Quote: (12-13-2013 09:30 AM)wiscanada Wrote:
Quote: (12-12-2013 02:12 AM)Teutatis Wrote:
Quote: (12-11-2013 02:28 PM)wiscanada Wrote:
I don't know if I agree that there is some sort of super conspiracy against the populace. I think its because the US allows for freedom of choice. Its not like you can only get Taco Bell and Organic food is banned. You can get either.
Cigarettes are also bad for people but its a personal choice if someone wants to buy them
I like that in America its my choice to get fat or not, to smoke or not, or in some states to wear a helmet when I ride a motorcycle or not.
I support making the information available so that people can make a choice not banning the poor choices like a parent of a child.
It's not really a choice when the whole game is rigged to benefit certain corporations in detriment of everyone else.
Last time I checked an american is also free to buy land, go 'off the grid' with their home and even grow their own organic food and livestock. Its not easy to achieve but its also not illegal.
When they round up the Mennonites in the hills of the Appalachians and Wisconsin and tell them they have to eat taco bell and GMO tomatoes then I'll get a bit paranoid that the 'game is rigged'
That being said, the cards are stacked against those who choose to play the game. You are right there.
America is far from free, money go from generation to generation. Sure there are a few people who comes from nothing and make it big time, but that´s a rare case. But "the American" dream is more marketing.
Just wanna repeat, I am pro GMO when it comes to research, but there needs to be much better testing. In the land of the free people are not allowed to test the food they are about to eat? Huge corporation like Monsanto can have protections acts to protect them from lawsuits?
You really want to put your trust in a company that said PCB and agent orange was safe? If GMO turns out to be safe, its more about luck then good research.
If your not sure what Agent Orange dose to humans, here are some examples.
Most scary part is when the cat is out of the bag, its impossible to regain past ecosystem as the GMO products are cross breathing into all the other plants.
Monsanto is working on a terminator seed, this way farmers will have to come back and buy their seeds year after year as they produce sterile offspring. A scary though is; What if these terminator seeds instead of producing sterile seeds, produce fertile children, but sterile second generation and this DNA starts cross breathing into non GMO organisms.
I can see Monsanto has everything to gain on claiming their products are safe, I can´t really see what the independent research has to gain to come with anything but objective information.