First of all, don't take this as an attack
on you personally Dude, you may very well
have found an excellent pick--I just have
a rant about the anti-GMO trend, which follows
this first paragraph. Second thing to mention
is that I'm heading in the second half of the
year with essentially the same picks, aria, ctii,
cnsi, ntii, sibi vlts. To these are added fsagx,
a gold fund--any generic gold stock fund will do,
but I happen to have money with Fidelity...
and finally, magn, in which my gain is already more
than a 100%, I've locked in sufficient gains with
that one to allow remaining shares to coast
unmolested for a few years. Whatever my original
choices are, those can continue for the second
half of the year contest, but I did want to
point out what I own for real.
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re SDIX--the Europeans are heading back to the
dark ages, this whole trend seems absurd to me.
You may have found a good stock Dude...but I still
want to comment on this very dangerous trend...
There is no more risk in genetically modified
foods than there is in unmodified food, less
in some cases where the use of pesticides is less.
Man has changed the course of the natural enviornment
to suit his needs...there is nothing natural right
now about filling entire counties with a single
crop--filling whole counties with an engineered
crop is nothing dramatic. Engineering crops for better
characterisitcs has been going on for thousands of
years...GM is just stepping things up a notch.
The real threat is agriculture on such a large
scale, not GM. But the world has to be fed, what
is a better solution. Feed Europe with expensive
crops, and have Africa, Pakistan, China and India
starve?
Some Monarch larvae suffered, but surely they
will suffer much more if pesticides are used?
Transgenic corn engineered to carry genetic material
from Bacillus thuringiensis is an effective much
more natural way than dealing with pesticides--BT
is so much less toxic than any other pesticide solution
you would not beleive it (it is non-toxic for humans,
and I am pretty sure only grubs, borers, caterpillars
etc are effected. These radical Europeans probably
do not understand the issue at all--madness of crowds
etc.
I am sure that I am right on this, but I'll keep
my eyes turned to the issue, I've not yet seen
credible scientists speaking out against BT, but
it may have occurred and I did not see it.
Surely there are a few organic gardners out there who
have dusted their veggies with bt dust...bacteria.
Or shall we go back to poisoning our pea patches
with diaznon again? These uninformed radicals (who
apparently have made law over there in Europe now)
should take a basket of fresh summer peaches to the
lab for analysis...they will find horrifying levels
of pesticides, levels which are probably dangerous
to some degree in infants. And yet they would reject
a genetically modified peach which could better
withstand insect attack, and that could be organically
grown because of it's engineering (I don't know for
sure if there are GM peaches, but I do know that
regular peaches carry the highest levels of pesticides
of all the fruit--except for maybe some Chilean grapes...)
This whole business about protecting the environment
is yet another scam, launched by environmental big
business. You probably have a great stock there Dude,
but I do not like where this is going...
People need to better understand what the real threats
to the environment are. The burden a human population
of ~6B puts on this planet is probably one that I can
think of right off the top of my head. Non native 'weed'
species--whether they be plant or animal. Hysterical
Europeans is another threat;-) |
