On Sunday, November 16, 2014 1:32:54 PM UTC-6, wrote:
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 11:20:38 PM UTC-5, Bryan-TGWWW wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:11:49 PM UTC-6, Pico Rico wrote:
> > > "Janet" > wrote in message
> > > t...
> > > > In article >, says...
> > > >>
> > > >> "sf" > wrote in message
> > > >
> > > >> > My biggest objection to GMOs are the RoundUp ready varieties, which
> > > >> > means more and stronger pesticides being used on food crops.
> > > >>
> > > >> I don't think that is "what it means".
> > > >
> > > > She's right. It's the result of using roundup ready crops.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-
> > > > environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
> > > >
> > > > http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...to-superweeds-
> > > > idUSTRE78J3TN20110920
> > > >
> > > > Janet UK.
> > >
> > > no, it is the natural result of using roundup, regardless of roundup ready
> > > crops.
> >
> > True, but far more Roundup is used because of the Roundup ready varieties.
> >
> > Tell you what I don't support, it's Monsanto's argument that it owns genes
> > that have invaded non-GMO crops, and left their genetic information. If
> > Farmer A had a cow, and Farmer B had a patented bull, and his bull jumped
> > the fence and mated with Farmer A's cow, against Farmer A's wishes, Farmer B
> > has no legitimate ownership of the calves born as a result of what was
> > essentially a rape of Farmer A's property. When the worship of Capitalism is
> > allowed to trump the British common law rights of farmers, we begin the slide
> > toward the negative utopia of *The Space Merchants*.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
> >
> > I'd be playing good odds if I bet that the same Conservatives that are
> > tearing pages out of books are keeping *The Space Merchants* out of their
> > school libraries. How Stalinist--how Maoist of them? They are engaging in
> > mass stupidity, and don't see how Capitalism has subortinated everything
> > that Jesus preached in their Bible to a worship of Mammon. I have for years
> > contended that Mammon is not about the personal feelings of selfishness,
> > that thing that we all have, but about elevating greed to the status of a
> > moral good. I paraphrase St. Paul: you cannot follow both Jesus Christ and
> > Ayn Rand.
> >
> > As an Atheist leaning Agnostic, I always fall in line with those those whose
> > hearts belong to the words of Jesus, rather than those who pick and choose
> > passages from the Bible that restrict sexuality, and deny evolution.
> >
> > --Bryan
>
> Yes, we've established that you are completely fascinated with yourself. It's a shame the rest of us don't find you as compelling. Shut. Up. And failing that, at least keep your meanderings on topic.

I'd say about half of the folks here would agree with you, but you are
almost universally thought of as a worthless anonymous coward who only
occasionally posts anything on topic, and then it's just to justify your
continued presence here.

--Bryan