Ban GMO"$ & Promote Organic

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You wrongly assume I was referring to the use of ‘terminator gene’ seeds. That is an incorrect assumption. There is no myth in my statement! However, there is an activist myth in your statement regarding hybrid seeds being the same as GMO seeds.

Hybrid seeds are created by cross-pollinating two genetically different plants of the same species or type. This process has been used by humans for thousands of years.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are created in a laboratory by inserting genes from other plants into a plant’s DNA. This process involves biotechnology, such as forcing the combination of unrelated organisms. GMO “seeds” are used by commercial farmers to produce crops on a larger scale. The only way to get these “seeds” is to purchase them from farm supply company, sign a contract and get a license! GMO’s are patented for the “technology”! You can NOT patent a real seed!

Most importantly, there are additional problems such as the case in Canada. A farmer whose crop got cross-pollinated from a farm growing the GMO corn almost five miles away got sued by Monsanto and won. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Real seeds were here first! The new technology referred to in your post as “seeds” are causing damage to the original, real seeds and crops not the other way around! Monsanto has filed lawsuits against 145 farmers in the US! And charged more than 700 other farmers outside of court! And yes some of those suits were for saving and using the “seeds”. Why would anyone want to defend that? Does that sound like a company that wants to keep the world from starving to you? None of this could ever happen with a real seed.

Again real seeds do not require patents, licenses, contracts or courtrooms! They produce seeds of their own kind, are freely shared among friends and family, can be used by any and everyone with no threats to the health or property of others, without harm to the environment, insects, wildlife, soil, air, water, have been here since the beginning of humanity keeping us alive and involve no outside agency regulations for hobbyists….YET!

I hope I cleared things up for you about what I meant by real seeds! Technology is not a seed! And now you have the evidence to prove farmers are indeed being sued by the company you defend! It is not a “claim”! It is a FACT! I hope I “made it make sense”!

If anyone truly believes there are good morals and ethics behind a multi-billion dollar company suing often innocent farmers out of their life earnings, family farms, livelihood and community food supplies, they have more faith in corporations than I do! This is not someone I want in charge of the seeds that feed my family and the generations to come! You will know them by their fruit!

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This!!! I could not agree more!

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Are you aware this is a German Green Party organization you are repeating? I’ve heard of horseshoe theory but this is ridiculous

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The very popular honeycrisp apple variety was developed at my Alma mater, the University of MN, using traditional breeding methods. It was patented from the start and now its patent is expired. Hybrid plants ARE patented all the time and it doesn’t matter how they were created.

Everything else you claimed are just classic false activist propaganda that has been repeated over years just like every other fairy tale. It’s exhausting to keep having to tell people this

Cross pollination is literally inserting genes from one plant into another plant. The only difference is how it’s physically done.

There are multiple NON-GMO brands of herbicide-resistant wheat that have been traditionally bred to be resistant to a certain herbicide that pairs with it. Ban GMOs and glyphosate and farmers will simply switch to a different hybrid seed/herbicide system that does the same thing.

Traditional breeding simply takes way longer than genetic engineering. But the same results you fearmonger about can be done the traditional way if you are willing to spend way more time and money to get there and don’t mind all the unintended gene changes traditional breeding can create along the way.

No one is prohibited from growing heirloom varieties and non-licensed seeds. Farmers choose licensed seeds bc they grow so reliably for them. Yours is a case of non-farmer activists advocating for a group of people who never asked for your help. It’s a free marketplace. Farmers can grow whatever they want as long as it’s not illegal.

If you’re going to use the Percy Schmeiser case as an example you should actually read the case. It didn’t involve cross pollination at all. He claimed the gmo SEEDS fell off delivery trucks onto his land so he had a right to grow them without paying for them and had no idea they were gmo. In trial it was revealed he lied. When he sprayed roundup on the canola to clear the field, he discovered it was herbicide-resistant gmo seed and stored it to replant the next year to have the benefits of it without paying for it. Thats why he lost the court case

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I see you are well-versed in the organic food industry propaganda. Wish you used your real name on your account here so I knew who I was dealing with bc there are a few people online who have been spreading this nonsense nonstop for years like it’s their main occupation. I’m betting you are one of those who stalk the X accounts I follow of Ag scientists and came here to spam my policy proposals with your nonsense after you saw me tell them to vote on them.

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I believe Mom’s of America got some legislation passed to subsidize organic farming! But the battle for clean food is far from over. Glad you put this here & voting for it.

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Before conventional and GMO farming we only had organic farming, it lead to the destruction of 2/3 of our planet. We have to go beyond organic and that seems to be regenerative holistic agriculture.

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What do you mean by activists and fear-mongering? My mother-in-law died due to glyphosate last year! The levels in her body were off the charts! She died a gruesome and terrible death and so have many others! Our organic real food kills no one and has kept humanity alive and healthy for hundreds of thousands of years! The only fear-mongering is trying to convince others if we keep food in the natural form we will all die of starvation! That is not sound science! Here we are; not because Monsanto saved us, but because food doesn’t need corporations to make it grow!

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@nancybix I agree!
@brad2 Right on with that Brad2! Follow the money!

At some point, we have to see who is conducting these studies and follow the money!

For anyone interested in his “retraction”

  1. Most criticisms of Séralini’s study assume it was a badly designed cancer study. It wasn’t. It was a chronic toxicity study – and a well-designed and well-conducted one.

  2. Séralini’s study is the only long-term study on the commercialized GM maize NK603 and the pesticide (Roundup) it is designed to be grown with. See here: Why is this study important?

  3. Séralini used the same strain of rat (Sprague-Dawley, SD) that Monsanto used in its 90-day studies on GM foods and its long-term studies on glyphosate, the chemical ingredient of Roundup, conducted for regulatory approval.

  4. The SD rat is about as prone to tumours as humans are. As with humans, the SD rat’s tendency to cancer increases with age.

5.Compared with industry tests on GM foods, Séralini’s study analyzed the same number of rats but over a longer period (two years instead of 90 days), measured more effects more often, and was uniquely able to distinguish the effects of the GM food from the pesticide it is grown with.

  1. If we argue that Séralini’s study does not prove that the GM food tested is dangerous, then we must also accept that industry studies on GM foods cannot prove they are safe.

  2. Séralini’s study showed that 90-day tests commonly done on GM foods are not long enough to see long-term effectslike cancer, organ damage, and premature death. The first tumours only appeared 4-7 months into the study.

  3. Séralini’s study showed that industry and regulators are wrong to dismiss toxic effects seen in 90-day studies on GM foods as “not biologically meaningful”. Signs of toxicity found in Monsanto’s 90-day studies were found to develop into organ damage, cancer, and premature death in Séralini’s two-year study.

  4. Long-term tests on GM foods are not required by regulators anywhere in the world.

  5. GM foods have been found to have toxic effects on laboratory and farm animals in a number of studies.

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You played yourself with that ridiculous rant. I don’t have to deal with your nonsense anymore.

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Seralini is a fraud. His bogus studies thrown out years ago. The rats he used are bred to grow tumors naturally after about 45 days no matter what they are exposed to. He purposely extended his study past the appropriate time in order to get the tumors he needed to support his cancer claim. Zero legitimacy

Everything the anti modern Ag people on here try to claim and link to are old tropes and bogus studies that have been debunked repeatedly. I can’t sit here for days fixing all the BS. I just keep hoping the people in charge of regulating these things are better informed than the conspiracy theorists who posted here.

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People love to throw the “conspiracy theory” phrase around. With all the law suits that have been leveled and won by people against Monsanto/Bayer/ IB Farbin, one would think the only conspiracy would be that gmo foods are good for you, or that gmo-glyphosate farming is the only way to save the planet. Main stream media and government agencies that have been captured by Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and the other merry Martha fockers are the ones pushing this agenda. Plus the ones that swallowed the fairytale hook, line and sinker. The truth is finally coming out, hopefully there will be no stopping it. Just hope we live to tell the tale.

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We have also survived for tens or hundreds of thousands of years without automobiles, the internet, steam engines, vaccines, tractors, communication satellites, electricity, indoor plumbing, running water… Should we throw all that away because automobiles kill 40000 Americans each year, vaccines harm a very small percentage of people, electricity electrocutes people and starts fatal fires each year… and so on?
No, we should not.

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@Jovet Thank you for helping me with that great comparison! Every single one of those things is a CHOICE (see Amish community)! None of those things are imposed on anyone without their consent to the possibility of harm! Nor did cars kill all the horses in the world, electricity didn’t make fire cease to exist, running water didn’t stop streams and rain water, etc. GMOs will evidently eradicate heirloom and organic seeds and growing!

GMO contamination and pesticidal drift HAPPENS! When it does, it takes the choice away from those ppl who choose to grow food in that way! We have right to engage in whatever we want unless it harms others!

Many people would like to have the option to preserve heirloom seeds and grow organic food without chemical trespassing! Allowing a product on the market with the potential to eradicate heirloom seeds is insane! What happens if the company that provides their patented technology “seeds” gets cyber attacked, a natural disaster happens, they become a food monopoly and prices skyrocket or everyone finally realizes they have negative health effects? By then the heirloom seed will be GONE due to continuation! That WOULD lead to starvation!

This proposal is the only way heirloom and organic garden remains an option. Maybe they can find a way to allow GMO’s and chemicals for the ones that think they can’t live without them in a way that doesn’t harm others and their property! Until then, it should not be allowed!

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Glyphosate-GMO Environmental Impact

The widespread adoption of glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the concurrent use of glyphosate herbicides have raised concerns about long-term environmental implications. Some potential issues include:

  • Soil Contamination: Glyphosate can persist in soil for extended periods, potentially affecting soil microbiota and nutrient cycling. This may lead to reduced soil fertility and altered ecosystem processes.
  • Water Pollution: Glyphosate has been detected in surface and groundwater, posing risks to aquatic ecosystems and potentially contaminating drinking water sources.
  • Biodiversity Impacts: The dominance of glyphosate-tolerant crops may lead to reduced genetic diversity in crop populations, making them more vulnerable to disease and pests. This could have long-term consequences for food security and ecosystem resilience.
  • Weed Evolution: The overuse of glyphosate may accelerate the evolution of “superweeds” resistant to the herbicide, requiring more toxic or persistent herbicides, and potentially leading to a vicious cycle.
  • Ecological Disruptions: The widespread use of glyphosate-tolerant crops and herbicides may disrupt ecosystem processes, such as pollination, decomposition, and nutrient cycling, with potential cascading effects on ecosystem services.
  • Long-term Toxicity: Glyphosate has been linked to endocrine disruption, cancer, and other health risks in humans and animals. The long-term environmental consequences of widespread glyphosate use are still unknown and warrant further research.
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round up washes into the soil and is then picked up by our grains, corn, veggies. it must be banned.

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Europe has banned GMO’s. God made our food, why are we changing it? It has been proven that Organic food grown correctly is more sustainable than our chemical grown GMO’s. GMO’s is causing disease and sickness which in turn is making the Big Pharma Rich. Let’s end this madness and make it a crime to give us GMO’s that cause health issues!

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+1 to limits or warnings for copper. Copper sulfate is portrayed as a “safe” organic pesticide. In reality, copper in foods and cosmetics should have a limit set just like heavy metals. Foods and beverages produced with copper sulfate at any stage of the supply chain should carry a warning for males (women can get rid of the excess). In mercury-compromised people, the body may have a reduced capacity to process copper. This can lead to a catastrophic wasting of vitamin B6 and zinc, eventually leading to low GABA and diseases the medical profession has named “Pyroluria” and “Psychosis”. That’s been proven clinically by Pfeiffer. A rumor speculates that copper sulfate was used to turn cheap absinthe green, and that the hallucinations and psychosis associated with absinthe were in fact extreme copper poisoning.

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The example you use of the lab mice was proven to be completely incorrect. That experiment was led by a biased french researcher and proven wrong by other scientists. There has been not one ounce of evidence proving GMO to be unhealthy for consumption. If anything, they will improve health in the future by reducing the need for pesticides.

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There is roundup DNA “injected” into the seeds, and that is why they were able to place a patent on the seeds. That is also why the seeds are resistant to Roundup.