Saturday, March 2, 2013

There's no good Gene technology for plants

Begin quote from page 43 of Discover Magazine April 2013:
"There's no Good Gene Technology. It's like Atomic Energy---Once you open the door, you can't close it." Michael Grolm Beekeeper, activist (in Europe). end quote.

What was once called the "Green Revolution" by Norman Borlaug in Mexico which consisted of taking regular wheat and creating a hybrid with Dwarf Wheat to create a stalk that could  hold more harvestable wheat worked but only at the cost of having to used major amounts of insecticides and artificial fertilizer worldwide. And even though this fed many more people on earth it also polluted the land the streams, the oceans, the animals and the people with insecticides and artificial fertilizer and it also tended in the long run to deplete the soils wherever it was grown.

Now, Genetic engineering has come into being of almost everything grown commercially on earth. No one asks questions of "What effect will this have on human beings?" or "What is the long term consequence of doing this?" etc. Instead big conglomerates think only, "How much money can be made doing this?" So it never is about, "How sustainable is this?" or "What effects will this have on human bodies in the short or long term?" it is ONLY about, "How much money can this make?"

Also, another interesting point is that one of the likely reasons bees are dying is because of genetic engineering of plants. They just can't survive these types of pollens. IF bees can't survive genetically engineered plants, humans won't survive them very long either. And without bees nothing will grow without little robot bees to pollinate everything. And if there are little robot bees to pollinate everything "How long will it be before there are big human robots that replace all human flesh and blood because nothing made of flesh can any longer survive here on earth?"

Oh by the way I also learned in this article that 93% of all Soybeans grown in the U.S. are genetically modified. This is very scary because this means anything you eat with soy in it made from U.S. soybeans has OVER a 9 out of 10 chance of being genetically modified.

Begin quote from page 42 of above Article I quoted from above:
"Anti-GMO activists in the U.S. don't stange late-night guerrilla raids, vandalizing farms swathed in Hazmat gear. In stead they're more likely to patrol the corridors of power in sport jackets, lobbying lawmakers for oversight or sueing biotechs in court.

But even without these tactics, American activists, including a handful of scientists, have been raising skepticism about GMO foods. "The science just hasn't been done," says Charles Benbrook, an agricultural policy expert at Washington State University and a leading voice of dissent.

Today, about 90 percent of the corn, soy, and cotton grown in the U.S. are genetically modified to be either resistant to pests or tolerant of herbicides, indlucint the popular weed killer Roundup, so that farmers can spray throughout the growing season without harming crops." end quote.

By the way Roundup is chemically almost exactly the same as  agent orange which causes multiple heads, multiple legs,  etc.  in children in Viet Nam where it was sprayed in the DMZ there between North and South Viet Nam during the Viet Nam war. Thousands of deformed children have been born in this area since that war and are still being born like this there. Because there IS NO safe level of Dioxin for humans.

Also, one of Monsanto's gmo's is a corn which is registered as an insecticide because the insecticide which kills the insects is inside the germ of the corn kernel itself. So, the next time you buy corn chips or anything made of corn with corn syrup think about this. This is one insecticide you cannot wash off because it IS the corn.

Genetic Engineering of plants is sort of like a person driving their car with them in it over a cliff and dying. Yes. A person can do this but wouldn't it be crazy and suicidal? Don't you agree?

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