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79. Any bug I hate enough in my yard is usually easy to get with soap

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Sat Jun 1, 2013, 10:43 PM

Jun 2013

Aphids. Spritz em. With Dawn. Just like BP.

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Frankenfoods reduce global warming [View all] roseBudd Jun 2013 OP

Well, now we have "superweeds" and even worse poison is being used to try and kill them. djean111 Jun 2013 #1

2,4-D is agent orange? And it needs to be "re-authorized" for use on weeds? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #4

Agent orange was a 50-50 mix of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T roamer65 Jun 2013 #21

Restricted? MuseRider Jun 2013 #32

So do rainforests. bunnies Jun 2013 #2

Are you going to eat a rainforest? Is that your point? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #3

No, I think we will be cutting down the rainforest in order to mine and drill and plant GMO crops. djean111 Jun 2013 #5

How is that possibly related to GMO plants? You think GMOs faciliatate that somehow? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #7

yes. Absolutely. bunnies Jun 2013 #9

Obsess much? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #12

Wait. Im confused. Am I allowed to post here? nt bunnies Jun 2013 #14

Obviously, and you and I were already discussing when you decided to open a parallel discussion. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #16

lol. bunnies Jun 2013 #19

That is precisely the logic you are using. Precisely. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #28

Not stupid. bunnies Jun 2013 #40

Organic requires more acres tilled. Not less. roseBudd Jun 2013 #24

Sprague-Dawley rats are the Angelina Jolie of research rats roseBudd Jun 2013 #25

Organic no-till farming/horticulture? NoOneMan Jun 2013 #49

Organic can not feed the entire planet roseBudd Jun 2013 #53

Oh, but who has the time to care about preserving everyone who is polluting the planet NoOneMan Jun 2013 #61

The very picture of an ugly American roseBudd Jun 2013 #92

Ditto NoOneMan Jun 2013 #97

I'd eat something from a rainforest before Id eat that Monsanto shit. bunnies Jun 2013 #8

Wow. Those Monsanto boys get around. Now, they're into clearing rainforests. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #10

Its ok. You can deny the facts if you want. bunnies Jun 2013 #13

I don't deny that rainforests are being cleared, but Monsanto's involvement is next to nothing. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #15

I dont understand how you can say that. bunnies Jun 2013 #18

Let's count the degrees of separation: Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #27

And Monsanto doesnt strong-arm these farmers at all. bunnies Jun 2013 #43

So ... we're changing to a new subject? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #46

Not changing the subject... bunnies Jun 2013 #48

No. Just a perceived threat by you and your ilk. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #52

ok. bunnies Jun 2013 #58

This message brought to you by Monsanto Le Taz Hot Jun 2013 #6

+1000 forestpath Jun 2013 #22

The uncontrolled variable of allowing rodents to consume excessive energy and the complicating .... roseBudd Jun 2013 #91

That higher yield statement is crap. mattclearing Jun 2013 #11

Your link references Seralini's fraudulent "study" roseBudd Jun 2013 #26

Seralini's study was spot-on correct Berlum Jun 2013 #41

That is false roseBudd Jun 2013 #54

Right back atcha. Zoeisright Jun 2013 #70

Yet you point to no research that backs Seralini.... roseBudd Jun 2013 #93

Thanks for this. mattclearing Jun 2013 #86

Seralini also allowed the Sprague-Dawley rats to free feed roseBudd Jun 2013 #103

It's not easy being green Generic Other Jun 2013 #17

I use Roundup on the stumps of invasive European Buckthorn, Japanese Honeysuckle... roseBudd Jun 2013 #29

You are not making me eat your poison asshole mulberries! Generic Other Jun 2013 #42

No one is eating that asshole mulberry tree that tried to grow where it does not belong. roseBudd Jun 2013 #55

That's why I don't care if you use it Generic Other Jun 2013 #59

I refuse to use Roundup in my yard prole_for_peace Jun 2013 #64

Will not kill honeysuckle, buckthorn or poison ivy roseBudd Jun 2013 #65

From you previous posts I know that you prefer Roundup prole_for_peace Jun 2013 #68

Any bug I hate enough in my yard is usually easy to get with soap Generic Other Jun 2013 #79

You don't know much about human exposure to chemicals, do you? Zoeisright Jun 2013 #73

There were fewer deaths among the male rats that had drunk the highest concentration of Roundup roseBudd Jun 2013 #89

Good luck. You'll need it. Zoeisright Jun 2013 #72

This is the BIG BIG problem with these so-called studies: Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #77

What they fail to report, however, is that the observed effects in many cases overlap with the roseBudd Jun 2013 #94

Doesn't matter if GMOs are still causing illness and death in living things siligut Jun 2013 #20

Show me the science to back up that claim roseBudd Jun 2013 #30

Let the marketplace decide Generic Other Jun 2013 #45

Guess someone poisoned the crickets too cause I'd be hearing them now otherwise... Generic Other Jun 2013 #60

Apologies to your significant other... bunnies Jun 2013 #88

farmers are committing suicide wisechoice Jun 2013 #62

Here you go: Zoeisright Jun 2013 #74

Arguing science on these threads is a total waste of time. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #78

No there is a big difference Generic Other Jun 2013 #80

Are not organic foods non-GMO? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #81

I come from a hundred generations of rice farmers Generic Other Jun 2013 #82

exactly. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #85

This disturbs me because climzate change is real, GM crops = cancer is not roseBudd Jun 2013 #95

"There is an opportunity cost, and a credibility issue." +1 Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #96

it frustates me that you hang on to one study wisechoice Jun 2013 #98

How is advocating any form of conventional mono-cropping congruent with climate concern? NoOneMan Jun 2013 #100

Gee, I feel better already. forestpath Jun 2013 #23

Are you a scientist? roseBudd Jun 2013 #33

I don't have to be a scientist to know that Monsanto is toxic to the planet. forestpath Jun 2013 #35

So climate scientists good, agriculture scientists trying to kill the planet roseBudd Jun 2013 #56

ROFL - you have the gall to bring up BIAS as you desperately pimp Monsanto? forestpath Jun 2013 #83

Rejecting research that is flawed is intellectual honesty. Calling someone a pimp is ad hominem roseBudd Jun 2013 #87

Tell it to Japan. forestpath Jun 2013 #99

Those silly Greens just don't get it NightWatcher Jun 2013 #31

Should people starve to death? Or should agriculture science mitigate. roseBudd Jun 2013 #34

They are not using Frankenfoods for good NightWatcher Jun 2013 #38

You really think all that corn and soybeans are feeding people? bunnies Jun 2013 #44

This is the age of full-bellies NoOneMan Jun 2013 #50

So, we can die from climate change jazzimov Jun 2013 #36

What cancer. Seralini's research does not back up that claim roseBudd Jun 2013 #51

Wow. I read an anti solar power thread, and now a pro Monsato thread. gollygee Jun 2013 #37

Not pro Monsanto to insist on scientific rigor not Seralini's fear mongering roseBudd Jun 2013 #57

LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES Brainstormy Jun 2013 #39

thank you wisechoice Jun 2013 #63

yeah, and if you killed a bunch of people there would be less co2 in the air. eom ellenfl Jun 2013 #47

Salmonella and E. Coli have killed people, not GM corn. Sprague-Dawley rats develop tumors roseBudd Jun 2013 #67

Wow. Another lie! Zoeisright Jun 2013 #75

how do you know gm corn hasn't killed anyone? i know of some indian farmers it has killed. eom ellenfl Jun 2013 #76

A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health prole_for_peace Jun 2013 #66

Wow, is that ever wrong. Zoeisright Jun 2013 #69

Monsanto Weedkiller and GM maize implicated in new cancer study prole_for_peace Jun 2013 #71

That is the discredited Seralini study using Sprague-Dawley rats roseBudd Jun 2013 #102

Yeah, and DDT is good for you too. Apophis Jun 2013 #84

So does dying. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #90

Color me skeptical, but....I'm not sure I can buy this. n/t AverageJoe90 Jun 2013 #101