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140. A link? It's a start.

Let's go back to your original response to me:

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GMO's may not cause cancer ... but they are expensive

Roundup Ready soybean seed is about 40% more expensive than conventional soybean seed. But, if you want to truly talk about economics, you need to do the entire analysis. When you add in the costs of the other treatments, Roundup Ready soybean system is 15-20% less expensive than conventional.
http://www.uwex.edu/CES/crops/RRsoybn.htm

through patenting they fundamentally change the economics of agriculture--to the advantage of corporations and the disadvantage of farmers around the world.

Farmers are under no obligation to buy GMO seeds. The conventional seeds that existed before are still available.

They are also developed to depend on resource and fossil fuel intensive methods that are both expensive for farmers and environmentally destructive.

No more so than conventional seeds. I cannot envision one scenario where a GMO crop would require more resources and more fossil fuels than conventional crops. In the case of Bt corn, the need for insecticide sprays is essentially eliminated.

GMO's have not delivered nearly as much on their promises to bring about a "second" green revolution to save us from the consequences of the first.

That's a highly subjective comment. Arguments exist on both sides, but the "first green revolution" saved millions of lives. No credible argument against that fact exists.


Your second attempt at discussion, immediately above, repeated the arguments of the first with the exception of adding a link, plus this:

but as yet it seems that you see fit to reduce any questioning of the benefits of GMOs to anti-scientific woo perpetuated by the nasty anti-vaxxer-911-truther-echinacea-eating-numerology-gremlins.

Yes, that's right. Just as you have shown here, nearly every anti-GMO argument is founded on unconfirmed fears of the unknown or outright misrepresentation of the facts. I've lost patience with the endless repetition of the same mistaken concepts.