On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 10:13:27 AM UTC-5, Mayayana wrote:
| The author seems to be partially misinformed. She starts
| by saying the problem is not GMO crops but then goes
| on to say the problem is Roundup herbicide. Roundup is
| patented by Monsanto, which also has a patent on their
| GMO grains designed to tolerate high levels of Roundup.
| It's a marketing dream: They sell the poison and they
| also sell the patented, GMO seed that can tolerate it.
|
|
| Did you actually read the article ? And a couple more related articles ?
| The wheat is not GMO , nor are they using the glyphosate for weed control
.
| They're using it to kill the wheat in a manner that increases the yield
| while making it all ripen within a narrower window - which also maximizes
| yield . The problem is that the not-quite-ripe wheat berries absorb some
of
| that glyphosate as they ripen .
It is an interesting story, if true. The author's links
leave something to be desired, though she does seem
to be right that the practice is common.
http://www.hgca.com/media/185527/is0...and-barley.pdf
But she's making it sound like GMO is not the problem.
Even if wheat were not being sprayed with Roundup,
corn, soy and other crops are. And those are mostly GMO,
Roundup Ready varieties, tolerant of large amounts of
Roundup.
While glyphosate in wheat, at least in this context, is
not a GMO issue, glyphosate is becoming systemic in the
food supply. The man in the restaurant allegedly getting
indigestion from rolls was likely eating glyphosate in other
dishes at that restaurant, as well as at home, from RR
grains, unless he's eating nearly all organic grain.
See, this is how you go so badly astray. Some guy gets indigestion
from eating in a restaturant and immediately it's the alleged
glyphosate in the rolls. Never mind that we don't know his
medical history, what else he eats/drinks, if there is even glyphosate
in the rolls. No, it's gotta be them there rolls.
So I'm not trying to downplay the issue of glyphosate.
I'm just trying to widen the topic. Glyphosate is just one
of many toxic chemicals being used. (I was once told
there are 12 different chemicals sprayed on apples, and
that was 40 years ago. The arborist running the orchard
who told me this also said he worked fulltime spraying
pesticide during the growing season, only stopping for
a short period so that the bees could pollinate. There
was even a special chemical they sprayed to make the
apples stay on the trees if the pickers weren't keeping up.
Have you ever noticed fuzz, like asbestos fuzz, around
the stem of an apple? That's the keep-'em-on-the-tree
chemical.)
GMO is a looming issue that threatens to intensify the
degradation of the food supply. If all GMO is labeled that
would be good. But of course it won't stop the extreme
use of toxic chemicals. In the meantime, organic is the only
truly regulated food. But even the organic law could be
chipped away. I'm still surprised and pleased that such an
honest law ever got passed in the first place.
I'll bet a good percentage of food marked organic, isn't.
There is a HUGE profit incentive there. Put some regular
vegetables in a truck, ship them around to a couple warehouses,
and voila! out comes organic food for hippies at 3X the price.
Marc Rich, the largest tax cheat in US history that fled,
was never brought to justice in any way, that Clinton
pardoned on his last day in office, he did essentially the
same thing. He took old oil which was subject to Carter's
windfall profit's tax, pumped it through a pipeline or two,
and when it came out it was new oil, which was not subject
to the tax. Rich's ex-wife just happened to finanace Clinton's
library and donate millions to the Democratic Party too, but
of course there was no connection.....