it's disgusting that GMO's need mORE herbicide

I never even heard of non-synthetic pesticides before.

Check it out!

https://gmoanswers.com/

"GMO Answers is funded by the members of The Council for Biotechnology Information, which includes BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Monsanto Company and Syngenta."

Non GMO crops are sprayed with Glyphosate
to speed up harvests.

Anti-GMO posts are fact-free zones.

This isn't exactly supporting GMO. It just points out the problem is beyond just GMO's.

Farmers get up to three crop harvests
annually with the use of glyphosate.

Winter wheat, followed by soybeans, or corn.
Some plots get a very quick turnover.

When the crop dusters or tractor sprayers
are active we shut the house tight and
hope for the best.

Occasionally, we can taste the chemicals in the air...
meaning we are being sprayed along with the weeds.

It's effing unconscionable what factory farmers do
to their very own families and communities for profits

What can we do besides move? $$$

Understand than easily-digestible graphics, but I really suggest looking into actual peer-reviewed science. It doesn't have pretty pictures, but it does have actual facts. Here's a hint: glyphosate =/= GMO. Also Monsanto =\= GMO. If you want actual perspective, try actual science.

Monsanto can afford all the fluff science it wants but we're in the middle of the second mass extinction and you will never convince me that Monsanto's farming practices are not a huge part of that.

What if we put all those tax dollars and science behind sustainable agriculture?

We're simply poisoning our planet.

The planet will rebound. Humans may not.

You dismiss thousands of peer-reviewed scientific publications as being shills of an industry. It's apparent you have no idea how the scientific method and/or peer review process works.

Who cares how many species die as long as there's a profit.

I have to go now but I hope you're paid well for this shill.

The classic shill gambit.

"Me no science, you must be shill"

Mass extinction...meh...what's on TVEE. If you cannot get enough people to even take the time or care enough about something like a global phenomenon that wiped out the dinosaurs, how can you expect them to rally around the idea of 'bad plants'?

Not a rant at you or the OP, just we seem to be way down the rabbit hole on this one.

If your problem is with Monsanto, then address that. GMO != Monsanto. There is other, very VERY useful GMO work being done, such as developing rice crops that are drought resistant... very important with the coming rise in temperatures.

Perhaps that GMO corn was designed for more glyphosate use ?

Avoiding the obvious you are.

Meanwhile Monsanto is stocking up on pesticides:

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/05/monsanto-syngenta-merger-45-billion-pesticides

Not every GMO is GM'd to be "Roundup safe."

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Would you like to talk about Golden Rice? Or Arctic Apple? Or even the modern papaya (nearly ALL papaya are GMO to resist Papaya ringspot virus)?

If your issue is with Monsanto, then talk about Monsanto. GMO =/= Monsanto. Round-Up =/= GMO. This discussion is about GMOs, not RoundUp or Monsanto. Conflating them as one issue is intellectually dishonest.

If gmo's could save the world I still would be against them because of who sells them - almost

Meet Norman Borlaug, the man who saved a billion lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Fact: Our government does not subsidize GMO because it's GMO.

Fact: Organic farmers are not required to pay fees for certification unless they wish to have their products certified as organic.

Fact: Personal Protective Equipment is also required for pesticides listed under the National Organic Program that are sprayed on the food [font color="black" size="6" face="face"]YOU EAT[/font]

http://www.kellysolutions.com/erenewals/documentsubmit/KellyData%5CID%5Cpesticide%5CMSDS%5C56576%5C56576-1%5C56576-1_CHEM_ONE_LTD_COPPER_SULFATE_CRYSTALS_7_12_2002_3_07_47_PM.pdf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-505427/Thousands-tons-organic-food-produced-using-toxic-chemicals.html



ANTI-GMO Perspective:

I don't have time to delve into them today, but I did a search & DU's mother earth came up with a good post on Jon Entine, the Genetic Literacy Project's founder~


11. More about Jon Entine's "Genetic Literacy Project"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=208207

The million$ spent by BigAg to influence public opinion seems to be working based on the responses on this thread.

Its truly heartbreaking for our butterflies, bats, bees, and birds.

From The Refusers blog:

Aluminum and the Neurotoxicity of Vaccines
(copied from globalresearch )

How Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark Totalitarian Nightmare

The Collapse Of The Vaccine Establishment
(from Gary Null )

Measles Eradication is a Fantasy
(from the Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice)

Unvaccinated Kids Are Healthier Than Vaccinated: NYU-Trained MD
(from Age of Autism )


So, the blog with the apparent expose of the Genetic Literacy Project is a fucking loony bin of anti-vax and anti-science nonsense.

No surprise that it's posted on DU by the anti-GMO crowd. The anti-GMO and anti-vax movements share many of the same key figures and tactics.

Try again.

Sid

Anti-GMO sites push Facebook graphics.