"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:38:37 -0700 (PDT), Bryan
> > wrote:
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>> I choose D. The reason is that GMO plants pollinate non-GMO plants,
>> and then folks who want to raise crops from their own seeds are
>> forbidden to do so, even though they never set out to have their
>> plants pollinated by GMOs. It's like if your next door neighbor had a
>> goat, and the goat wandered over into your yard and shit there, then
>> your neighbor tells you that you can't grow anything in your yard
>> because the goat shit is such good fertilizer...
>>
>> The way that patent laws are being applied is insane.
>
> Absolutely agree as far as that. It's up to them to keep their
> pollens under control, not the farmer down wind. It's a Pandora's Box
> with cross bred wind driven pollens. You're just making super weeds
> and that means people/agribusiness will be demanding even stronger
> weed killers than RoundUp, which is what most of these GMOs have been
> bred to resist.
>

If a crop is bred to be RoundUp resistant then the farmers can spray their
RoundUp over the whole field and kill the weeds with no resistance. The
farmer then harvests his crop and sells it to us the consumer covered in
RoundUp. Glyphosate is not something I would willingly drink nor would I eat
it on or absorbed in to a crop.

Mike
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