's GM, and there is a ideological bias against that."
knabe said:if you want to see the effect of car exhaust on plant growth, drive along side the highway and then look just beyond about 20 feet or so. in california, rye grass grows very well next to the highway, so much so that biologists are concerned it interferes with butterfly migration as the butterflies don't do well when they hit different heights grass, not to mention cars.