The world according to Monsanto II

[Don87]

Here is a short research paper I wrote in 2006 on GM foods for a nursing prerequisite class. From a health standpoint there are some concerns and there is research to back up those concerns. Look up the cites and read them yourself. By the way, I got a A on the paper.

Very nicely written paper, thank you very much for sharing. You did your homework!

I had no idea, or had forgotten just how many GMO crops they were designing till I read your paper:

As of May 1, 2005, the FDA has approved 68 GM products for use as human food, animal feed, or both. This includes varieties of tomato, corn, canola, sugar beet, cotton, alfalfa, wheat, creeping bentgrass, rice, flax, potato, radicchio, squash, papaya, and soybean

This I had heard about before, and made a mental note of the brand: The CFS states the FDA has ignored studies that showed the Flavr Savr tomato caused stomach lesions in laboratory rats (The hidden health, 2000)

This sentence from your paper: The FDA today does not require animal studies for evaluation of GM foods to determine toxicity, instead relying on comparison of GM food to non-GM food as not being substantially different


Is what concerns me since the Executive order from G.H.W.Bush, that started the problems we are facing now....IMHO


I hope others read your research paper, and actually understand what they are reading.............then continue to look thru the 'hype' and understand what is in front of us.

Thanks again for sharing.

 

[Don87]

Shortgame thang for airdates will have wife TiVo till I can get home to watch.
Don87 thanks I found this thread pretty interesting, unfortunately some get carried away. Even without the research or scientific facts, IMO changing the inherent design of a food source to be resistant to chemicals so we can spray lots more chemicals does not seem like good practice. You hear more and more about viruses becoming resistant to antibiotics so we create stronger antibiotics. You have to wonder how long till the weeds develop a resistance to roundup.
Look at the tobacco industry. How long did they know of the issues with their product before, the harmfulness of tobacco was revealed. Monsanto makes millions or billions off these products just as RJ Reynolds did and still does. I have no problem with fwj growing gmo to feed his family, or Monsanto selling him seed and roundup. As I have stated it's a decision to avoid these products that I have chosen. I would much rather support the local farmer who chooses the same.

Last year my BIL planted corn, next to soybean in one of his fields, both were GMO. He planted the soybean, basically as a 'buffer' to keep the deer away from the corn.

Well this year he planted GMO oats on that entire field..........the strange thing is............where he had the soybean planted last year, some type of green weed , with a purple tint showed up that no one in this area has seen before, and the herbicide won't touch it in the 'old soybean field'.

 

[Wooddust]

Maybe the oat seed had weed seeds in it?

 

[weedpharma]

Monsanto is a large company investing huge amounts of money simply to help the world produce more food and feed the needy......No thought of profits at all.

West Australia has a fight between neighbours over contamination of an organic farm's canola by GM canola grown next door. The organic farmer has lost his organic status due to the occurance of GM canola in his crop due to wind blown pollen.

Weedpharma

 

[ruralruss]

Maybe the oat seed had weed seeds in it?

Yes, roundup resistant weeds. That is becoming more and more common. The only way to kill them is with really nasty stuff. Or you can do like i did 45 or so years ago, pull them up for a penny a row. Those were very long rows indeed!

 

[Don87]

Maybe the oat seed had weed seeds in it?

But the new weeds that emerged, only came up where the soybean was planted. The fields were side by side, and planted at the same time. Roughly 10 acres corn, and 4 acres soybean(last year). Thats the part that doesn't make sense.

 

[Don87]

The Western rootworm beetle one of the most serious threats to corn has developed resistance to Monsantoç—´ Bt-corn, and entire crops are being lost.


Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle Develops Bt-Resistance - Bad Seed News


A lot of us knew this would happen eventually.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Last year my BIL planted corn, next to soybean in one of his fields, both were GMO. He planted the soybean, basically as a 'buffer' to keep the deer away from the corn.

Well this year he planted GMO oats on that entire field..........the strange thing is............where he had the soybean planted last year, some type of green weed , with a purple tint showed up that no one in this area has seen before, and the herbicide won't touch it in the 'old soybean field'.

There has never been a GMO oat variety released to the public. CLAIMING such or that someone planted a GMO oat crop is a bold faced lie. Whether it was YOUR lie or someone elses, it only FURTHER demonstrates your lack of credibility, as well as defining your lack of knowledge in the subject at hand.


Now go whine to the mods....again....

 

[Don87]

He sprayed for weeds in the oats twice, I have no clue what product he used.

I just know that the weeds emerged, but only in the section that had previously been planted in soyben.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I have no clue.

And THAT'S the truth!