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Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
Originally posted by HappilyEverAfter
I'll go with MASS PRODUCED organics can be suspect, but true locally grown I'm confident of purity.
Ok that one i'll give you because my family has a nice little allotment where pesticides are banned But you get what i mean, if you buy it in a supermarket it is usually made by the very same corporations people are complaining about because these corporatins saw the potential market and purchased the necessary farms. At the same time they increased the pesticide usage up to the permitted levels.
........Thread update........
A federal judge has ruled - for the first time in US history - that a genetically modified (GM) crop be destroyed.
In doing so, US District Judge Jeffrey White of California delivered a serious blow to the Monsanto Company’s GM sugar beet empire for reasons of environmental harm. Judge White ruled back August that all future plantings of GM beets stop until the US Department of Agriculture could conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) that proves the crop’s safety.
Judge orders Monsanto GMO sugar beets destroyedThe USDA however, in typical corporate lapdog fashion, violated the ruling and allowed Monsanto to plant the GM crops anyway. This led an angry Judge White to order the controversial beets destroyed. Monsanto had a fit over the legal ban last month.
Originally posted by wayno
You say hydroponics is true organics one minute and then say to stop supporting orgnics. You're on some sort of mission here, but your gears are slipping.
Originally posted by amazed
No, that is called "natural selection", and is something which nature can do. Genetically modifying means going in and adding things which nature, would never do. IE: adding scorpion genes to cabbage. Nature would never do this.
Originally posted by amazed
I do agree with your premise of moving to hydroponics though, I also feel each area, done correctly, could grow just about any food that people may want. Especially if we do so by going UP.
Originally posted by amazed
Anyway, GMO in my mind equals very bad for not only our health, but the health of the planet.
Harm None
Peace
Originally posted by HappilyEverAfter
Yes,
but have you spent time within the codex?
I've really been tearing the thing apart for a while now, and it's very deceptive.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by ImaginaryReality1984
You've bought into the propaganda. Why is it that our silo's used to be stocked full of reserves for such instances as drought, and now they're being emptied? Obviously, this is by design. We don't need GMO's to feed the people of the world. Rubbish.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
Well please feel free to explain that to the 2 billion people who would die without GMO foods. Draught resistant wheat and rice are GMO and if we removed them then 2 billion people would starve. Hey you might be willing to let that happen but i'm not so happy about killing a load of people.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
Sorry but maybe you are not aware of the yields of organic crops as they are currently practiced. If you took away all pesticides, all non organic fertilizers, all fungicides then you would see around 2 billion people dying of starvation. Sorry to tell you but i'm well aware of the food supply because i'm passionate about hydroponics and aeroponics and so i pick up a lot.
You could feed the world organically if you completely destroyed the soil farming industry and moved to other methods. I haven't bought into the propoganda, you have.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by HappilyEverAfter
I'll go with MASS PRODUCED organics can be suspect, but true locally grown I'm confident of purity.
Did you watch the video?
They gave an example of some isolated farmers in Mexico who were dead sure they had a pure stock of seeds they never had any contact with others and when tested they were shocked to find out it was contaminated.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
Sorry but maybe you are not aware of the yields of organic crops as they are currently practiced. If you took away all pesticides, all non organic fertilizers, all fungicides then you would see around 2 billion people dying of starvation. Sorry to tell you but i'm well aware of the food supply because i'm passionate about hydroponics and aeroponics and so i pick up a lot.
You could feed the world organically if you completely destroyed the soil farming industry and moved to other methods. I haven't bought into the propoganda, you have.
Why are you mentioning organic
We can totally feed the world with hydroponics/aeroponics if necessary.
I'm not talking about 100% natural, organic method I'm talking about non-gmo. They're not needed. There is NO good reason for it whatsoever.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
I agree with about 99% but again. This paragraph here gets under my skin.
We do not know the long term affects of this manipulation. Sure we get larger yields for 20/50/100 or even 200 years. On Earth time-frame/schedule things took thousands/ hundred of thousand or even millions of years to evolve. Here we package it after 90 days and deem it safe. Which in the short term [20-200] supports a larger human population and in the meantime they could very well be sewing the seeds of our extinction long term.
You've bought into the propaganda. Why is it that U.S. silo's used to be stocked full of reserves for such instances as drought, and now they're being emptied? Obviously, this is by design. We don't need GMO's to feed the people of the world. Rubbish.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
But we have been using artifical selection for well over 3000 years and have not yet run into problems. All genetic engineering does is to accelerate the process. Instead of breeding 200 generations we take a shortcut. That to me is perfectly acceptable but as i say i do take major issues when a company engineers a plant to produce a pesticide, simply because when we ingest that plant we ingest that pesticide.