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You're mixing apples and... corn. Apples are typically grafted and you don't plant an orchard each year. With corn, farmers typically get their seed from the current crop. If they're forced, by lawsuits, to buy sterile seed from Monsanto then they have to buy again every year. The situation is even worse in poor countries.

https://www.cornucopia.org/201...

You wanted references:

https://detoxproject.org/glyph...

https://www.wellnessresources....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

https://www.cornucopia.org/201...

http://glyphosate.news/2017-01...

https://ratical.org/radiation/...

You, clearly, are a fucking moron.

As for the rest, you simply seem to be assuming that because there are people who disagree with reality, they must be democrats. Again, you clearly are a fucking moron. I'm a democrat.

Anti-vaccers are fucking morons... like you.

GMO's are most likely safe, BUT, the fact that companies have placed killswitches into food stocks so that farmers MUST re-buy seeds (the following year) ONLY FROM THE COMPANY... is fucking bullshit. Additionally, when a GMO crop is spread to adjacent farms via natural pathways, and then GMO companies sue the farmers out of their business because they ended up with some GMO crop in their fields.... that's fucking idiocy. https://www.cornucopia.org/201...

Anyone telling you radio waves are proven safe is a fucking idiot, including you. Radio waves have been studied until recently for health effects, and the studies so far have shown a mix of results. The only people who think it's been "proven" safe.. are fucking idiots, like you.

Holistic medicine is bullshit. Some herbal medicine may have some effect, but typically not remotely close to the effect that designed medicines do, but that's a world away from "holistic medicine."

Actual organic food is probably better for a persons system. If you don't think so, please, go have a nice cocktail of Dioxin and post tomorrow (i won't hold my breathe). As for proof actual organic is is worse or the same... it doesn't exist, except is some fucked in the head idiots rambling post right above mine. That said, i'm typically suspect of most foods that are labeled or marketed as organic; I think it's become more of a marketing ploy like gluten-free or "light" whatever.

So... why is it that conservatives fucks like you lie so damn much? I haven't met a single conservative in years that hasn't been a lying sack of shit... is it pathological, or do you truly not have an ethical bone in your body?

I fully understand what a billion is, you simply failed to do any research into how much money is spent on "no to labeling" campaigns. Look at how much money was spent in Colorado alone during the last election cycle where GMO labeling was on the ballot. Monsanto alone spent over 10milion dollars on this one small market. Now go through each state and see how much money is spent on these campaigns by all of the GMO producers, because states like New York and California saw similar or more spending. The sums being spent are enormous. Below is from the article linked last, and is 1 market 1 voting cycle (California). Now add up what Monsanto, Dupont, etc.. has spent Nationally in all markets.

Companies and their donations to keep GMO off of labels in California: Ironically most of the companies lobbying against Prop 37 have a stake in the organic industry. See that list below, it might surprise you.
Monsanto = $7,100,000.
DuPont = $5,200,000.
PepsiCo Inc. = $2,500,000.
BASF Plant Science = $2,000,000.
Bayer CropScience = $2,000,000.
Dow Agrosciences = $2,000,000.
Syngenta Corp = $2,000,000.
Kraft Foods = $2,000,000.
Coca-Cola = $1,700,000.
Nestle USA = $1,315,400.
ConAgra Foods = $1,200,000.
General Mills = $1,200,000.
Del Monte = $674,000.
Kellogg Co. = $790,700.
Smithfield = $671,000.
Council for Biotechnology Information = $625,000.
Heinz = $500,000.
Hershey Company = $493,900.
J.M. Smucker Co. = $555,000.
Grocery Manufacturers Association = $375,000.
Hormel Foods Corp. = $374,300.
Unilever = $ 460,000.
Mars Food North America = $370,280.
Bimbo Bakeries USA = $422,900.
Ocean Spray Cranberries = $326,500.
Campbell Soup Co. = $320,455.
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC = $266,100.
Dean Foods Co. = $253,950.
Biotech Industry Organization = $250,000.
McCormick & Co. Inc. = $248,200.
Abbott Nutrition (Infant Formulas / Similac) = $230,900.
Rich Products Corp. = $225,500.
Cargill Inc. = $226,800.
Welch's = $167,000.
Knouse Foods Cooperative = $160,300.
W.M. Wrigley Jr. Co. = $116,900.
Sunny Delight Beverages Co. = $114,500.
Tree Top = $110,300.
Bumble Bee Foods = $98,000.
Sara Lee Corp. = $96,800.
Hillshire Brands (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean) = $86,000.
McCain Foods USA = $50,600.
Dole Packaged Foods Co. = $45,580.
Goya = $ 56,100.
Clorox = $33,000.
S & W = $21,100.

I'm always a pretty critical thinker and always question the source, but based on everything I've seen and read on this topic this seems to be the real deal

Then read this. 60 farmers. Not 300,000. Think critical about this: is a movement that lies to you going to give you good information about Monsanto and genetic engineering?

Is Monsanto the best company int the world? No. Are they the great Satan they're made out to be? They're not that either. The reason you see so much hate for Monsanto is because GE crops work. They work well, farmers are neither stupid nor powerless and they buy GE seed for a reason, and they're safe. If, for some reason, you dislike genetic engineering, there's only one way to reconcile these facts with you're superstitions: conspiracy. Think about how anti-vaxxers describe Merck or Pfizer, or what creationists say about evolutionary biologists. Same thing. I'm certainly not saying you should take anything Monsanto says at face value, be skeptical about them too, but 99% of what you hear about them is, quite frankly, just bullshit by the scientifically illiterate anti-GMO crowd.

I hope not. There is only 60 farmers suing. The 300,000 number comes form the number of members in the plaintiff organizations. So, if you sign up for the Cornucopia Institute's magazine or whatever, they you're being counted as one of the farmers suing. The 300,000 farmers thing is flat out wrong. Not that anyone cares. When it comes to GMOs, people tend to turn off their brain. I suppose it is a side effect of our population moving away from the land. Agricultural misinformation tends to spread when no one even knows a farmer anymore. This is what pisses me off about the state of genetic engineering. So many people are against it, and I think it is because so many people flat out lie about them.

This summary is absolute bullshit. There's only 60 farmers in the lawsuit! The rest of the people are members of the plaintiff organizations! That 300,000 number is a flat out lie. What is wrong with doing a little fact checking?

Good call. You're right. If you actually look into this thing, you'll see that the lawsuit represents only 60 farmers . It is the organizations that have over 300,000 members. So, to make it look like farmers really hate GMOs (guess what, they don't, ask one sometime), they count every member as a farmer. There's less than a million farmers in the US. Basically, this is just the anti-GMO people being lying assholes on par with anti-vaxxers and evolution deniers, and unfortunately, most people know jack about agriculture they think that numbers like that are actually realistic. Yep, 1/3 farmers hate Monsanto, yet over 90% of some crops are their GE seed. How did this nonsense get called news?

Read this. While I don't personally subscribe to their entire agenda, it's a good overview of the dangers of cloning.