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Caliban wrote:One certainty. Within the next thirty years I will have probably turned to leaf litter, so
"gut flora"
toilet
plumbing
pipe dream of utopian health
smelly farts
earlier death
but then we will become different again and deal with it.
Kurt wrote:
Do you object to ug99 GMO resistant wheat?
friendlyskies wrote:I view GMO dangers the same way I view global warming.
For instance, say you had GMO corn with a gene derived from a pig, which causes more sugar to collect in the grain - in Iowa. Plant the same corn in the high desert, it might begin synthesis of a protective wax to help the plant retain water. This might mimic something the new gene did for the pig... say, producing some component of cholesterol. That component might make humans more likely to have heart attacks, if they regularly eat this corn. And so on.
Yeah, whatever. It's all speculative. Go ahead and eat GMO corn, I won't stop you. I don't want to eat it though, and I do everything I can to avoid it. I do wish they were forced to label it, that would make everything sooooo much easier.
(NaturalNews) Residents of a small West Virginia town near a Monsanto chemical production plant have filed a class action lawsuit against the agri-giant for pollution caused by the decades-long production of 2,4,5-T, a chemical compound that represents about half of the infamous Agent Orange herbicide. At the very same time, the Dow Chemical Company is seeking government deregulation of a new genetically-modified (GM) variety of corn resistant to 2,4-D, the other half of Agent Orange.
Agent Orange is the same herbicide chemical weapon that the US government sprayed over agricultural land in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and that has been banned since the 1970s. Nearly a half million people were killed, and another half million children born with birth defects, as a result of the mass murder sprayings conducted by the US government and military.
But tens of thousands of Americans have also suffered from exposure to Agent Orange chemicals as well, particularly those living in Nitro, WV, where Monsanto had been producing the carcinogenic chemicals for many decades. More than 80,000 local residents are included in a class action lawsuit against Monsanto, which highlights the cancer-causing effects of exposure to 2,4,5-T.
However, while this lawsuit takes shape, the Dow Chemical Company, another purveyor of GMOs and their toxic herbicides and pesticides, is petitioning the government to deregulate a new variety of GM corn known as DAS-40278-9, which has a built-in resistance to 2,4-D. This means, of course, that the company will need to spray 2,4-D on the crops in order for them to grow, which would require the EPA to lift its ban on the chemical (http://www.naturalnews.com/034492_D...).
2,4-D is said to be the less lethal portion of Agent Orange, and yet it is known to cause very serious health problems, including abdominal cavity bleeding and increased mortality in pregnant rats. The chemical is also linked to causing serious birth defects, organ damage, neurological dysfunction, and infertility (http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profile...).
With both this and the lawsuit in mind, it is absolutely ludicrous that Dow is now seeking permission to douse the American agricultural landscape in these very same Agent Orange chemicals. Perhaps the company simply thinks nobody is paying attention and that it will quietly get away with this little scheme by keeping it quiet -- if so, it is sadly mistaken.
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once you see a fish just standing around on a rock it's easy to believe anything is possible in nature without any primitive human intervention.
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