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In reply to the discussion: You don't need GMOs to be labeled [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)17. pre-treated seed includes GMO seed.
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/catching-my-reading-ahead-pesticide-industry-confab
90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide
As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder. Watch this NBC News report from last week linking bee kills in Minnesota to Bayer's highly profitable product.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/05/16/what-do-gmo-seeds-have-do-bee-die-offs-corn-belt
What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt?
Corn is far from the only crop treated by neonicotinoids, but it is the largest use of arable land in North America, and honey bees rely on corn as a major protein source. At least 94 percent of the 92 million acres of corn planted across the U.S. this year will have been treated with either clothianidin or thiamethoxam (another neonicotinoid).
GE corn & neonicotinoid seed treatments go hand-in-hand
Over the last 15 years, U.S. corn cultivation has gone from a crop requiring little-to-no insecticides and negligible amounts of fungicides, to a crop where the average acre is grown from seeds treated or genetically engineered to express three different insecticides (as well as a fungicide or two) before being sprayed prophylactically with RoundUp (an herbicide) and a new class of fungicides that farmers didn't know they "needed" before the mid-2000s.
90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide
As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder. Watch this NBC News report from last week linking bee kills in Minnesota to Bayer's highly profitable product.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/05/16/what-do-gmo-seeds-have-do-bee-die-offs-corn-belt
What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt?
Corn is far from the only crop treated by neonicotinoids, but it is the largest use of arable land in North America, and honey bees rely on corn as a major protein source. At least 94 percent of the 92 million acres of corn planted across the U.S. this year will have been treated with either clothianidin or thiamethoxam (another neonicotinoid).
GE corn & neonicotinoid seed treatments go hand-in-hand
Over the last 15 years, U.S. corn cultivation has gone from a crop requiring little-to-no insecticides and negligible amounts of fungicides, to a crop where the average acre is grown from seeds treated or genetically engineered to express three different insecticides (as well as a fungicide or two) before being sprayed prophylactically with RoundUp (an herbicide) and a new class of fungicides that farmers didn't know they "needed" before the mid-2000s.
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My point is that you didn't consider what the peer review process is; you made
petronius
Mar 2016
#60
your study is an analysis of other studies that did not include pre-treated seed.
magical thyme
Mar 2016
#12
The field corn see we planted on the farm in the 1980's was pre-treated with pesticide
NickB79
Mar 2016
#57
Yes, I noticed the lack of documentation. And you cannot document your claim because it is untrue.
Buzz Clik
Mar 2016
#49
Shit research published by a shitty pay-to-play journal citing other shit research
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#15
Yeah. That meme is devoid of any content that has an association with reality.
Buzz Clik
Mar 2016
#26
and your claims are as devoid of content and sourcing as usual. no big surprise there. nt
magical thyme
Mar 2016
#34
Okay, Ace. Step up to the plate: What is this guy spraying? What is the crop?
Buzz Clik
Mar 2016
#51
Not all in the scientific realm agrees with you. Also, you cannot simply dismiss their credentials.
Rex
Mar 2016
#42
And that is a huge part of this problem imo. We live in a plutocracy. Companies control
Rex
Mar 2016
#52
I just found out that my Kikkoman Soy sauce is made from GMO Soybeans
nationalize the fed
Mar 2016
#44
I think you've got me confused for someone else. Or you've misinterpreted what I'd said.
Lancero
Mar 2016
#71
Since GMO is the standard, wouldn't non-GMO products just print 'Non-GMO' on their items?
ohnoyoudidnt
Mar 2016
#63
If gmos are so safe why are the gmo companies spending so much energy and money to defeat
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#75
Probably for the same reason the organic industry would fight a "fertilized with cow shit" label
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#76