View Full Version : Our Future Threatening by Biotech Co.


jacqueline
02-05-2007, 09:08 PM
This video will awaken the most frightening food crisis within your soul!
Take 90 important minutes and watch ithis video to the very end. Support local farmers-- before it is too late--PS farmer's markets have increased by 79% in the US alone since 2003!

http://www.mercola.com/2007/jan/11/the-future-of-food----you-need-to-watch-this-video.htm

bubbles
02-07-2007, 07:45 AM
This video will awaken the most frightening food crisis within your soul!
Take 90 important minutes and watch ithis video to the very end. Support local farmers-- before it is too late--PS farmer's markets have increased by 79% in the US alone since 2003!

http://www.mercola.com/2007/jan/11/the-future-of-food----you-need-to-watch-this-video.htm


The best way to avoid such genetically modified foods and food ingredients is to eat fresh, organically grown foods. The more fast food, soda, ready-to-eat foods we consume the more at risk we are from genetically modified items.

It is possible to grow our food requirements through normal methods without the aid of genetic engineering. It is only the greed of the few that is slowly becoming the bane of the many.

This video is a horror show, and if we do not wake up and act now, it may be too late. In fact it might already be too late for citizens of some countries.:eek:

justindemetri
02-07-2007, 03:00 PM
When I was doing research in biotech and bioagricultural companies, I came to a scary conclusion:

If Monsanto has its way there will be no viable seeds left- you will have to go to them to grow anything since they are modifying plants so they do not produce fertile seed for the next generation. This means that farmers would have to buy a new seed stock every year (and pass the losses on to us the consumer)!

The real scary thing is cross pollination - just like what happened to the farmers in that video. That candian farmer had generations of his own seed stock but somehow the GM seed found its way onto his fields. Nature always finds a way to spead genetic material and so there is no way to keep the GM plants from cross-breeding with the unmodified crops.

Unless you grow your plants in a sealed green house there is no way to control the cross pollination process. Over time even our homegrown vegetables may even start to show traits associated with GM just by being grown outside.

jacqueline
02-13-2007, 04:43 PM
A Scarier Thought

What if they do proceed with coming out with produce which never produce seeds or with plants that TERMINATE grown with "terminator seeds."
And if they win to have only 4 big companies in all of America to control this....think what could happen....

If I was a terrorist and had wanted to Destroy the American people, where could I really hurt them.......they have produced a potential weak spot--
If I bombed even two of these facilities.... many would starve, or we would go broke from importing our produce....or become meat-eaters only...


What if some crazy comes along and lights one on fire-- we then have to fear that we could lose 1/4 of our countries only seeds?

justindemetri
02-13-2007, 08:11 PM
Sometime this year the Norwegian government is set o begin buiding a world seedbank on Svalbard - an arctic archipelago. They hope to preserve seed diversity as well as a precaution against a "doomsday" scenario. Some have dubbed it Noah's Ark.

Here's what they say about GM seeds at The Global Crop Diversity Trust FAQ http://www.croptrust.org/documents/Svalbard%20Q&A.pdf

Will the Svalbard International Seed Vault store GMOs?
GMOs only exist in a few crops, so for now, and for most crops the answer is “No.” The likelihood of their being present in the collections that will sent for storage to Svalbard ranges from zero to miniscule at most. However, some could eventually be stored there. Is it a problem? No matter whether you love, hate or have a neutral attitude towards GMOs, you have to consider that all seed will be stored in sealed aluminium packages, in boxes, behind locked doors, near the North Pole. If there is danger, it would be associated with their use in the environment and the food system, not with their existence in a frozen state in the Seed Vault.

jacqueline
11-02-2007, 01:37 PM
The best way is to obtain seeds from plants yourself at this point......:o