Andrew Weil, his woo, and anti-GMO hysteria...

[TheBlackAdder]

39. As a former farm owner and Food & Water Watch Volunteer...

The quality and safety of our food and water transcends political party lines.

1) Round-up Ready GMO plants mean what? They WILL HAVE ROUNDUP sprayed on them.

Do you really think that when you bathe a plant in something, traces of that something don't leech into the plant?
Don't you remember the old food color & water thing as an elementary kid, making your celery blue or red?
Do you want to eat a derivative of Agent Orange, from the same company that made Agent Orange?

2) These GMO plants are infecting non-GMO fields and the farmers are having lawsuits thrown at them, many with gag orders, that they have to pay a settlement if their fields show signs of the GMO DNA in their crops. THey could have cross-pollinated from neighboring fields.

3) GMO plants are reducing the biodiversity of the plants. We are going from having around 100 types of corn to around a dozen. If there becomes some type of blight that affects GMO crops in the future... and we all know how Mother Nature like to play tricks on things... there will be massive crop failures.

4) GMO crops require the farmers to purchase new every crop cycle and not to take 10% of their seed harvest to replant, only requiring supplemental grain orders. This incurs massive costs onto the farmer especially damaging the smaller independent farmer.

These GMO crop seed patent restrictions and lawsuits are just some of the ways BigAg are using to force out smaller farmers and to seize farms that have been in families for generations.

I'm sure there a bunch of other things I could write, but hopefully, you get the gist of what I'm saying.