France Bans All GMO Cultivation

Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 11 months ago to Business
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The French National Assembly has made a sweeping declaration with a new bill, effective immediately. No more genetically modified crops.

On Tuesday, the French lower house of parliament adopted a law immediately banning cultivation of any GMO corn, due to environmental safety concerns.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 11 months ago
    This is the same France that is denounced here as an enemy of productive people and safe haven of moochers? (See on the Gulch here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/5f...) You cannot have it both ways unless you can explain one or the other as an exception to a rule. That explanation would have be causal, citing trends within French political culture.

    As for the claim that Nature does not do this or does do that, what animal flies like an airplane? Where is the automobile in nature? Where is the aniline process?
    "In 1888, Friedrich Reinitzer (1858–1927) discovered the liquid crystalline nature of cholesterol extracted from carrots (that is, two melting points and generation of colors) and published his findings at a meeting of the Vienna Chemical Society on May 3, 1888 (F. Reinitzer: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Cholesterins, Monatshefte für Chemie (Wien) 9, 421–441 (1888)" -- History of the liquid crystal display: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crys...

    I mean, really, what is "un-natural" cannot exist. That which exists is natural. Magnetism exists. AlNiCo magnets are not found growing wild in a so-called "natural state". The list is as long as human inventiveness...
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    • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago
      Yes, France, like the USA has some good and some bad. Fortunately, we get the option of accepting the good and rejecting the bad. The case against Monsanto's specific Roundup GMO is growing almost as fast as the corn. We'd have to read the bill itself to see if it includes all GMO's or just some specific instances.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 11 months ago
    Respectfully - you both are missing the point. "Natural" genetic changes isn't GMO. Nature doesn't do things like combine a salmon with an insect. Nature doesn't make a corn that survives Roundup. Brand recognition is valid but doesn't apply here. I can choose between yellow or red tomatoes without having to deal with GMO. That's always been the case.

    I used to be neutral on GMO until I really looked into its history and methods. In general: GMO often equals glyphosates. You don't want it.

    And, it will never get banned in America. I bank on that...
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 11 months ago
      An apple a day keeps the natural foods fanatics away. Read here the common facts: "In the wild, apples grow readily from seeds. However, like most perennial fruits, apples are ordinarily propagated asexually by grafting. This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting DNA from their parents to create a new apple with those characteristics, they are instead significantly different from their parents.[42] Triploid varieties have an additional reproductive barrier in that 3 sets of chromosomes cannot be divided evenly during meiosis, yielding unequal segregation of the chromosomes (aneuploids). Even in the case when a triploid plant can produce a seed (apples are an example), it occurs infrequently, and seedlings rarely survive.[43] Because apples do not breed true when planted as seeds, grafting is generally used to produce new apple trees. " -- Wikipedia on "Apples" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 9 years, 11 months ago
    And how do they distinguish between genetic modification which is done by man, and genetic modification which occurs naturally?
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  • Posted by SRS66East 9 years, 11 months ago
    I think that legislation is unnecessary. Does anyone remember why individual strains of a crop have their own names e.g. truckers favorite yellow corn? Brand recognition, that way consumers could recognize what strain they liked and which they didn't, thereby allowing them to vote with their dollars for or against a product. If a product gets too few votes it becomes unprofitable to produce and slowly vanishes. Capitalism at work, why do we allow governments to make the decisions we could and should make for ourselves? The answer is simple society is getting lazier and lazier.
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