Growing Pharma-Food

[parsley]

Cooks often ask, "What's in this?" Eating rice is
about to become a whole new experience.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035745_GMO_rice_
human_genes_Kansas.html

[wd9]

Great how the article doesn't really say
anything useful.

That was sarcasm.

[wd9]

Great how A Busch is boycotting all rice
cuz they don't want it in their addictive
domestic abuse causing carcinogen called
alcohol.

Albumin would seem to be least of the
worry.

[parsley]

The point is this: Adding extra iron can be lethal
for some people. Adding extra Vitamin A can
harm others. Adding extra Vitamin K can land
someone else in the hospital. Rice is not an
occasional food; it's a daily diet.

Worse is when the iron rice crosses with the Vit K
rice, and both of them cross with the Vit A rice,
and the......

You do get the hang off that concept, dont you,
wd? You can if you try. Ponder it. Pars

[ado089]

"frankenrice" haha, this has to be
legit. While browsing the site I think I
also saw that the sky is falling, and
someone was witnessed crying wolf. I
don't understand how people will slag
fox news or sun, then leach on to this
type of stuff as if it's gospel. Oh well
I guess fear and hysteria sells better
than fact.

[ado089]

Parsley, are you telling us that it's
okay for the organic industry to
allegedly produce more nutrient dense
food but when conventional farmers do it
using a little bit of bio tech the same
result is then poisonous?

[wd9]

Of course i do parsely. Not telling you
you can't grow your mutagenic crops,
spray them with bT and other toxins, add
a dash of E Coli and sell them with the
moniker "organic". Go right ahead.

[parsley]

I have a problem with stacking. Most educated
people will admit to a problem arising with toxicity
from modified plants crossing, If you don't, you
should. I also have a problem with lack of due
diligence. Lab testing should not escape. That
includes creating test tube creatures. If you
don't, you should. I have a problem with
responsibility. Being acountable is crucial. For
biological and economical reasons, plus the trust
factor. if you don't, you should. Pars

[parsley]

You have a choice to not purchase organic food.
Thy are clearly labelled. The audit trail explicity
leads you to the farmers who grew the product.
It's called accountability. And some farmers who
have bad management practices have been
decertified.

I don't hear anyone stepping up and claiming
responsibility for experimental projects that have
escaped. Or concern. Your manual for best-
practices must clealry define how to abort
responsibility. Pars

[wilagro]

Parsley: I can see that you need to be












Parsley: you need to stop reading that crappy "Natural News" site propaganda.
It is going to scare you to death and turn you into a shivering fearful wreck.

Really, do you actually believe most of what they print? Terrible, terrible crap they are peddling.

[wilagro]

Don't know what happened there with that gap Parsley...just insert these words and that will do..."CERTIFIED" AS BEING GULLIBLE.

[wd9]

This story is at least 7 years old btw.

[parsley]

It was regurgitated in twitter this morning. And
reminded me of the insidious effect of stacking
over the years. And how due diligence is still not
considered important. I did a casual search for
the implimentation of remedial practices. And
protocol that prevents further forbidden ' lab in
the field' escapees. Those oopsies are not
considered important; indeed they are instead
hidden, protected, and defended,

I can accept risk. Do it every day.

Biotech needs present eaters with the scope of
the risk as the first step. Pars.

I will assume the "I Don't give a rat's ass"
attitude prevails, oopsies are ignored entirely ,
and rice is stacked.

Will, anyone growing foo for the hyper-allergic
understands the importance if due diligence. And
hope to hell you never have to depend on
integrity.

[ado089]

Parsley, when these big bio companies
produce their hybrid devil seed they
must keep a buffer from like species.
For canola that is a mile. I can't even
begin to iterate how much work that
takes when every company has 100,000
accres plus of anual seed production. If
you want to supply a premium, niche
market perhaps you should practice the
same due diligence. Allergies are not
new, it's just in the recent past those
with severe allergies have survived past
childhood.

[parsley]

I find seed growers diligent. Just as I find organic
audit trails conscientious.

But there are companies and people who break
trust. They cannot be sheltered and protected.
Growing in secret must be exposed. Sheltering
malpractice must be called out. You know what
happens when seed growers close ranks? It's
trust-suicide.

Don't try and tell me that organics are just as
bad' . Or that stacking or modification is not any
different than natural selection. Or change names
to avoid responsibility. Tighten up your industry
to strengthen it.

Grow up and take responsibility and stop
defending those who will not. It will pay off in the
long run. For everyone. Pars.