Hey Void,
Thanks for your reply.
I don't think contaminating the attenuated viri with H5N1 is a shipping error. If these people can make a mistake in a facility that is legally required to be run at Bio-Security Level 4, then we need to consider legal action or removal of charter. It isn;t just a mislabeled package, or a coincidence, it is gross negligence at best. And some kind of genocide at worst.
The Monsanto one is almost worse. The Pharma Corps are very dangerous and can cause a lot of damage, but GM food can cause an ecological collapse. They said years ago that they would solve world hunder with GM food (ignoring that world hunger is not a problem of resources, but a problem of economics and politics). We said "Yeah right". They made the Round-Up Ready Falv-r Saver Tomato first. It was laced with a gene they found in a mold growing in a holding vat full of old Round-Up. Literally, their fancy RUR gene was found by chance in a mold. What was their first though upon finding a gene that was resistant to the deadly effects of the pesticide? "Let's put in in the food!"
So did they add this gene in a safe manner? Did they do appropriate tests about it's saftey? Does a RuR tomato solve world hunger yet? Yields are down, every year people spray a record amount of Round-Up to try to kill the resistant super weeds (didn't we learn anything from the overuse of antibiotics?). When they add these genes they literally fire them at the plant genes with tiny guns. I can not make it more scientific than that. Then some of the genes get some of the code in some part of the helix. How do they know if it took or not? They always add an anti-bacterial gene (to every single GM crop) as a marker, so that they can check if the gene took easier and cheaper. Is there any negative effect of this second gene? We don't know.
And then there is the Terminator gene. Another thing they have done is add the Annual gene to perenials. So plants that used to over-winter, now die off every year. Why? So you have to buy the seed again next year. Monsanto decided that they needed more profit, so they altered the genetic structure of plants on earth. Have they solved world hunger yet? Are they even trying?
The biggest concern is that plants are known to share their code and cross mutate. If other plants take up the Terminator gene, there could be a literal collapse of foodstuffs. Like no apples again ever.
In testing all animals that ate GM food had adverse reactions. A lot of Monsanto tests are questionable though. A little fact, when given a choice any animal will eat a real piece of food over a GM piece of food. Without fail, every time. They will only eat GM food if it is the only option in from of them. If I held up two tomatoes, you couldn't tell which one was GM, but a rat can?
And don't get me started on the problems with Patenting plants. Monsanto owns the inventors patent for plants. I think plants were here long before Monsanto. They also own a strain of breast cancer. Don't get it, they may sue you for theft (a trick they pull with farmers who refuse to buy seed from them).
Oh yeah, and the new Iraqi occupation government passed a law that all seed storage in Iraq is illegal (Baghdad had a seed vault that was thousands of years old). All those old seeds disappeared. Where did they go (along with the Sumerian tablets, the oldest writing known to man)? My guess (just a guess) is Bill Gates creepy doomsday seed vault. And another law that the new democracy passed was that you were legally bound to buy seeds from Monsanto.
And what they did to India. Force and trick the farmers to get the BTE Cotton. It's yeild was terrible, it needs more instead of less pesticides, the workers got terrible rashes picking it, the animals that ate it all died (literally 100%) and last I heard well over 100,000 Indian farmers had taken their own lives because their family farm was ruined after one year of BTE cotton. 100,000 suicides. Thanks Monsanto.
They just won an award for being the least ethical corp, and they got Company of the Year in Forbes. They will make a profit even if it kills you. Even if it could end all plant life on the planet. But they haven't gotten around to solving world hunger quite yet, one day soon they promise.
Thanks for your reply.
I don't think contaminating the attenuated viri with H5N1 is a shipping error. If these people can make a mistake in a facility that is legally required to be run at Bio-Security Level 4, then we need to consider legal action or removal of charter. It isn;t just a mislabeled package, or a coincidence, it is gross negligence at best. And some kind of genocide at worst.
The Monsanto one is almost worse. The Pharma Corps are very dangerous and can cause a lot of damage, but GM food can cause an ecological collapse. They said years ago that they would solve world hunder with GM food (ignoring that world hunger is not a problem of resources, but a problem of economics and politics). We said "Yeah right". They made the Round-Up Ready Falv-r Saver Tomato first. It was laced with a gene they found in a mold growing in a holding vat full of old Round-Up. Literally, their fancy RUR gene was found by chance in a mold. What was their first though upon finding a gene that was resistant to the deadly effects of the pesticide? "Let's put in in the food!"
So did they add this gene in a safe manner? Did they do appropriate tests about it's saftey? Does a RuR tomato solve world hunger yet? Yields are down, every year people spray a record amount of Round-Up to try to kill the resistant super weeds (didn't we learn anything from the overuse of antibiotics?). When they add these genes they literally fire them at the plant genes with tiny guns. I can not make it more scientific than that. Then some of the genes get some of the code in some part of the helix. How do they know if it took or not? They always add an anti-bacterial gene (to every single GM crop) as a marker, so that they can check if the gene took easier and cheaper. Is there any negative effect of this second gene? We don't know.
And then there is the Terminator gene. Another thing they have done is add the Annual gene to perenials. So plants that used to over-winter, now die off every year. Why? So you have to buy the seed again next year. Monsanto decided that they needed more profit, so they altered the genetic structure of plants on earth. Have they solved world hunger yet? Are they even trying?
The biggest concern is that plants are known to share their code and cross mutate. If other plants take up the Terminator gene, there could be a literal collapse of foodstuffs. Like no apples again ever.
In testing all animals that ate GM food had adverse reactions. A lot of Monsanto tests are questionable though. A little fact, when given a choice any animal will eat a real piece of food over a GM piece of food. Without fail, every time. They will only eat GM food if it is the only option in from of them. If I held up two tomatoes, you couldn't tell which one was GM, but a rat can?
And don't get me started on the problems with Patenting plants. Monsanto owns the inventors patent for plants. I think plants were here long before Monsanto. They also own a strain of breast cancer. Don't get it, they may sue you for theft (a trick they pull with farmers who refuse to buy seed from them).
Oh yeah, and the new Iraqi occupation government passed a law that all seed storage in Iraq is illegal (Baghdad had a seed vault that was thousands of years old). All those old seeds disappeared. Where did they go (along with the Sumerian tablets, the oldest writing known to man)? My guess (just a guess) is Bill Gates creepy doomsday seed vault. And another law that the new democracy passed was that you were legally bound to buy seeds from Monsanto.
And what they did to India. Force and trick the farmers to get the BTE Cotton. It's yeild was terrible, it needs more instead of less pesticides, the workers got terrible rashes picking it, the animals that ate it all died (literally 100%) and last I heard well over 100,000 Indian farmers had taken their own lives because their family farm was ruined after one year of BTE cotton. 100,000 suicides. Thanks Monsanto.
They just won an award for being the least ethical corp, and they got Company of the Year in Forbes. They will make a profit even if it kills you. Even if it could end all plant life on the planet. But they haven't gotten around to solving world hunger quite yet, one day soon they promise.
