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["Eisenhauer" <eisenhauerdesign@earthlink.net>]

Here in the American Gulag the USDA is currently rubber stamping approvals
for GMOs without any public comment while stating they will increase testing
for contamination by GMOs in organic agriculture.  This is no less than a
back door attack on organic sustainable agriculture.  It is their way of
destroying sustainable agriculture by promoting the contamination of our
biosphere with patented junk genes.  While these over leveraged monsters
push for the end of food freedom our population is experiencing skyrocketing
increases in cancer, autoimmune diseases and a societal degeneration into an
animalistic inhuman culture pushing war, death and depravity as answers to
any particular issue/problem.  A  culture of profit first and people last
with reverence for fascism is driving this policy of corporate supremacy.  

Steven 



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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John D'hondt
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:52 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] The next World food crisis?


I have never seen gmo plants as anything else than sick. When humans have
extra DNA as in Down syndrome that does the individuals not much good. More
is not better!
Why would it be different in plants? Of course these are usually annual
crops thus short lived and it is for humans not easy to see the health
problems they have.
Tens of thousands of farmers in India have already comitted suicide because
their low producing gmo plants bancrupted them. Only in places where rich
farmers can afford fertilizers and irrigation water have gmo plants some
chance.

What I also think is that extreme expensive commodities make for better
profits for big companies. When food or oil are cheap there is less to be
made for the big companies. Only with rising prices do they get record
profits.
And I could take this thought one step further; I have heard farmers
complain that there is only gmo seed still to be bought these days. Guess
which company has the best stocks of non gmo seeds? Right, Monsanto. They
will make sure to win whatever happens.
john

> According to news reports, the price for soya has risen nearly to the 
> record levels it reached during the first global food crisis in 2007-8.
> Droughts in Argentine, Brazil and Uruguay are cited as the reason for 
> the price increase.  I think it is safe to assume that most soya crops 
> grown in Argentine, Brazil and Uruguay are GMO crops.
>
> Even though these GMO crops may not have been engineered for drought 
> resistance, it nevertheless seems to indicate that industrial farming 
> using GMOs is less capable of coping with drought than sustainable 
> farming methods increasing humus levels and soil water retention.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Dieter
>
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