Jeffrey Smith admits GMO labeling was never his goal

[TheBlackAdder]

33. How's this, as a former farmer and science buff....

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RoundUp Ready 2 crops are already ineffective, since many of the weeds have become tolerant to it. This requires more and more applications and locks the farmers into a paradigm that is near unsustainable for them. With the increases in temperatures, there will be more virulent strains of weeds that will overcome the current applications, so this methodology is deeply flawed.

From a biosciences part, the human body has been raised to eat local foods, so folks raised for a ten millennia on British isle foods differ from folks who have eaten North American foods for 16,000 years. To Brits and most all Europeaners, corn is quasi-toxic since it is not an indigenous food, introduced only 400 years ago.

When you alter the genetic composition of crops, especially when animal strains are embedded in plant crops, it creates foods that are unknown to the human body. While consumable, like HFCS, there are issues with the processing of them within the body that might take many decades to surface. Unfortunately, most of the the university research labs and corporate biological labs in the US are partly funded by BigAg and BigPhRMA, so their studies always seem to create either confusion, like FOX News does to world events, or supports the corporations almost 100% of the time. Now, as a betting person who sees so many pharmaceuticals fail when rushed into service, this seems to contrast the peer science results from the many studies that preceded their approval.

People who say that RoundUp is a safer herbicide than others on the market are just buying into this corporate branding.

The slow, and sometimes suspicious cross pollination that occurs on farms slowly decreases the variety of plants, which exposes the food crops to a catastrophic event, if some blight were to target specific GMO crops. Biodiversity has always been the key to survival of species. What's worse is that Pioneer is going around to over 100 countries and working out free seed programs, especially targeting poor countries. The people kill off their legacy crops and then seed their fields with the hybrids that require repurchasing each cycle, since the farmer then loses the ability to use 10% of their seed crop to replant. This effectively creates a poverty condition for developing countries, as the US and EU floods their markets with crops 1/4th the price of local farmers to put them out of business and monopolize the industry... all while World Bank and the UN claims to support and help grow these regions.

So, I have an issue with industrial manipulation of both seed crops, specialized herbicides, and subsidized food for developing worlds...

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