maybe its growing all over America ? Im Anti GMO Its a Pesticide not a food productExplain how it could have gotten there any other way? He wasn't even raising wheat. Sort of like the police dept that found pot growing in flowerbed in front of the station.
Could you tell the difference between GMO wheat and Non GMO Wheat ? Can the average farmer ? Yea think with a open mindWasn't the wheat an experimental strain? So access to it would be limited and controlled presumably.
I can see activists deliberately doing something dishonest for the 'greater cause', but I can also see Monsanto trying to limit their culpability by suggesting this scenario. Was there a specific reason to claim this?
"Maybe this is growing all over America?" Obviously if it was growing all America it would have been noticed, the same way this small incident has been. Think.
The wheat in question doesn't have a pesticide trait, it has a resistance to herbicide (round-up) trait.maybe its growing all over America ? Im Anti GMO Its a Pesticide not a food product
hmm ?in 1999 scientists in thailand claimed they discovered glyphosate-resistant wheat in a grain shipment from the pacific northwest of the united states, even though transgenic wheat had never been approved for sale and was only ever grown in test plots. No one could explain how the transgenic wheat got into the food suppl
Source?hmm ?
A laboratory study published in 1992 indicated that glyphosate formulations could harm earthworms[ and beneficial insects.The wheat in question doesn't have a pesticide trait, it has a resistance to herbicide (round-up) trait.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/29/genetically-modified-wheat/2370533/I understand that the farmer sprayed his crop with Roundup and the wheat survived it. The wheat was a weed to him.
Glyphosate is not just used on gm crops, it is used on most conventional farms too. Has been for a long time. Can you post something more relevant and not 14 to 20 years old? If gm wheat was out there then it would have been found a long time ago. There are chances for seed to get mixed and accidentally put out, that is why Monsanto didn't rule that out.A laboratory study published in 1992 indicated that glyphosate formulations could harm earthworms[ and beneficial insects.
Wasn't the wheat an experimental strain? So access to it would be limited and controlled presumably.
I can see activists deliberately doing something dishonest for the 'greater cause', but I can also see Monsanto trying to limit their culpability by suggesting this scenario. Was there a specific reason to claim this?
"Maybe this is growing all over America?" Obviously if it was growing all America it would have been noticed, the same way this small incident has been. Think.
A laboratory study published in 1992 indicated that glyphosate formulations could harm earthworms[ and beneficial insects.
Im Anti GMO Its a Pesticide not a food product
A laboratory study published in 1992 indicated that glyphosate formulations could harm earthworms[ and beneficial insects.
because antigmo/enviromentalist activists have never trampled fields, killed animals, destroyed decades of devoted work, started fires, endangered humans, spread infectious disease, made, purchased, and set off bombs, used persistent organic pollutants to kill GM test fields, sprayed automotive paint on swaths of crops, used pesticides at levels hundreds of times over proper application levels to kill crops, held non combatant workers hostage, or anything else remotely along the lines of intentionally planting a tiny amount of something just to point their finger and scream...
So far as im concerned the ilk who participate in that sort of stuff are more than apt for this kind of thing. Just a month or so ago a group took hostage a testing lab and demanded the release of hundreds of mice infected with pandemic class pathogens and thousands of mice that would die if taken off their care regimen.. to free them... they are not the type to think out their actions....
Protip: after putting on hazmat suits and spraying automotive paint all over crops, take pictures, then post them around the internet and be sure to say "Look! If GMO is safe why is monsanto wearing suits while working around them?" -greenpeace
^^not a joke
soulfly, thanks for the link, but you know anyone rejecting GE will say the monsanto only test proves its a conspiracy!
Im not gunna get into this too deep here. ive dipped off the site as of late so i could deal with this issue(GE) and this issue alone elsewhere so im rather burnt by now however id like to provide you the following link to help a little bit. there's tons of usefull bits in there as ive tried to save recurring themes ;] enjoy the tree
http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-fa=80...8469&N-p=77671537&N-s=1_8099412&N-f=1_8099412
There is a guy on Bloomberg that asked the common question. "If GM products are safe, why is there an objection to labeling them?"
I keep asking him if he would buy apple juice, if it had a label " Contains Malic acid" He has attacked me and refuses to answer the question
I will admit it not my field so why would I know . Im not like some on here that think they are an expert on everythingYou do not understand the difference between herbicide resistence and pesticide production?
Maybe you can repeat what Mick edited ? Or you can send me a private message and repeat you insult ? Im curious why Im always get banned for 24 hrs while others just have their comments edited ? Monsanto treats farmers like shit . I dont trust them at all along with many other Americans .Joe, you seem to have a basic misunderstanding of the issue.
Even if the herbicide glyphosate could harm some insects, the glyphosate resistant wheat would not have potential as a pesticide. Glyphosate resistance in a plant does not confer the plant with an ability to produce glyphosate, it only confers resistance in the plant against the herbicide glyphosate.
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If Monsanto treats its customers like shit then why do they keep purchasing from them?Maybe you can repeat what Mick edited ? Or you can send me a private message and repeat you insult ? Im curious why Im always get banned for 24 hrs while others just have their comments edited ? Monsanto treats farmers like shit . I dont trust them at all along with many other Americans .