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[wd9]

Your lack of planning for a realistic
inclusion of adventitious presence from
a chaotic nature does not constitute an
emergency on everyone else's part.

Once that car, computer, whatever from
'stand up corporations' is no longer
functioning and thrown into the
environment, is it that company's
responsibility to clean up the toxic
materials? Or does society suck it up?

[parsley]

I can choose to not buy an offensive car that
soley burns human blood. Ample dissapproving
buyers send a message to the company, "We
don't like your product and we refuse to
buy it "

Food containing GM products is prepared under
a cloak of secrecy. Every company is reluctant to
admit they use GM soybeans. Biotech companies
fight rhe labeling of products suck as 'GM canola'
by spending millions of $$. We watched what
the reaction of seed farmers was when triffids
flax escaped on the public; they hid under a new
corporate name and went underground. And then
stuck farmer Joe with the bill.

That is the precedent for agribusiness and it will
happen again and again., wont it.

It's a trust factor, now, wd. Once you understand
what lost trust does to a business, you'll have
more respect for my being able to make a choice.

In your world, I won't even know what kind of
modified food I'm eating. #SecretFood I wont
know and you won't tell me, and legally won't
have to tell me.

The he kicker is Mrs Jones doesn't have to buy a
car. Or a cell phone. Or a TV. But She has to
buy food.

That's why consumers fight back. They have to
buy food. And they want to know what they are
eating and THEY want to make their choice.

If you were wise, you would be advocating
labeling while you watch the organic market
continue to grow. It's the elite who buy organic
food; the educated high income earners.

Go pound them for awhile. Put an ad in the
papers and explain the merits of manipulating
their food., Tell them how trustworthy the funding
governments will be if monumental food
modification errors are made and class actions
begin and the governments simultaneously act as
funder and regulator.

Tell the consumers the biotech companies are
there for them and stand behind their modified
food.

And when you're at it, tell farmers that the
million Canadian acres of glyphosphate-resistant
weeds in the Stratus agri-Marketing survey
research is a figment of their imagination, and
that chem co's have it all under control.
#don'tworrybehqppy

Trust. Say that word twice. Wd. Pars

[wd9]

I am Parsely. Telling them of the
bullshit and lies you profess in the name
of marketing an over priced product with
no benefit.

[wd9]

Why should resistance be an issue to
someone who doesn't use chemical? Its
not a problem, its nature. Its called
natural selection.

RNAi (RNA interference) will solve that
problem in the near future for the rest
of us. The ability to turn off or down
the expression of certain genes. Allergy
free peanut butter and decaffinated
coffee are fine examples of RNAi.

[parsley]

I've read good and bad about RNAi and here
again, hold reservation because it can have
doubts about unintended consequences in the
food we eat.

technology is new and exciting, I understand
that aspect, but food is life itself.

I'm quite open to convincing, wd, I embrace
some technology, but your 'we will because we
can' argument does not convince me, nor the
educated and wealthy, and not even so many
your 'own people' who regularly but quietly buy
organics.

It is important for you to understand that your
market share dwindles, not because of me, or
because of organics, but because you have not
convinced smart people it is safe. They dont
believe you. And they have every right to not
believe you.

Trust. You own that issue. I supply not only that
trust void., but the allergy void, and the celiac
void, and the protein intolerant void and immune
system void, and the 'tomatoes that taste like
tomatoes' void, and the exciting choice of
varieties void.

Take responsibility for planning your own
marketing success by taking responsibility for
your marketing shortcomings instead of
downloading blame. Thats what grownups do
Pars

[wd9]

Slow clap. Sheesh.

[parsley]

"She sighed as she put the tantrummy kid to bed,
kicking and whining, and shut the door, happy for
a little peace and quiet."

[pourfarmer]

man, wd9 is sure good with the google
machine... i could post about same amount
of links regarding tainted conventionally
grown food as well but why bother?

[charliep]

Will any of this discussion have any impact on canola and soybean production?

[charliep]

I'll help you out. Grow Polish canola for premium oil markets and better cold press it for the organic market.

[pourfarmer]

its basically impossible to grow certified
organic canola in western canada due to
possible gm contamination. There was/is a
guideline in place of no conventional
canola fields within 10km of a certified
organic canola field... good luck finding
a field like that in western canada
definitely not in my area anyway

[charliep]

Perhaps to help me, does Polish canola (open pollinated) out cross with Argentine (close polintated)? At what level?

[pourfarmer]

I can not tell you for sure but i believe
cross polination is possible to what level
i dont know, however I am thinking the 10k
separation is more in fear of gm seeds
being transplanted via wind and wildlife

[wd9]

If you put shit with E coli on your food
to grow it you have a much higher chance
of eating e coli then synthetic fert
which has no contamination.

But then common sense and organic rarely
meet.

Please post those links pourfarmer of
contamination on a conventional farm.
Always interested in a good read.

[pourfarmer]

I agree with you on that, chances are
definatly better getting e coli tainted
food when producers are using raw
sewage. A organic producer who uses raw
sewage as a top dressing fertilizer
deserves to be tar and feathered, these
kinds of operations do not stay in
business long i would imagine (or hope).
Again, common sense.

http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html

Take look at that list, out of 18 e coli
contaminations resulting in product
recalls I count only 1 organic
product... hmm?