Letters to the Editor
Chris Sinnard
Published Letters: 1259 Editor's Choice: 7
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According to Jeffery Smith, the solution is for people to become more like animals
[Read the article: Should biotech piggy go to market?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It has been well documented that animals are smart enough not to eat this GM shit, it's too bad humans aren't. They know something we don't.
http://www.wanttoknow.info/deception10pg
Between the Chapters: The Wisdom of Animals
Mice avoid eating GM foods when they have the chance, as do rats, cows, pigs, geese, elk, squirrels, and others. What do these animals know that we don’t? At the end of each chapter is a one-page story describing how farmers, students, and scientists discovered that animals refuse to eat the same GM foods that we consume everyday.
Excerpt:
The Washington Post reported that laboratory mice, usually happy to munch on tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified FlavrSavr tomato. Scientist Roger Salquist said of his tomato, “I gotta tell you, you can be Chef Boyardee and mice are still not going to like them.” [8] The mice were eventually force fed the tomato through gastric tubes and stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further tests.
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Animals-Say-No-GMOs.htm
Animals say 'NO' to GMOs
When The Corn Hits The Fan
“After four months of retrieving anecdotes from Kansas to Wisconsin, I think its high time to sample the producer community more thoroughly to see how many stories are out there. About the hogs that wouldn’t eat the ration when the GMO crops were included. About the farmer who said “Well, if you want your cattle to go off their feed, just switch them out to a GMO silage.” About the farmer who said that his cattle broke through an old fence and ate down the non-GMO hybrids but wouldn’t touch the Round-up ready corn, and as a matter of fact “They had to walk through the GMOs to get to the Pioneer 3477 on the other side.” About the cattleman who saw the weight-gain of his cattle fall off when he switched over to GMO sources. About the organic farmer with a terrible deer problem on his soybeans, and when he drives out at night there are forty of them mowing down his tofu beans while across the road there isn’t one doe eating on the Round-up Readies. About the raccoons romping by the dozen in the organic corn, while down the road there isn’t one ear that’s been touched in the Bt fields. Even the mice will move on down the line if given an alternative to these “crops”. What is it that they know instinctively that most of us ignore?”
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AAGMF.php
During the first phase of the experiment (days 0-18), the test group eating GM maize consumed 9 gm more than the control group; during the second phase (18-32 days), consumption had dropped to 7 gm less; and in the final phase (days 32-42) consumption by the test group had fallen to 63 gm less than that of the control group. Again, the error bars are much greater for the test group and increase with time.
Average body weights and feed intakes of the chickens do not vary significantly, as concluded in the study. Nevertheless, the much larger error bars for both these quantities give concern that the weight gains and the feeding patterns were erratic in the treated group, indicating that at least some of the chickens were not thriving on the glufosinate-resistant maize.
“The NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology) have notified MAFF of damage to a national list trial of GM forage maize taking place in Somerset. The damage was caused by cattle straying onto the site in October. There is no evidence that the cattle ate any of the maize.
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"will the regulars here do likewise?"
[Read the article: What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, True Believerism reins supreme. Expect more apologies for the empire, but with the word "Happy Democratic Humanitarian Fun Mission" substituted for the more direct and belligerent warmongering of the Neoconservatives.
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New movie coming out explains all of this
[Read the article: Should biotech piggy go to market?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a new movie coming out called 10,000 B.C., perhaps you've heard of it?
There is a scene where prehistoric men are shown splicing genes from unrelated plants and animals in a Flinstones-Style Biolab, creating their very own Frankenfoods and Chimeras! It even shows them splicing puppy genes with genes from baby elephants to make mammoths.
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New Coke was not a scam....
[Read the article: Should biotech piggy go to market?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember New Coke? It was a scam.
No. It is much simpler than a High Fructose Corn Syrup conspiracy. It was bad marketing research. It is a case study about improper market segmentation.
But speaking of HFCS, it's in everything, even Twizzlers and cheese dip. Some guy wrote a book about our overconsumption of corn and it being a large % of the American diet. Even the meat we eat is grown on corn now (even though it isn't good for the animals)
The author said that Corn to American's is what Potatoes was to the Irish. If there were a "Corn Famine" we'd be finished.
But think of the bright side, Candy Corn is really made out of corn now!
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Of course you do...
[Read the article: What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like my Wiki editing privileges.
And the CIA thanks you for them. How could you do your job without being able to edit wikipedia?