j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Obama deregulates GMO despite supreme court injunction Quote
prole Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I don't mind GMOs as long as they're properly labeled. Oh wait...fuck! Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 SCIENCE SURE IS SCARY!!!!!!!!!11111 Â With scary names! Pasteurization???? That's gotta be bad for you! Quote
prole Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Goddammit, I want to be free to eat anything the agro-corporatists tell me is okay! BREAK THESE CHAINS THAT BIND ME!! Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 SCIENCE SURE IS SCARY!!!!!!!!!11111 Â there is plenty of science showing that GMOs are toxic for flora and fauna. Uncontrolled scientific experiments on you and me are indeed scary. Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 remember when Monsanto pushed PCBs, DDT, Agent orange on us? that wasn't scary science at all... Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Goddammit, I want to be free to eat anything the agro-corporatists tell me is okay! BREAK THESE CHAINS THAT BIND ME!! Â SERVICE GOON! Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 DDT also nearly eradicated malaria. Â Look, I'm not for bringing DDT back, but there was a very compelling humanitarian reason for using it in the first place. It wasn't because Monsanto secretly wanted to poison either the bird or human population. Â Just to be fair. Â And balanced. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Obama is awesome isn't he? What a joke. Â Here comes the goon squad! Quote
prole Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 They didn't want to intentionally poison the entire global food web? That's a relief! Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 DDT also nearly eradicated malaria. Look, I'm not for bringing DDT back, but there was a very compelling humanitarian reason for using it in the first place. It wasn't because Monsanto secretly wanted to poison either the bird or human population.  Just to be fair.  And balanced.  DDT was widely used in agriculture as an insecticide, which caused the evolution of resistance in mosquitoes. Its use in fighting malaria has little to do with the problems that ensued. Quote
prole Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Does that mean Monsanto won't be a candidate for the role of mysterious shadow organization in the next Bond film? Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 GMOs are here to stay, and they're going to more and more widespread - for drug therapies, for fuel and materials production, for food, for oil spill cleanup, for fun. Â Like all technologies, each application has its pros and cons. To claim that all GMOs are bad is like saying steel is bad because you can make guns with it. Â Speaking of bad technologies, The Atom Bomb Movie, narrated by Captain James T himself, is on Netflix on demand. Awesome, newly released nuclear footage - even of the Czar Bomba test. If you're a Big Weapons geek, this movie's for you: lots of techy details. The Able and Baker tests were supposed to have a third brother, Charlie. Cancelled because Baker made such a fucking mess. No worries! They finally did the third, deep water test later - with a much bigger bomb, of course. Â I especially like the aerial footage taken from...wait for it...directly ABOVE the explosion. NICE! Â They really knew how to FUCK SHIT UP back then. Â Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 GMOs are here to stay, and they're going to more and more widespread - for drug therapies, for fuel and materials production, for food, for oil spill cleanup, for fun. Â As long as there is adequate labeling! Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 there is a huge difference between proper applications for technologies (like in a controlled environment) and their uncontrolled widespread use, especially when there are significant unanswered scientific questions. Many claims made about GMOs like greater yields than other methods and lesser use of insecticides have been extensively debunked. Quote
prole Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 GMOs are here to stay, and they're going to more and more widespread - for drug therapies, for fuel and materials production, for food, for oil spill cleanup, for fun. Â As long as there is adequate labeling! Â Literacy is practically taking care of itself! Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Yes, if we could only develop 100% fuck up free new technology in a controlled environment. Â That would be awesome. Â We'll need to develop The Perfect Human first...in an uncontrolled environment, though. Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I mean, WHO only said yesterday there is a possible link between cell phones and cancer despite official bots being certain of the opposite for the last 10 years. oops, too bad fuckers. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 official bots  another one of your made up terms? 'service goon'? Quote
j_b Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 50+ years to do away with asbestos for most applications despite growing documentation of its being bad for people since the early 20th century. But hey, they didn't "mean to" when they denied the evidence for as long as they could. Quote
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