Monsanto’s Superweeds Saga Is Only Getting Worse
Interesting, this is something I have always asked, what happens when they start chopping up the environment to where only specific crops will grow with specif sprays? Superweeds would seem to follow super bacteria that resulted from similar over use of antibiotics.
"Super weeds" will eventually occur whenever any herbicide is used on any crop. This is simply a result of natural selection where any survivors will propagate and their offspring are more likely to have the same resistance.
Just because someone plants a bean that's inherently resistant to a herbicide doesn't mean that other plants (weeds) growing next to it will become resistant as well. That's just stupid.
It's the process of using a single herbicide over and over and over again that selectively breeds the stronger weed - Not the evil GMO ......
But even this Leftist article says its the occasional farmer who illegally sprays the dicamba that might be floating into another farmer's field. How is that Monsanto's doing? You have individual farmers breaking the law and potentially destroying other people's property as well.
I guess Monsanto has developed mind control as well. Maybe they deliver their Evil messages over cell phone emissions. Or maybe they're using the power lines above the farmer's houses. Oh I know, they're using Chemtrails...
It's nothing but negligence and acts of criminal damage by individual farmers, not the Evil Corporation. These criminal acts can, and should be addressed on a case by case basis by the local authorities.
This is supposed to be a Libertarian site. It's absolutely amazing how many readers are jumping right on the "Blame the Evil Corporation" band wagon.
And no one is forcing anyone to plant the Evil GMO seeds. If a neighbor is killing your beans by spraying his weeds, he is legally at fault. Not the Evil Corporation Monsanto ...... Period.
Blaming Monsanto for the neglectful / malicious acts of individuals is like blaming the gun manufacturers for people getting shot. Or like blaming the car manufacturer for someone driving their car down the wrong side of the road. It's like, to use your example, blaming the blue paint manufacturer for the over spray onto the white house next door.
You say: "I do not see any concrete evidence to prove it does not have tertiary effects" Well, it's impossible to prove a negative. The burden on any accuser is to prove what specific harm(s) is being done because there is no possible way to prove everything it's not doing.
Also, dozens of complaints (with no proof of any wrong doing) across multiple states does not constitute a huge number of people. Where would the world be if we stopped every development simply because "maybe" people will use it wrong and the number of complaints will get out of hand? Some people may want to live in medieval times where anything new or misunderstood is looked at as evil but I don't. If it can be proven Monsanto has committed some actual act of harm then it should be dealt with accordingly. But all these "what if's", "maybe's", "might's", "could be's", etc. serve no practical purpose other than attempting to vilify the Evil Corporations.
Also: "Federal regulators have yet to approve the new dicamba-based weed killer Monsanto formulated to pair with its dicamba-resistant GMO soybeans. But that apparently hasn’t stopped some desperate farmers from spraying dicamba anyway. Because the chemical has a nasty tendency to drift to neighboring fields, Monsanto’s new GMO crops aren’t only upending the natural order, they appear to be upending the social order in tight-knit farming communities too: Neighbors are accusing neighbors of illegally spraying dicamba and killing off crops that haven’t been engineered to tolerate the chemical."
As far as tertiary effects, I would submit to you the example of DDT, which manifested itself in the CA Condor saga, but also effected livestock and humans. Would it comfort you to know that after you are dying of cancer, that is later found to be a result of the both the chemical and gene manipulation by Monsanto, (who then goes Bankrupt to protect itself from lawsuits) which could have been prevented by due diligence?
Development is fine, and needed, irresponsible development is not. There is a long history of issues with the byproducts and unintended results of both manufacturing and and advances in chemcals and mining. Corporations, as well as Government, can equally do evil acts knowing they risk peoples lives and livelihoods. Just because they are a corporation does not imbue them with a capitalist shield of integrity. Accountability is not a strong point in our system and over the last 100 years the legal system has been systemically sabotaged so as to be inert. Your options are few and far between to protect yourself.
http://www.naturalnews.com/054840_bio...
Not to mention the ethanol scam and who got rich off of that while food prices went up 30%.
Whatever a human does is considered as artificial. Nothing that a human can do including creating new chemical compounds is outside of the natural. Humans are part of nature regardless of religious or philosophical beliefs.
You can try to get around nature in some way that is not natural but will get your irrational face slapped. Take the dandelion which many people hate. If I don't want to use some 'artificial' pesticide, I can hand dig them or just keep them and mow the lawn very short so that the dandelions only grow very close to the ground and not very noticeable as was stored in their DNA. What is the difference between the artificial fight with them than letting them be natural? As natural they are undesirable to many and as artificial they are loved by many. I usually just dose them with WeedBeGone when I am tired of playing with them.
It is forced in your vernacular if anything has the hand of man in it. Remember there is nothing that can exist that can not be a natural existent of existence. A separate creation in some so called Garden of Eden will not make humans into non-members of nature. So called natural methods have killed millions, one case in evidence is using more natural methods in preventing malaria has killed tens or hundreds of millions. Natural treatments of disease have resulted in millions of deaths.
Most more natural products are just another means of picking your pocket while making you feel good about it.
The same goes for poison pesticides and herbicides and monsantocides.
It might be good to put that 'allopathic medicine' thing to rest since it is just a pejorative term from long ago to disparage non-homeopathic medicine, i.e., modern medicine. If you have studied any biochemistry, you will find that things are not as simple as you may think they are.
In my case, I use aspirin and a platelet inhibitor, a beta blocker, and a statin which together statistically reduce the absolute chance of a repeat heart attack from about 3% to 1 1/2% in an individual male. That for a population would that would be a 50% relative decrease. Do I quit taking them because they are treating and causing some symptoms only reducing the absolute risk by 1 1/2 percentage points? My main problem is more with medicare which doctors seem to believe requires a $500+ wellness exam yearly to be paid by the taxpayers. I tried opting out, since the doctor had seen me several times during the year. He kept after me to have the exam, even threatening to no longer prescribe the heart medication. So I took the exam and he added a physical exam for another $300 which caused a new deductible payment. That was my second run in with medicare. Back in the 60s and early 70s I tried to opt out of medicare by not paying self employment tax. Got a nasty letter in large print threatening prison if I did not pay up back tax.
I will continue taking those 'allopathic' drugs because survival is somewhat better than without.
As far as I can tell, since doctors are now insulated from cost and profit, they, unless asked, will prescribe what their training recommends as the best treatment drugs. I asked for all generic drugs and lucked out that they were available. It is mainly what the market will bare that will determine prices and as long as there is a government provided monopoly, which is the only kind of monopoly that can be sustained without being broken by competition, initial prices for new drugs will remain very high mainly to recoup development costs and some future research.
When we moved to the small village in 1955 that I am in now there were 750 people. Water and sewer for 50,000 gallons was $8 a year and now is $90 a quarter of a year before the the cost of water is added. The rescue squad and fire department were free and completely voluntary with funds raised by the members and the fire trucks paid for by the village and for the fire department volunteers got $5 per call. But over the years the village boards have found that the rescue squad could be a money maker so the volunteers are still unpaid but the village treasury gets about $600 per call for the truck. Now there is little fund raising and a lot of complaints by members though that is decreasing as memories lose stuff about how it used to be. I can not understand how things seemed better when there was less prosperity than it is now. Can't just be inflation, can it?
I get your philosophical argument and it's semantics.
My point was that these bacteria are natural and have a natural beneficial effect whereas pesticides and herbicides might be made of natural constituents but nature would have never combined them in that way. It is clear, they do harm to the body...in my words as the author, are not natural.
On Diego Garcia and Catalina islands species were introduced to control predators. Rattle snakes that had drifted over on trees and branches from storms and brown snakes from Guam to go after rats left from passing ships. in Dago G. The catalina snakes were controlled finally by pigs and one other species the brown snakes by trapping. Each brought their own solution and thier own problems. Catalina now has only buffalo as non native but the rats in the Chagos Archipelago varous islands still dine on the former native bird populations.
Back to Panama the zone had an active malaria abatement program with light oil sprayed on puddles of water after rain anopholes mosquito larva seemed to grow out of nowhere. After the US left malaria returned as the funds left to continue the program were stolen by government offiicials. Things seemed to have changed for the better down there but it sure proved the resiliency of certain species. Finally ships would anchor for a day or two in the lake to kill off zebra mussels in an attempt to keep them out of the Pacific. That method seemed to work ok.
Didn't they fight malaria in the Canal zone with DDT or did that come too late and later withdrawn for somewhat environmental and Silent Spring reasons?
"2015 Was the Hottest Year Ever, and 2016 Is Already Even Hotter"
There is grovelling praise for wind power and there is yet another technological breakthru on 'carbon capture' to fight climate change.
The RV aspect give you an escape route as we often term our sailing vessels and it would leave you with no house to dispose of later and perhaps some benefit in property taxes. Depending on where you are local zoning and zillion other items. Something to think of. who know what might come with a sale such as that in the way of farm equipment, tool shed, work shop etc.
Absent the horses or similar. I found ditching owning any property, especially a house was money in my pocket a huge savings on a lot of extra costs.most of which revolved around the word 'house.' It set me up for go just about anywhere, live just about anywhere and my permanent official residence is in a no income tax state. Most of my US buying is through Amazon and i do watch not only delivery costs but those who do not add sales tax.
I solved the income tax problems using Turbo Tax which immediately put an extra thousand twohundred plus a year in my pocket. but can't get away completely from Medicare as it's a condition of militiary retirement with military medical . Both of which add up to not much so far except a $1200 a dollar a year expense which means no paying for flu shots ha ha where "I'm at any one resident or tourist can get those at no charge.
In aniy case it's think outside the box. How many acres do you need for the seven assuming you do not have to produce the hay and straw. and feed. Seven stalls and a spare is eight on a side. That truck will come oin handy for hauling manure or you get someone to come get it who has a spreader Lot off off the cuff trading goes on in the small farm world. Talk to FFA kids.
Now she's getting itchy feet and thinking RV but since she hasn't retired no hurry. That is Florida homestead land and low on property taxes. No room for horses but a pool and 'alligators anyone?' Good ole Duval County
Maybe we can get some super poison IVY you cannot kill. Please refer tot he sweet wonderful creation of the Gypsie Moth....Hoorah I guess we need more scientists screwing with DNA...
While Alien Ressurection, and The Fly and The Thing, and Swamp Creature, may be fiction. Considering Human nature the outcome is not really fiction.
The light brightens as she discovers ....eight males all looking quite human. Especiallythe look in their eyes. Number Four the leader rasped, I believe you won first place.
Does she scream? if like the book Does she look overjoyed and instantly .... mmmmmmmm
So I'm to be the Matriarch of Mars she calmly voices. 'whose in charge of supper and whose doing the dishes? .....Number Four come with me. I will teach you about garbage dumps.