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Non-Tech : NIFTY NINE IN NINETY NINE PLUS ONE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (531)	7/2/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 613

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. ____________________________________________ 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;-)