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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42021286 United States 07/21/2013 10:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From what I understand Monsanto has added 9 unapproved new proteins into their GMOs to inhibit insect consumption (in lieu of "fogging insecticide"), to promote growth, and to produce non "seed-bearing" crops. The 9 untested proteins when consumed by humans have been directly related to everything from childhood allergies and disease, to anaphylaxis. Test Edit |
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Nostril Domus (OP) User ID: 9357516 United States 07/21/2013 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From what I understand Monsanto has added 9 unapproved new proteins into their GMOs to inhibit insect consumption (in lieu of "fogging insecticide"), to promote growth, and to produce non "seed-bearing" crops. Quoting: St3v3 The 9 untested proteins when consumed by humans have been directly related to everything from childhood allergies and disease, to anaphylaxis. Thanks to both of you for your help as i have never really looked into all of this. How long have the GMO foods been around? I am very ignorant on the subject. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36552924 United States 07/21/2013 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So it is the pesticide that put in the GMO to ward off insects and pests to keep from having the farmers do it them selves? And we are somehow affected by this? Cancer, birth defects, etc..? from my research on health and the nature of reality tells me it may be like putting a square peg in a round hole, when you eat gmos... your body is sacred geometrically... this is what da vinci's vitruvian man was saying, in part.... on a molecular level, it is all geometry synching up between proteins and the receptor cells... see Bruce Lipton's Biology of Belief for more on this... gmos are toxic geometry... the pesticide is said to kill our digestive bacteria and cause all kinds of problems... worse, is that cutting edge organic farming is far superior in nutrient levels, taste and production... even shelf-life is longer with organic produce grown with the most advanced methods starting to be employed on massive farms in some countries... sonic bloom is an example of this type of agriculture |
samanthasunflower User ID: 37056712 United States 07/21/2013 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of spraying the insecticide on the plants, they put it in the plants DNA. So you get the pleasure of eating insecticide with every bite of food. Then they went after all other seed companies with their lawyers, and destroyed small farmers. They are the evil empire of seeds. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27720836 United States 07/21/2013 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Whats the deal? I see posts about GMO seeds and other things GMO and Monsanto. I dont really want to start any new research at the moment, so if i could just have a brief description of why they are so bad? Quoting: Nostril Domus It started with soy beans that could be sprayed with round up . Now almost all soy beans have the monsanto strain in it from cross pollination . (can't be replanted) Kinda like dupont owns the freon trademark . |
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furPete'sSake User ID: 7474237 United States 07/21/2013 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "It's a friendly friendly world" (Andy Kaufman) Calm seas do not a sailor make, Nor easy horses, a horseman. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when He could be certain only drowning men could see Him- Leonard Cohen |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42021286 United States 07/21/2013 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From what I understand Monsanto has added 9 unapproved new proteins into their GMOs to inhibit insect consumption (in lieu of "fogging insecticide"), to promote growth, and to produce non "seed-bearing" crops. Quoting: St3v3 The 9 untested proteins when consumed by humans have been directly related to everything from childhood allergies and disease, to anaphylaxis. Thanks to both of you for your help as i have never really looked into all of this. How long have the GMO foods been around? I am very ignorant on the subject. Glad to be of assistance. The use of "From what I understand" was kinda like "allegedly" if you catch my drift. It's to protect the innocent...ME! LOL I hope those nasty bastards choke on their own poop! |
Nostril Domus (OP) User ID: 9357516 United States 07/21/2013 10:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they want to own the patent on all of our food-- farmers will no longer be allowed to grow it or anybody else, therefore they will be controlling world's food supply. they also put human genes, animal genes, into plant life. they are evil Quoting: furPete'sSake Thanks to all for the explanations, if i get a chance next week i will try and read up on it a bit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43542490 United States 07/21/2013 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the quest for a good herbicide. They found glyphosate, aka roundup. It affects a gene(protein) in plants. All other life forms do not have this gene. There are only a very few species of plants that do not have it also. Spray glyphosate (aka Roundup) on a plant. the plant absorbs it, the chemical glyphosate attachs to the gene (a protein) and the plant dies. (in a nutshell) you can find the literature to find out more detail if you wish. So now we have a near universal herbicide. However we don't want the Crop be it corn, soy, wheat, rice to die, just the weeds. So they modify the genes of the crop so that the crop can withstand the herbicide glyphosate aka roundup. That is it. nothing more nothing less. the soy, corn etc have been genetically modified to resist the chemical glyphosate aka roundup. |
furPete'sSake User ID: 7474237 United States 07/21/2013 10:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the quest for a good herbicide. They found glyphosate, aka roundup. It affects a gene(protein) in plants. All other life forms do not have this gene. There are only a very few species of plants that do not have it also. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43542490 Spray glyphosate (aka Roundup) on a plant. the plant absorbs it, the chemical glyphosate attachs to the gene (a protein) and the plant dies. (in a nutshell) you can find the literature to find out more detail if you wish. So now we have a near universal herbicide. However we don't want the Crop be it corn, soy, wheat, rice to die, just the weeds. So they modify the genes of the crop so that the crop can withstand the herbicide glyphosate aka roundup. That is it. nothing more nothing less. the soy, corn etc have been genetically modified to resist the chemical glyphosate aka roundup. and kills all the bees "It's a friendly friendly world" (Andy Kaufman) Calm seas do not a sailor make, Nor easy horses, a horseman. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when He could be certain only drowning men could see Him- Leonard Cohen |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42362843 United Kingdom 07/21/2013 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of spraying the insecticide on the plants, they put it in the plants DNA. So you get the pleasure of eating insecticide with every bite of food. Quoting: samanthasunflower Then they went after all other seed companies with their lawyers, and destroyed small farmers. They are the evil empire of seeds. Whats the deal? I see posts about GMO seeds and other things GMO and Monsanto. I dont really want to start any new research at the moment, so if i could just have a brief description of why they are so bad? Quoting: Nostril Domus It started with soy beans that could be sprayed with round up . Now almost all soy beans have the monsanto strain in it from cross pollination . (can't be replanted) Kinda like dupont owns the freon trademark . /\ This Also you should know the FDA now leaves the safety testing of new GMO food up to Monsanto, bear in mind monsanto has been found guilty of falsifying scientific studies before. so they add genes to food that will make the plants produce insecticides, often the genes are totaly forieng to that species, they will use genes from octopuses, and put them in corn if that what will produce the chemical. Its not just that they also make Round-up resistant crops, so you can now eat soya that has grown in a field full of poison, yummy, (oh bty 90% of soy is now GM and monsantoe own something like 80% of the world GM food patents, They also own 1/3 of the world seed production and are seeking and outright monopoly on the seed supply). Monsanto have a lobyist in the whitehouse, they have ex monsanto guys as judges in courts, they have infiltrated bought and paid for many people in many governments. Have a read about the history of the company on wikipedia, they started of producing Defolients to kill crops and large areas of forest during the vietnam war, the Agent orange they created is still causing birth defects i believe, Then they made DDT and Round-up. They poisened a whole village / small town in the US with some of the chemicals they were producing. and now they want to control the worlds food supply. The EU recently passed legislation which makes all seeds illegal to sell unless they have been registered with them, because of the outrage it caused they put in exemptions for gardeners and small seed banks but they are still enforcable for very small companies selling heirloom, organic seeds. tell me this isnt leading somewhere very tyranical and nasty? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 43542490 United States 07/21/2013 10:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the quest for a good herbicide. They found glyphosate, aka roundup. It affects a gene(protein) in plants. All other life forms do not have this gene. There are only a very few species of plants that do not have it also. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43542490 Spray glyphosate (aka Roundup) on a plant. the plant absorbs it, the chemical glyphosate attachs to the gene (a protein) and the plant dies. (in a nutshell) you can find the literature to find out more detail if you wish. So now we have a near universal herbicide. However we don't want the Crop be it corn, soy, wheat, rice to die, just the weeds. So they modify the genes of the crop so that the crop can withstand the herbicide glyphosate aka roundup. That is it. nothing more nothing less. the soy, corn etc have been genetically modified to resist the chemical glyphosate aka roundup. and kills all the bees NOPE DOES NOTHING TO BEES |
Nostril Domus (OP) User ID: 9357516 United States 07/21/2013 10:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of spraying the insecticide on the plants, they put it in the plants DNA. So you get the pleasure of eating insecticide with every bite of food. Quoting: samanthasunflower Then they went after all other seed companies with their lawyers, and destroyed small farmers. They are the evil empire of seeds. Whats the deal? I see posts about GMO seeds and other things GMO and Monsanto. I dont really want to start any new research at the moment, so if i could just have a brief description of why they are so bad? Quoting: Nostril Domus It started with soy beans that could be sprayed with round up . Now almost all soy beans have the monsanto strain in it from cross pollination . (can't be replanted) Kinda like dupont owns the freon trademark . /\ This Also you should know the FDA now leaves the safety testing of new GMO food up to Monsanto, bear in mind monsanto has been found guilty of falsifying scientific studies before. so they add genes to food that will make the plants produce insecticides, often the genes are totaly forieng to that species, they will use genes from octopuses, and put them in corn if that what will produce the chemical. Its not just that they also make Round-up resistant crops, so you can now eat soya that has grown in a field full of poison, yummy, (oh bty 90% of soy is now GM and monsantoe own something like 80% of the world GM food patents, They also own 1/3 of the world seed production and are seeking and outright monopoly on the seed supply). Monsanto have a lobyist in the whitehouse, they have ex monsanto guys as judges in courts, they have infiltrated bought and paid for many people in many governments. Have a read about the history of the company on wikipedia, they started of producing Defolients to kill crops and large areas of forest during the vietnam war, the Agent orange they created is still causing birth defects i believe, Then they made DDT and Round-up. They poisened a whole village / small town in the US with some of the chemicals they were producing. and now they want to control the worlds food supply. The EU recently passed legislation which makes all seeds illegal to sell unless they have been registered with them, because of the outrage it caused they put in exemptions for gardeners and small seed banks but they are still enforcable for very small companies selling heirloom, organic seeds. tell me this isnt leading somewhere very tyranical and nasty? Interesting! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42362843 United Kingdom 07/21/2013 10:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh and i forgot to mention terminator seeds, and the ridiculous contracts they make farmers sign, which enables monsanto thugs to come search the farms anytime they want. they also regularly sue small farmers who have monsanto patented seed blow into there feild and grow or cross pollinate there crops, monsanto find out and they get sued even tho they had no desire to grow their shit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43542490 United States 07/21/2013 10:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of spraying the insecticide on the plants, they put it in the plants DNA. So you get the pleasure of eating insecticide with every bite of food. Quoting: samanthasunflower Then they went after all other seed companies with their lawyers, and destroyed small farmers. They are the evil empire of seeds. Whats the deal? I see posts about GMO seeds and other things GMO and Monsanto. I dont really want to start any new research at the moment, so if i could just have a brief description of why they are so bad? Quoting: Nostril Domus It started with soy beans that could be sprayed with round up . Now almost all soy beans have the monsanto strain in it from cross pollination . (can't be replanted) Kinda like dupont owns the freon trademark . /\ This Also you should know the FDA now leaves the safety testing of new GMO food up to Monsanto, bear in mind monsanto has been found guilty of falsifying scientific studies before. so they add genes to food that will make the plants produce insecticides, often the genes are totaly forieng to that species, they will use genes from octopuses, and put them in corn if that what will produce the chemical. Its not just that they also make Round-up resistant crops, so you can now eat soya that has grown in a field full of poison, yummy, (oh bty 90% of soy is now GM and monsantoe own something like 80% of the world GM food patents, They also own 1/3 of the world seed production and are seeking and outright monopoly on the seed supply). Monsanto have a lobyist in the whitehouse, they have ex monsanto guys as judges in courts, they have infiltrated bought and paid for many people in many governments. Have a read about the history of the company on wikipedia, they started of producing Defolients to kill crops and large areas of forest during the vietnam war, the Agent orange they created is still causing birth defects i believe, Then they made DDT and Round-up. They poisened a whole village / small town in the US with some of the chemicals they were producing. and now they want to control the worlds food supply. The EU recently passed legislation which makes all seeds illegal to sell unless they have been registered with them, because of the outrage it caused they put in exemptions for gardeners and small seed banks but they are still enforcable for very small companies selling heirloom, organic seeds. tell me this isnt leading somewhere very tyranical and nasty? You are very mis-informed to the point of ignorance. No the genetic modification does not make the plants create insecticides. It was not the agent orange that was actually harmful. Agent orange is 2,4D and 2,4,5T 50/50. It was a Dioxin by product in the manufacture of 2,4,5T that cause the health issues with agent orange. 2,4,5T is uiniversally banned. 2,4 D is still widely used. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42021286 United States 07/21/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh, and if it hasn't already been said, they're the same company that brought us Agent Orange... Quoting: St3v3 THEY AND ABOUT 10 OTHER US CHEMICAL COMPANIES FYI IT WAS YOUR GOVERNMENT THAT USED IT. Not the chemical companies. Oh, so now it's MY government? From wiki: A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. So fuck off with the semantics. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42362843 United Kingdom 07/21/2013 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are very mis-informed to the point of ignorance. No the genetic modification does not make the plants create insecticides. It was not the agent orange that was actually harmful. Agent orange is 2,4D and 2,4,5T 50/50. It was a Dioxin by product in the manufacture of 2,4,5T that cause the health issues with agent orange. 2,4,5T is uiniversally banned. 2,4 D is still widely used. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43542490 YOU ARE WRONG " Plant-incorporated protectants (PIPs) are plants that have had genes inserted causing the plants to produce a pesticide inside its own tissues. When plants are genetically modified to produce pesticides in this manner, they are are regulated as pesticides by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When plant genes are modified to make the plants tolerate certain herbicides, they are not regulated as pesticides." [link to npic.orst.edu] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43542490 United States 07/21/2013 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh, and if it hasn't already been said, they're the same company that brought us Agent Orange... Quoting: St3v3 THEY AND ABOUT 10 OTHER US CHEMICAL COMPANIES FYI IT WAS YOUR GOVERNMENT THAT USED IT. Not the chemical companies. Oh, so now it's MY government? From wiki: A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. So fuck off with the semantics. YEAH ASSHOLE, YOUR GOV< MY GOV WHATEVER. NICE SEMANTICS DICKFACE> THE GOV WAS WHO SPRAYED IT ON THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM AND THE SOLDIERS THERE. ALSO GO LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF "PRIMARILY". THAT MEANS THERE WERE MORE THAN THOSE 2 MAKING IT. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43478466 Canada 07/21/2013 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's the total reason, and goal of genetically altering food. First, GMO's combine genes from one living creature, into a food crop to be grown. It doesn't mean they take genes from other vegetables, grains or fruits, it could be rodents, insects, fish, or mammal genes. They then splice them into the organism they're trying to create, hoping to get a desirable reaction. The problem is that it's not this "Specific" and the whole process is marred with unpredictability. To further the problem, these genes are known to mutate randomly, so there's no telling what they are capable of especially after generations, and many further mutations. Once a company creates a crop with DNA from another living thing, it can now patent it as a "new" crop. With patenting comes licensing the crops to farmers, who are forced to pay massive prices for the seeds, and aren't allowed to save them (must buy new ones each year, abandoning thousands of years of selective breeding done for FREE by farmers). If a GMO crop contaminates a neighbors NON-GMO crop, MONSANTO or other GMO companies can SUE the farmer of the NON-GMO crop who is the victim, for patent infringement. Since they have both a team of lawyers, as well as military contractors working for them, the poor farmers are forced to back down, pay huge fines, and continue on their life destroyed by the ordeal. ========= GOAL #1: Control the worlds food supply by limiting its use through patents, and to control farmers. ========= From there we have the health consequences. Some GMO's like BT CORN, produce their own pesticide in the tissue. This pesticide is then ingested by humans and cattle causing massive damage. GMO's have been linked to infertility, organ failure, and cancer. They hide the dangers by being in bed with the FDA, and all studies are very limited in time usually only 3 months, so after 3 months, these newly invented crops become the GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY. Round-up ready crops have been engineered to resist monsanto's other lethal product glychophosphate herbicide (round up). This poison is used to kill weeds in the crops, while leaving the round up ready crops safe. This leads to absolute saturation of the field with this lethal herbicide, polluting the ground, water, and air around the field, as well as the health of all farmers. Once in the ground this herbicide is then ingested by the plants and deposited into the tissue for whoever eats it. The first full 2 year study of rats fed BT corn, and round up ready corn found ALL test subjects died prematurely. Primary cause was MASSIVE tumors so big the rats could hardly walk. ========= GOAL #2: Population control ========= Finally, food is the greatest weapon on Earth. A gun can only kill so many, a bomb can only kill so many, but if you can deprive a continent of food, you can wipe out millions, or even hundreds of millions. What's worse, is if that food actually poisons those people slowly so that years down the road they develop grapefruit sized tumors all over their body and drop dead. "CANCER" claims another victim. Nope, big pharma and big agra claim another victim is more accurate. Now if you have ever wondered where they get all those poor animals with cancer to do the cancer research on, you'll be surprised to find out that they create the cancer in cancer research lab animals. How do you intentionally create specific cancers in a lab animal? You inject pesticides into the organ you want to develop cancer. So what do you think it is doing to us, when we are eating food that literally produces its own pesticide? What is it doing to us to have our food and fields saturated with a proven to be lethal herbicide? The FDA just RAISED the "allowable limits" of the herbicide round up residue on fresh food. LUCKY US! Anyone who cares about humanity, should be against genetically modifying any food. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43542490 United States 07/21/2013 11:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are very mis-informed to the point of ignorance. No the genetic modification does not make the plants create insecticides. It was not the agent orange that was actually harmful. Agent orange is 2,4D and 2,4,5T 50/50. It was a Dioxin by product in the manufacture of 2,4,5T that cause the health issues with agent orange. 2,4,5T is uiniversally banned. 2,4 D is still widely used. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43542490 YOU ARE WRONG " Plant-incorporated protectants (PIPs) are plants that have had genes inserted causing the plants to produce a pesticide inside its own tissues. When plants are genetically modified to produce pesticides in this manner, they are are regulated as pesticides by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When plant genes are modified to make the plants tolerate certain herbicides, they are not regulated as pesticides." [link to npic.orst.edu] ARE MONSANTO"S SEEDS PIPS? PROVE IT? |