When will people learn we have been genetically modifying crops for millennia
we make hybrid strains from a sativa land race grown near the equator and breed it with indica grown lets say 60 degrees N latitude
producing a hybrid strain what have we just done here ??? something that would never of pollinated in a million years oh wait maybe in 5oo million years when the tectonic plates might collide lol seriously you genetically modified to species that would of never met although they may have come at one time from the same region they evolved
Now really one of the biggest epidemics in usa is obesity but now your advocates of eating healthy ???
whats shocking is whats the big deal seriously I mean so easy to point a finger at someone and say your bad ..
either don't eat GMO or do eat it again your going to die anyways sooner or later
Think about it since the introduction of GMO and USA fertility rate being up there are we seeing Zombie mutant off spring ?? Actually its amazing your living longer then your ancestors ever did but GMO are bad
Your right people bikering over nothing And who starting what something i posted weeks ago to have some other member come in an try to start something ??? you act like a 12 year old what the hell kind of a post is that
Oh wait i know cause a well known member KEN got banned in here
So this clown figures he is going to crank my gears and try to get me banned
who is the kid here ??
Everyone is so concerned about monsanto and GMO yet afraid to look in the mirror lets see here growers that drain to waste thats all good right ??? that phos being poured down the drain but put all the blame on cattle farmers you know the ones putting the beef on the table for you ..
Or how about you best be selling your car you know your contributing to global warming fucking walk to work lol where does it end
maybe people should start pointing the fingers at them selfs cause were all just fucking angels now aren't we .
Business is business you be shocked at who owns who but now its monsanto and
Gavita and your all about boycott well then don't buy
Gavita go buy Mars LED and be on your way lol since when has there been a gun to your head on buying anything
Look at the bright side maybe Monsanto will open up a shop close to you and you can finally get a job ..
The moral of the story is who Cares Gavitas kick ass its your loss and there are tons of corporations that own other companies
Sad truth is most people would be shocked who owns who when a company is incorporated you can have like 10 companies under that company but different names HERE is good one FUTURE SHOP still remains the name yet BEST BUY OWNS THEM
same thing applies with food manufacturing companies but some how it gets leaked out possibly from top end employees that get laid off or fired ,,
Remember back when you watched The Matrix for the first time and ran down to the store to buy sunglasses and a trench coat? There were so many sunglass brands to choose from: Oakley, Ray-Ban, Revo, Vogue, DKNY, and if you must have only the best, $500 designer glasses from Prada and BVLGARI (which has that V-instead-of-a-U thing, so you know it's classy like ancient Rome). All sunglasses are made by luxottica
Well, at least you get to pick between stores, right? If the people at the LensCrafters are being dicks while selling you different glasses all made by Luxottica, you can show them what you think of that by taking your business across the mall to the Pearle Vision. Or maybe the Sears or Target optical departments. Except that they are also all owned by Luxottica. Just for the sake of argument let's say that you're not a squinty-eyed nerd, so you pass by the prescription shops and go right to the Sunglass Hut. You guessed it. Luxottica.
Like an omnipresent starchy deity, corn is everywhere. Savvy consumers know that it doesn't just stop at corn on the cob. Word has gotten out that corn syrup turns up in almost every candy and soda, and is as addictive as crack. But how about Febreze? Hand sanitizers? Ethanol car fuel? That's all corn, too. Making rubber tires? You'll need corn starch. Spark plugs? Corn. Drywall? Corn. You can't build a car or a house without corn.
Whoever controls the corn controls ... maybe not the universe, but a lot of money. And the king of American corn is Monsanto, a biotech company. Unlike evil movie biotech companies -- with their dubious business models of inventing mutants or viruses that kill everyone -- Monsanto built their empire on a pretty boring one two punch: weed killer and seeds.
The weed killer, Roundup, is the biggest selling herbicide in the world. The seeds are genetically engineered corn seeds that are immune to Roundup. If you want to grow corn and kill weeds that hurt the corn, Monsanto has the best product on the market by a mile. That's why 80 percent of all corn planted in the U.S. goes into the ground with Monsanto's trademark on it.
But plants will be plants, and make more seeds, so the farmers don't have to keep buying Monsanto seeds year after year, right? Don't be silly. Monsanto's not going to let their money run away like that. Their first plan was to incorporate something called a "Terminator" (otherwise known as the "let's just stop pretending we're not evil") gene that automatically sterilizes the plant so it can't make any more seeds. Then farmers have to buy new seeds every time they plant, just like nature intended.
People objected to this quite a bit for some reason, forcing Monsanto to back down and instead just make farmers sign a contract saying that they won't use the seeds the plants make ... or else. So instead of screwing farmers with a terminatorgene, they're just asking the farmers to agree to screw themselves.
So the next time you're deciding between a Coke or a Pepsi (or between a Firestone or a Goodyear), know that whichever way you go, you're buying Monsanto. You're welcome!
