On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:54:52 +0800, "Bloke Down The Pub"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:38:37 -0700 (PDT), Bryan
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
>
That's a given.

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