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Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Researchers with the European Food Safety Authority discovered variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S in the most widely harvested varieties of genetically-modified crops, including Monsanto's RoundupReady Soy and Maze. According to the researchers, Podevin and du Jardin, the particular 'Gene VI' is responsible for a number of possible consequences that could affect human health, including inhibition of RNA silencing and production of proteins with known toxicity. The EFSA is endorsing 'retrospective risk assessment' of CaMV promoter and its Gene VI sequences — in an attempt to give it a clean bill of health. It is unknown if the presence of the hidden viral genes were the result of laboratory contamination or a possible recombinant product of the resultant organism. There are serious implications for the production of GMO for foodstuffs, given either possibility."
Newsflash, for all intents and purposes, you're already dead.
And in this whisper of illusion, floating behind your corpse, in a blink of space-time
YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT A GRAIN OF RICE
No, I am currently alive. I wish to remain that way, until either my mind or my body decides that unable to continue doing so.
As such, I attempt to avoid what toxic and poisonous substances I can.
Just because my life is finite does not mean I go around huffing gas and drinking bleach.
When I purchase fresh produce, I do with the assumption that it is not, in fact, going to poison me any more that providing fuel and nutrients to my cells. Aging is poisons, you see.
You are correct in one manner though;
I am worried about a grain of rice. A grain of rice that came from a crop. A crop that could be feeding hundreds, if not thousands of people.
A grain of poison, in a grain of rice, feed to hundreds of people.
Sounds pretty scary in that case.
Africans could feed themselves with enough food to export as well. Shame they spend so much time on pointless wars burying landmines everywhere. But even then, you would have to shift millions away from subsistence farming so that fields could be ploughed and crops grown according to modern farming rotation methods.
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Fact: Feeding cooked food to cats causes disease and sterility after generations, proven during the mid 1900's. Cats fed raw fresh food were healthier over more generations.
Fact: Eating raw and unprocessed foods is healthy.
Fact: Nature has achieved balance over the course of millions of years, a fine tuned perfected balance.
Fact: White man has way to much fucking hubris to think they can outsmart the universe all in one go, in one century.
Fact: Humans invented greed, poverty, and in-balance of power, in nature, and in their culture.
Fact: Monsanto doesn't care about feeding anyone. They do care, and have a fiduciary responsibility to control over the market.
Fact: Science is imperfect and can be fallible, it has been fooled in the past. Its only as good as our scientists are. We are far from a thorough, well thought, slow moving race. Particularly when employed for the big bucks.
Fact: Science only provides a limited model of what we understand about the universe.
Fact: You motherfuckers are retarded as shit, insane, and suck for believing this shit can only end in a good, charitable, humanitarian, philanthropic way.
More facts, I'm in a trollin (not really, epic trolls require more subtley and finess), flamewarrioring mood. Sometimes polite discourse isn't as effective and fun as being an ass. You won't be able to convince me, a reasonably well educated middle aged white boy that GMO is perfectly safe. Because I know better. But I wan't you to know that I thoroughly disapprove of the god-damn bullshit arguments I see that say GMO perfectly is safe. Thats like attributing safety to the scientific method. It has no morals or ethical concern about safety. Its a process. Mr. Wizard does not give a shit about little Timmy.
Monsanto does not sell virus resistant corn (no one does for that matter), and if you know how virus resistant GE plants like papaya and squash work and how viruses work, you know that there is less viral material in the GE crop than the non-GE crop.
If there is any corp that can be rightly described as pure evil far beyond what is necessary to just make a profit
They act like exagerated Saturday morning cartoon villains...you know, it's almost as if half the stories about them are completely made up by people trying to demonize the technology by giving it an evil corporate face then hitting the crops via guilt by association.
The other half you hear (polluting & dumping ect.) is probably true though.
Tight regulations so that only the 'bean counters and paper shufflers' can gather the funds to jump through the regulations...overly tight regulations are part of the problem.