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- henri3, on 04/14/2009, -24/+115digg for prohibition of GM monsanto monster corn
- Habit4ming, on 04/14/2009, -21/+86Kudos to Germany.....woot woot...
- Va1kyrie, on 04/15/2009, -12/+65Monsanto is evil.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/the ... - naderventura, on 04/14/2009, -19/+70dugg for freedom
and posted on Daily Paul political blog
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/89753 - ontain, on 04/15/2009, -2/+50One of the things Monsanto does is go on farmers lots to check if there is any corn that has the Monsanto GMO DNA in it. Since pollen is carried in the wind the genes do spread. Now here's the kicker, Monsanto was given a patent on the genes and if there are traces in some corn on your field then you have to pay them fees. Even if you didn't bring it there yourself. That's right, you'd have to cover your whole field in order not to get your crop infected.
Since the farmer needs to play a license they just end up using Monsanto's the next year around. this leads to the lack of biodiversity that can lead to catastrophic loss if there is a disease that hits these plants. the potato famines were also caused by a lack of biodiversity in the potatoes grown.
also for the ppl that think GMO's help feed the world. They don't understand how the world works. The GMO's are just to protect profit. They have genes that prevent seeds from growing so that farms need to buy new seeds every year. does that sound like they are interested in feeding ppl? They also mix plant DNA with fish or nuts to make them easier to ship and store but can trigger allergic reactions in sensitive ppl. - CoolHandLuke70, on 04/15/2009, -12/+59Good news!
- lostlyrics, on 04/15/2009, -6/+50German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced Tuesday
she was banning the cultivation of GM corn in Germany.`ยด````
Remarkable here, she is from the most conservative
party in a coalition of christian and, social democrats. - JoeParanoid, on 04/15/2009, -12/+56Why should any corporation have the right to experiment on your population? The burden of proof that it's not dangerous should be on Monsanto, whose track record is not too good on this subject.
- henri3, on 04/15/2009, -23/+60I digg real food not frank-n-food :o)
- Hetman, on 04/15/2009, -14/+47Genetically enginerred/modified foods are not necessarily bad. We just need to rework our copy right laws, so companines like monsanto cannot hurt the consumer.
- TicoTico, on 04/15/2009, -1/+32GM foods is about corporations owning the seeds.
Read this also http://www.physorg.com/news158950784.html it's a 15 year corn and soy study that concludes that GM foods productivity increase is 5%, while conventional breeding yields 25% - Apocrypha, on 04/15/2009, -7/+38Monsanto needs to be stopped. Their goal is to infect everything with their modified crap and then claim that everyone has to pay them because their crap has gotten into the general food supply.
- aegis17, on 04/15/2009, -0/+29Read up on Monsanto. They are the mafia of ag business. Their corn seed is use-once, while naturally cultivated and even genetically engineered seed from other corporations are perennial. In otherwords, Monsanto has created a seed that dies each year JUST SO you have to buy more the next. This is NOT what corn does naturally.
The frankenfood argument is debatable - one fact I have discovered is that frankenfoods are nutritionally similar to heritage crops. When they get larger, their nutritional density goes down. If you buy a six pound GE tomato, it will give you the same amount of nutrients as a six ounce organically grown tomato. If your goal is to feed the world, giving people six pounds of nutritionally void food won't fix your problem.
But yeah, go Germany for telling Monsanto to shove their ***** seeds up their own asses. - notzak, on 04/15/2009, -9/+37Knowing Monsanto, they'll probably sue Germany because someone once ate a bag of chips containing a grain of their crop, but someone needs to stand up to them.
- kemp34, on 04/15/2009, -6/+26Down with Monsanto.
- Wag3Slav3, on 04/15/2009, -7/+27Uh, exactly how can Monsanto sue Germany for that sovereign nation passing a perfectly valid law banning their allegedly harmful products.
I mean, what leg does Monsanto have to stand on in a suit where a foreign nation passes a law? What court could possibly say that the German govmnt can't say that franken-corn MUST be sold in their country.
whiskey tango foxtrot. - neio, on 04/15/2009, -2/+21Monsanto et al copy right protect GM foods, for the third world farmer it means they cant plant leftover seed from the previous season. Monsanto needs to die... the old ways in seeding and growing food is not necessarily the bad way. Monsanto and Co ***** up India's small scale farmers.
- censormagnet, on 04/15/2009, -2/+21wtf? might not hold up in court? what court..
world government courts going to tell a sovereign nation weither or not they are allowed to deny poison seeds from infecting their country? - tushyd, on 04/15/2009, -5/+24That's ***** that they feed you. Yes GMO's have increased amount of food production, but they're designed not to feed people, but animals. They're also designed to make Monsanto profit. Once you use their seed, you HAVE to use it.
They're destroying local agriculture and turning into one giant machine. You really need to learn about agriculture and its history. - AndrewMoyer, on 04/15/2009, -4/+23As an American, I would like to know:
Where can I buy this German produce? - nirvanix, on 04/15/2009, -1/+18They HUGELY increase yield? I live in a farming community and that is utter *****. You obviously don't farm for a living. It was supposed to increase profit for farmers, but it hasn't really.
- bpwned, on 04/15/2009, -1/+18Dude, we didn't ban MON 810 because it's modified or we don't like Monsanto, we did because there is substantial evidence that suggests that it is harmful to more than just pest, but also to other animals and insects.
- henri3, on 04/15/2009, -14/+30A good new's digg!!
- zephc, on 04/15/2009, -0/+16Monsanto is like Johnny Appleseed, if he was to sue everyone who took seeds from his apples and tried to plant their own trees. They're total douchebags.
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -9/+25monsanto is the war on people
- nirvanix, on 04/15/2009, -6/+21Yes, and that's incorrect science. It's been refuted many times. Do some research and you'll see this. GM crops are all about profit. I live in a midwestern farm belt and farmers originally used it because they thought it would improve their profit by cutting their spraying costs. Now their finding out the best way to farm is organic and use natural defenses against weed and pest.
- hopefuel, on 04/15/2009, -2/+16this is so Super important - I'm proud of my German half!
Germany provided my early childhood education on living my life with an ecologically friendly twist, recycling bottles for pocket money, no plastic bags for as long as i can remember.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Grune PunkT!!!! - JohnInMT, on 04/15/2009, -3/+17Are you serious XtheXlanternX? First off, could you throw a few more Xs in your name please to achieve the full 12 year old AOLer effect?
Monsanto isn't about helping farmers, people, or anything remotely benevolent... I suggest you watch the documentary "The future of food" and see what Monsanto has done to local farmers, and how they've sued local farmers for violating their patent who ended up with their frankin-corn growing in their crops... So if 1 little seed blows off a truck, and ends up in someone's corn field, Monsanto can go after them, and sue the crap out of the farmer. Yep, that helps farmers!
How about the self terminating seeds? What happens if that ends up being "accidentally" used in poorer countries? Then they become slaves to Monsanto and have to buy their seeds every year from Monsanto.. Yep...real benevolent.
Before you spout off in support of Monsanto and how they are trying to "help farmers", try to at least do a little reading on the subject.
We need more countries to follow Germany's lead and ban Monsanto. - XtheXlanternX, on 04/15/2009, -16/+30It is funny how this lawmaker is hardcore Christian social conservative and has been on a crusade to fight science for a while now, yet gains tons of support from digg because it is really all about bashing corporations and "sticking it to the man."
- bpwned, on 04/15/2009, -3/+17Tell me, how does it continue? There are plenty of genetically modified, non-harmful organisms in use in Germany. This time there is a strong suspicion that it is harmful to more than just pest but also other animals and insects. That's why it was banned after 3 years of use.
Not because there's a war on science. No offense, but in the western world this kind of war only exists in certain parts of the US. It's very unusual here, even for our conservative folks. - prompel, on 04/15/2009, -5/+19Yeah, right-wing in Europe is about equal to left-wing in the US.
- stonebear, on 04/15/2009, -0/+14It's true: Companies like Monsanto are all about limiting choice through the elimination of agricultural alternatives to their products through any means possible.
- tushyd, on 04/15/2009, -0/+14Hurt the consumer? You mean hurt tens of millions of local farmers all around the world.
- DirtyVicar, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13I don't think there's any scientific evidence that GM is safe, either. Not counting the industry-funded studies.
- ryanpoleary, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13The Germans are likely not as concerned with the effects on the food (i.e. making it "frankenfood") as they are with the long-term effects of GMO on the growing medium/ecosystem, and the patenting of specific genetic codes as basically unconstitutional (perhaps by U.S. and German standards) and totally detrimental to the native agricultural system. See: farmer suicide worldwide.
- dblespresso, on 04/15/2009, -1/+14Thats what we did with DDT, but Damn did it sound like we were doing a good thing.
- ontain, on 04/15/2009, -1/+14biodiversity is a good thing or else you could have mass famine if there is an outbreak of disease.
- shig, on 04/15/2009, -1/+13How about massive crop failures and famine caused by Monsanto crops?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.asp ...
The only thing the grows in Monsanto's fields is the death toll. Yet people blindly follow bad science, because it promises miracles it doesn't deliver. They'll lobby government to change food safety standards, they loudly proclaim any who wants to keep Monsanto out as being anti-science and ignorant. If they don't want your poison then what's the problem? More for you! - nirvanix, on 04/15/2009, -7/+19But they WERE forcing people to use their corn, by the most ruthless means as well. Surrounding resisting farmers with GM corn so that their crop was cross pollinated and then they sue that resisting farmer out of existence. They've done it in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
- tushyd, on 04/15/2009, -1/+13Yeah, but one is within the confines of natural processes and the other is modification without boundaries. Scientists are not infallible.
- TicoTico, on 04/15/2009, -0/+12GM corn does NOT hugely increase yield, conventional breeding productivity increase is way higher
Proof: http://www.physorg.com/news158950784.html - randomn3ss, on 04/15/2009, -2/+14fyi selective breeding is not the same as genetically modifying.
Buried for blatant ingnorance. - ontain, on 04/15/2009, -0/+12not only taste but nutrients too. today's fruits and vegetables have less vitamins than the ones we had decades ago. Organic is just what our parents/grandparents ate normally before the big agro corps came in.
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/sep2005_report ... - dragon76, on 04/15/2009, -2/+14Selectively breeding plants is not the same as adding firefly genes.
- jorisb, on 04/15/2009, -3/+14Let me know when you find some of this "real" food.
Corn is one the biggest freaks of human creation of all the vegetables. People started 'domesticating' it 10,000 years ago and we haven't looked back. - celotil, on 04/15/2009, -4/+15Skippy, there is a real difference between cultivating cross-pollinated crops, and directly changing the genetic code of a particular crop.
Think about animal breeding if you don't get it. You can cross various breeds by natural reproduction (like cross-pollination with plants) and get some cool mutts, or you can directly change the genetic code in a proto-type "sperm" and inject it into an egg (like changing the genetic code of a plant seed) but what if you destroyed the genetic sequence needed for sight, hearing, or a sense of touch?
What if, while making a plant produce a type of bug repellent, you created a subtle, carcinogenic poison which stays in our systems and builds up over time until it kills us, like an organic sort of mercury?
The problem is that Monsanto hasn't tested this stuff over the long term, and the last time we took the line "this stuff is great for killing bugs but is harmless to people" was when DDT came out, and much later we found out it's pretty much deadly to anything. - yerdaddy, on 04/15/2009, -4/+14It's fairly simple. When you piss around with things at the top of the chain it's pretty obvious when something goes wrong. If I have three eyes and can't talk, you'll notice. On the other hand, nobody has any idea what all will go wrong with this fake corn that's cheap yet tastes like ***** and makes one company rich.
- tommyhat, on 04/15/2009, -3/+13GM shouldn't OWN corn. That's the real issue.
- Floppygrandma, on 04/15/2009, -1/+11The European Union, look it up.
- eakle, on 04/15/2009, -0/+10The WTO and its trade court is heavily stacked against the decisions of sovereign nations. It favors multi-national corporations like Monsanto (look up Codex Alimentarius -- that is the weapon Monsanto will use in the trade dispute court -- and they will probably prevail). Once a nation joins up with the WTO, they can kiss off their ability to make trade decisions like this one (Codex Alimentarius will dictate that GMO corn is OK so no nation can refuse it). The WTO will fine Germany over their sovereign decision about GMO corn (it will be called a "trade violation") and keep fining them until they change their ways and accept GMO corn.
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