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- From: Leslie Moyer <unschooler AT lrec.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:15:52 -0500
On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Thamnophis wrote: I try to judge GMO crops while keeping in mind the people I saw starving to death in Haiti. Our earth's population is growing much faster than our ag output. And GMO crops will save untold lives in the future. Population will always expand to the limit of our food supply--it's the way it is and has always been and we don't seem to be getting any smarter in that regard. Sooner or later, no matter how much we exploit and pollute our resources (in this case, the gene pool; in the case of "conventional" production, the pesticides, herbicides, water pollution, etc., and in both cases the loss of topsoil, draining of our aquifers, deforestation, etc.), we'll pass the carrying capacity of our planet. Most knowledgable people believe we already have. Exploitation can't be "THE" solution to starvation--it only leads to more starvation and takes us further down the path-of-no-return. I am a compassionate person of the sort who cries during Hallmark commercials. I'm not "pro-starvation". But humans are not exempt from the laws of nature--though we live as if we are--and the sooner we realize that, the easier it will be for all of us. We need permanent solutions and one of those is population control because if we don't do it deliberately, "nature" will take care of it for us and it won't be pretty. --Leslie |
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[Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Mike Rock, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Etienne Goyer, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Wiediger, Alison, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Bill Bradshaw, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Wiediger, Alison, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Richard Stewart, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Thamnophis, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Leslie Moyer, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Mary Conner, 09/22/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, charlie taplin, 09/23/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Marie Kamphefner, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Brigette Leach, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Thamnophis, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Bill Bradshaw, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
William H Shoemaker, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Mike Rock, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Wiediger, Alison, 09/19/2011
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- [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Mike Rock, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, sunnfarm, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Benjamin Shute, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Etienne Goyer, 09/19/2011
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