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Monsanto and PCBs
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Do you all remember the Challenger Disaster? After that, many memos were released detailing how one of the seals would absolutely fail at the temperatures and pressures at which the shuttle was to be launched that day. I have a very strong feeling that this is the same thing. Some engineer was doing his job - reporting the facts. Some one in that plant, in order to not make himself look so bad, buttered it up a little - maybe this stuff isn't so great after all. And so it goes, until we reach where we are today. As far as anti-GM foods go, I say all that is a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap. We are not talking about breeding man-eating vegetables (although it would give vegetarians a run for their money). We are talking about doing the same thing that farmers have been doing for centuries - breeding better crops. Only now, instead of it taking generations of growing and flowering and cross-pollenating, it is being done with genetics. Isn't technology and the advance of it what so many of you support?
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Do you all remember the Challenger Disaster? After that, many memos were released detailing how one of the seals would absolutely fail at the temperatures and pressures at which the shuttle was to be launched that day. I have a very strong feeling that this is the same thing. Some engineer was doing his job - reporting the facts. Some one in that plant, in order to not make himself look so bad, buttered it up a little - maybe this stuff isn't so great after all. And so it goes, until we reach where we are today. As far as anti-GM foods go, I say all that is a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap. We are not talking about breeding man-eating vegetables (although it would give vegetarians a run for their money). We are talking about doing the same thing that farmers have been doing for centuries - breeding better crops. Only now, instead of it taking generations of growing and flowering and cross-pollenating, it is being done with genetics. Isn't technology and the advance of it what so many of you support?