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  1. blank Funk Obumer says:

    I don’t think this article will surprise anyone who is awake.

  2. blank Sick of it All says:

    At least 10 yrs ago I attended a lecture on Round Up by a prof at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). The details are sketchy now, but as I recall, she had researched the use of Round Up on family gardens in Mexico. Some gardens were treated, but others, in a separate area were not. In the end she observed the same birth defects in children who ate from the treated gardens as has been observed in some of the world’s frog populations damaged by pesticide runoff. In the village where the children ate from the Round Up sprayed garden, little boys were born with damaged genitalia, some with micro penis, some with no penis at all. The horrifying truth about this product has been know for a very long time.

    1. blank JF_queeny says:

      Why would you spray a broad spectrum herbicide on a garden?

  3. blank Funk Obumer says:

    In english gematria monsanto is 666

  4. blank JOHN BISCIT says:

    Increased Pesticides

    Monsanto-Mahyco’s primary promise was that Bt cotton would reduce the amount of chemicals needed to control pests. Over the past 10 years, however, government data show that pesticide
    usage has stayed the same or increased across the cotton belt. This is due to two factors: Insects have developed resistance to Bt cotton: The cotton bollworm, Bt’s target pest, developed resistance to the Cry toxin produced by Bt cotton, pushing farmers to use more pesticides to control the pest. To
    combat this problem, in 2006, Monsanto released a second generation of Bt cotton called Bollgard-II, which has two Bt genes instead of the original single gene in Bollgard-I. Secondary pests are becoming a problem: Because of the initial reduction in bollworm populations in Bt cotton fields, pests that did not previously pose a significant threat to cotton crops, such as mealy bug, aphids and thrips, have become more prevalent.[xiii] Farmers are now using highly toxic pesticides to manage these new pest problems.

    Increased Costs
    Bt seed, which farmers have to buy from seed companies every year, is anywhere from 3 to 8 times more expensive than conventional hybrid seed, and several times more costly than the local seed farmers could buy in the market two decades ago. The seeds can cost anywhere between 700
    ($13) to 2,000 rupees ($38) per packet. Cotton farmers in India are also spending significantly more on pesticides and other farm inputs. In 2002, farmers spent Rs 5.97-billionon pesticides and in 2010 this number rose to Rs 8.80-billion as farmers tried to combat pest resistance and the emergence of secondary pests. Bt cotton also requires higher levels of irrigation and fertilizer to yield well, further
    pushing up farmers’ costs.

    1. blank JoeFarmer says:

      You’re as full of it as your Gish gallops.

      A couple of days ago, you pretended to be the coy scientist, saying (and I’m paraphrasing) that if Monsanto ever found out you worked in a lab, you’d never get a lab job again.

      I’m calling BS. You’ve never worked in a lab, except maybe to mop the floors and empty the trash!

  5. With all the rhetoric here about the laurels and problems with Monsanto products, where oh where is the discussion of a class action lawsuit against Monsanto?

    Why is everyone wasting time discussing the obvious – it matters not what Roundup does or does not do – what matters is that Monsanto knowingly put a product on the market that gives people cancer! If they knew 35 years ago that the glysophates were a cancer causing agent, then the FDA, and anyone who knowingly put people at risk needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    Anyone who kills people (whether by violence or poisoning) is still subject to capital punishment under our existing laws. A slow kill is still murder – and Monsanto has been slowly poisoning people for decades. Remember Agent Orange? Now Roundup; and then we factor in their Genetically Modified Seeds that the rest of the world will not even purchase. Where are lawyers that have the testicular fortitude to take on this industry giant? Why haven’t they and others even attempted to put a stop to frankenfoods and the slow kill of the American public?

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