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Napanee, Ontario | "If you had a real case, people would take you seriously. There is only hearsay, book sales, $$$ lecture tours, and the like."
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"They worked well, but in time we found problems with them. As we got better at finding the problems. Perhaps that will happen with some gmo traits? Perhaps we will create a problem in the future with it. Better minds than mine will have to study and sort that out."
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Yea, you're right, nothing is wrong, don't worry about a thing and let someone elese do the thinking for you. You just keep doing what you're doing until someone else tells you to do differnet then Paul. If that works for you, your entitled by every right. Me, I don't like to wait for people to tell me to do something. I like to be a little more proactive. I see the writing on the wall, and the industry is signalling it. More and more people are starting to give a s't how food is brought to their plate these days. We have people wanting to pay us $6 cut & wrapped for ground beef up here, and $10+ for choice cuts that is fed non-gmo, non-sprayed feed. More and more people don't want it Paul. We'll be doing about three times the number of these private slaughter delas this year than last, and only a few years ago we didn't do any.
Go into your closest city and ask 50 people: if given a choice, would they eat GMO or non-GMO food? I wonder what the anser would be... you? -you will wait for a peer reviewed study to tell you the answer that I already know.
Maybe you're right - maybe some of these studies are peope with an agenda, people with books to sell, not peer reviewed yet ect.. But it's not all BS. You and others still have yet to tell me that the Argentianins inflicted with birth defects at the rate 100x their national average are all just running a scam to sue Monsanto. Or explain why the Surpreme court awarded no dmanges to Big M in the Percy Schmiser case. Or explain why so many of their products like DDT, PCB's, Dioxin, BST Hormone have been banned in many countries around the world. Or explain why the US congress feels the need to sign into law the first ever decree that would put a person (corproate or human) above the reach of the federal courts.
You see Paul, where theres smoke, there's usually fire. And there has been a whole heck of a lot of smoke swirling around Big M for years, and some people would say that the fire is climbing the walls and reaching out the windows today. But I guess everyone is just like me, on some big smear campaign looking to get famous posting a few thoughts on a message board, trying to change some minds and wake people up to whats going on in the world around them.
"Certainly companies look to the bottom line, that is the responsibility they are entrusted with."
Wrong. They also have a responsibilty to provide safe products to the people that use them. Regardless of whether or not the FDA has reviewed the products. Which they havn't - they allow Monsanto to prodive their own assurance, further supporting that Big M is liable.
"The govt is responsible for regulating and keeping things safe".
They arn't. Everyone is resonsible for each other's safety in the legal world. If you are negligent in offering an inherently dangerous product, you have to pay the price. And for most of us, the price for Monsanto is dissolution and director's liability suits.
"so you will puff up and sputter how I just don't understand, and how much info you have, and how evil Monsanto is."
No, i think you do understand, you've just made your choice to believe what you want to believe. Like I choose to believe what i want to beileve, Hey, I'm no expert, but I've seen anough crooks in this world to be able to call a duck a duck when i see one.
I'm just trying to make money, like any other farmer on here, that's my agenda. And to do that, i need to understand the players in the market i particiapate in, and the consumer sentiment of the market i'm selling into. I was hoping that others might look more into the shining history of the company they end up doing thousands of dollars in business with every year.
Without people rallying, petitioning, or bothering to give a s't about things that are wrong in the world around them, who is ever going to step up to the plate and doing something about it? I guess we should just let companies police themselves, like Big M is doing, and wait for someone else to tell us when it's time to change then? You go ahead and do that then Paul, and leave the social reforms to people who actually give a s't then.
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