Hi Carl,
Asked and answered.
Message 28390643
But I will add to that answer, below.
First, ad hominem logical fallacy and projection (I'm not doing what you are doing!) are usually is used to cover and to avoid arguing actual issues. Is that why you use them or has your conditioning blinded you to your extremely poor argument technique? Which is stating it nicely because it isn't even argument to claim something and then do absolutely nothing to support it.
You haven't shown on iota of evidence that GMO crop yields are better, but you have worked very hard to avoid the large study that showed GMO crop yields weren't sufficiently greater than non GMO crops.
Like the plague.
Cover your eyes, click your heels and it all goes away, right Carl?
From my previous link above.
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From the Summary Issue Briefing...
For the answer, the Union of Concerned Scientists carefully examined the industry’s record in the United States, where GE crops have been commercially grown since the mid-1990s and where the best and most extensive data are available.
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As described in our report, Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops, we found that since the commercial introduction of GE food crops in the United States:
• Herbicide-tolerant (HT) GE soybeans and corn have not increased yields any more than conventional methods that rely on commonly available herbicides.
• Insect-resistant Bt corn varieties have provided an average yield advantage of just 3–4 percent compared to typical conventional practices, including syn-thetic insecticide use.
• Meanwhile, non-GE plant breeding and farming methods have increased yields of major grain crops by values ranging from 13–25 percent.
ucsusa.org
The Union of Concerned Scientists' complete Failure to Yield report can be found here...
ucsusa.org
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Seriously, Carl, the food supply and the disruption of the planet's genetic codes are far to important to not do the research required in order to have an informed opinion to share with others when discussing such an important issue.
Farmer "Jones" in a variety of countries doesn't plant GMO at all - it is illegal.
What countries have banned GMO crops?
examiner.com
Why is GMO illegal in a number of countries, Carl? For the readers of this post - don't expect Carl to answer.
Cover eyes, click heels and pretend? Really, Carl? Really?
Allergies skyrocketing (foreign proteins triggering the immune system, more in some than others), chronic disease rates escalating, breast cancer rates up 200% in 30 years, ADHD epidemics, autism goes from 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 58... some due to definition, but nearly all of it.
Really?
No long term human health studies?
$50 million to HIDE their product?
"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994
Carl, this wouldn't be the case if they did the health research and all was fine. But they have so little respect for the sheeple who naively think these Agent Orange liars won't lie to them that they openly refuse to do safety studies. Scratch that - utter contempt. Their view is that if you aren't smart enough to figure out their scams (finance, "food," "government," "education," "news," sick care, etc... then you deserve what you get.
Norman might have let the truth slip out and that's why they refuse human health studies against the recommendation of the FDA scientists.
If that weren't bad enough...
"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." -- Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998
So who does the Monsanto funded president put in control of the FDA? Michael Taylor, former attorney for Monsanto and future vice-president. He serves the fascists so well, he's now Obama's Food Czar.'
Fascist bipartisanship.
You can connect dots, no? Or did you even do the research before spouting off as a know it all?
From the article we see how Big Finance Capital uses government to force their products down the throats of those who don't want it...
"The Indian government even banned conventional seeds from many government seed banks in an attempt to please Monsanto (in return, the country was given International Monetary Fund loans to help its economy)"
So "John" in India might be forced to plant GMO crops in order to maintain business operations with government seed banks - at the point of a gun.
Others might be poor and have to rely on the seeds from the government food bank... and there is only one seed at the food bank... GMO.
Now, let me be clear. I'm eating GMO before I starve to death in short order and I recommend others do the same.
In Iraq, "John" the farmer is required to use GMO seeds in order to sell commercially - at the point of an American Empire gun.
Just today an article went up at The Automatic Earth about a country that kicked GMO out of their country - abd a President that unfriend the IMF from his Facebook page. -lol-
Hungary Throws Out Monsanto AND The IMF
theautomaticearth.com
"In an effort to rid the country of Monsanto's GMO products, Hungary has stepped up the pace. This looks like its going to be another slap in the face for Monsanto. A new regulation was introduced this March which stipulates that seeds are supposed to be checked for GMO before they are introduced to the market. Unfortunately, some GMO seeds made it to the farmers without them knowing it.
Almost 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The GMO maize has been ploughed under, said Lajos Bognar, but pollen has not spread from the maize, he added."
Reading the article reveals that Farmer Jones in some countries plant GMO seeds because they've been duped and given GMO seeds they thought were organic.
Carl, you come off as thinking this tyrannical empire somehow represents you, as though the propaganda and thuggish behavior of the international oligarch controlled American Empire is somehow related to you.
You paradigm is wrong.
I highly recommend that you stop playing the sophist on the internet and actually educate yourself on this very important issue.
The illusion of knowledge is the intent of the corporate propaganda. It is your biggest stumbling block to understanding truth.
In the end, it is the truth that matters. 100s of millions of Americans consent to dementia on the installment plan against the recommendation of the EPA Scientists Union.
WHY EPA HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION
nteu280.org
Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ
lewrockwell.com
Monsanto won't tell you this - they prefer you to be ignorant which is why they forced Fox to lie about the dramatic increase in male bone cancers associated with their GMO bovine growth hormone.
Unsettling Accounts (the "news" goes to court to lie to their viewers)
youtube.com
Monsanto promotes Agent Orange
youtube.com
More GMO informational links can be found at:
prop-37.info |
