The World According to Monsanto

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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    Your claim thats organic farming is worse for the environment.

    No conspiracy, just one low moral company do their best to claim complete monopoly of the worlds food supply in the name of the almighty dollar above all else.

    You've got to learn to distinguish a shitty company and its practices from the raw technology. I won't argue that Monsanto is a bunch of sleazebags who have very shitty corporate practices. But that doesn't mean the science behind GMOs isn't sound, or safe.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    All the GMO supporters understand that GMO farming is all based on a cheap and long term supply of oil? Right?
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  • godpt3 wrote:
    You've got to learn to distinguish a shitty company and its practices from the raw technology. I won't argue that Monsanto is a bunch of sleazebags who have very shitty corporate practices. But that doesn't mean the science behind GMOs isn't sound, or safe.

    Dosn't mean the contrary either. Regardless.

    Roundup ready....impervious to buckets upon buckets of toxic poison being dumped on them...to be eaten by human beings

    mmm delicious....mmm insane,,,
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Dosn't mean the contrary either. Regardless.

    Roundup ready....impervious to buckets upon buckets of toxic poison being dumped on them...to be eaten by human beings

    mmm delicious....mmm insane,,,


    Exactly!

    Really stupid to rely on a high tech oil econamy. It is just not sustainable.
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    People who actually farm GMOs can not eat the food they grow because it is too toxic. A fact that the USDA employee conventiantly left off.

    Do you have any science to actually back that statement up, or are you just spouting nonsense?
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    Do you have any science to actually back that statement up, or are you just spouting nonsense?


    Read my thread In Defense of Food.

    You have facts that refute mine?

    Eh?
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Double post


    Double post
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    All the GMO supporters understand that GMO farming is all based on a cheap and long term supply of oil? Right?

    How does that work, exactly???
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    The lettuce problem in Cali was determaind to have been caused by the run off from the farm next door.

    And do you know what that runoff was? "Organic fertilizer", or to put it another way... manure.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    How does that work, exactly???


    Do you have any clue what so ever as to what the base ingredient is in inorganic pesticides and fertilizers?
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    And do you know what that runoff was? "Organic fertilizer", or to put it another way... manure.

    The manure was from cows feed on pesticide laden food.
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    The manure was from cows feed on pesticide laden food.

    It doesn't matter what the cattle was fed. Pesticides DO NOT cause e. coli. Manure and fecal matter, on the other hand, DO.
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    Do you have any clue what so ever as to what the base ingredient is in inorganic pesticides and fertilizers?

    Nitrogen. You're breathing it right now.
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    Read my thread In Defense of Food.

    You have facts that refute mine?

    Eh?

    I read that. And I don't think it means what you think it means.
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    sourdough wrote:
    I think one of the questions we have to look at it why we are even in a position to need higher yields and whether we really need them in the first place?

    Have you checked population growth, worldwide recently? And have you seen where those numbers are projected to go?

    Have you also seen the statistics on the number of people employed in agriculture now as opposed to, say 1980.


    Do the math.
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  • Exactly!

    Really stupid to rely on a high tech oil econamy. It is just not sustainable.

    The population numbers will have to stabilize one way or the other, and food is going to be the great decider. Oil definitely isn't forever.

    The squeeze is on.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    The population numbers will have to stabilize one way or the other, and food is going to be the great decider. Oil definitely isn't forever.

    The squeeze is on.

    Remember: sustainable agriculture only works if you have a sustainable population.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    Nitrogen. You're breathing it right now.





    yes nitrogen is what you get but it is made from ammonia which comes from Natural Gas.

    Pesticides are made with Chlorine which comes from oil.
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  • Calling someone a MOFO and trying to cram poisens down our throats then saying peace?

    Sounds like you do work for Monsonto or Dow?

    wow dude lighten up. "mofo" is like saying "bro" or "kid"... no harm intended. Nobody is shoving poisons down your throat. GM foods have one protein exchanged from another plant or bacteria to the host plant through the process of hybridization. GM foods have been ingested for over 50 years now and no credible scientiest will tell you there is a link between GM foods and any disease. Organic farming is MORE harmful to the environment and there is no nutritional benefit in fact organics can HARM you more than genetically modified foods because they are fertilized with hundreds of lbs per acre of SHIT or HUMAN WASTE that gives you E Coli or floats down the river. BILLIONS of people would starve if all gm crops were switched to organics because of the huge yield loss that is ABSOLUTELY PROVEN, not in theory but in practice. I could go on and on about this but again... I've gotta go catch a flight to SF!!!

    And I say "peace" because I am a big liberal fucking hippie... who happens to disagree with you all about this situation....
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • godpt3 wrote:
    Remember: sustainable agriculture only works if you have a sustainable population.

    No brainer...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    yes nitrogen is what you get but it is made from ammonia which comes from Natural Gas.

    The two most common fertilizers are ammonium nitrate (the stuff tim mcveigh used in OKC) and anhydrous ammonia (favored by meth makers everywhere).
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    No brainer...

    well until you can get the pope to stop being catholic sustainable population is out of the question.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    wow dude lighten up. "mofo" is like saying "bro" or "kid"... no harm intended. Nobody is shoving poisons down your throat. GM foods have one protein exchanged from another plant or bacteria to the host plant through the process of hybridization. GM foods have been ingested for over 50 years now and no credible scientiest will tell you there is a link between GM foods and any disease. Organic farming is MORE harmful to the environment and there is no nutritional benefit in fact organics can HARM you more than genetically modified foods because they are fertilized with hundreds of lbs per acre of SHIT or HUMAN WASTE that gives you E Coli or floats down the river. BILLIONS of people would starve if all gm crops were switched to organics because of the huge yield loss that is ABSOLUTELY PROVEN, not in theory but in practice. I could go on and on about this but again... I've gotta go catch a flight to SF!!!

    And I say "peace" because I am a big liberal fucking hippie... who happens to disagree with you all about this situation....



    Did you go to UC Davis or Chico State? I have good freinds who were ag majors at Chico who work for the Ag department out of Phonex many years ago. Lost track of them.

    But point is

    That is where the studies of this idea that GMOs make more food. It just is not true. If only for the fact that we are running out of cheap oil. And when that is gone so goes the GMO farms.


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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    well until you can get the pope to stop being catholic sustainable population is out of the question.


    There is something to agree on. There is no question IMO that churches such as the Catholics and the Evangelical Protestants are a road block to a safe future for all of us.

    The catholics who think there is no limites to how many humans can fit on this earth

    and

    The Evangelical Protestants who want us all to die (Armageden) so they can go to heaven and finally be happy with themselves.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    The two most common fertilizers are ammonium nitrate (the stuff tim mcveigh used in OKC) and anhydrous ammonia (favored by meth makers everywhere).


    Exactly

    they are both made from Natural Gas
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    I read that. And I don't think it means what you think it means.


    from the article I posted


    " In fact, they would often have a little patch of organic potatoes by the house for themselves, because they could not eat the food coming out of their farms. "


    Looks like it does say what I think it says. There is a lot more on that in the full book.
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  • godpt3 wrote:
    well until you can get the pope to stop being catholic sustainable population is out of the question.

    Regardless Organic is better.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    " In fact, they would often have a little patch of organic potatoes by the house for themselves, because they could not eat the food coming out of their farms. "

    that applies to pretty much any chemical you put on any crop at all. Read the warning labels on the stuff that repels insects from your garden tomato plants and they say the same thing. You've got to wait X number of days before eating the fruit. That's just the nature of the beast.
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    godpt3 wrote:
    that applies to pretty much any chemical you put on any crop at all. Read the warning labels on the stuff that repels insects from your garden tomato plants and they say the same thing. You've got to wait X number of days before eating the fruit. That's just the nature of the beast.


    That is sad

    I eat my tomatos right off the vine. I often pick lettuce and eat it with in seconds. Sometimes there is still dirt on it. Mmm good organic food.

    Just as god created.
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  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
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