Subject: Re: [drugwar] durned guvmint causing corporate criminality again Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:44:46 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong I'm not clear what the implications of this are supposed to be . First , there's that big "IF" word . IF people in this group accepted all the horror stories about the direct consumption of all the "some Drugs" .. there would be no group . On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:55:52 -0400, Preston Peet wrote: >=A0http://www.counterpunch.com/bigwood08232003.html > >=A0August 23, 2003 >=A0The Toxic War on Drugs >=A0GM Crop Weed Killer Linked to Powerful Fungus >=A0By JEREMY BIGWOOD ... > If true, these >=A0allegations not only call into question the world's number one= weed killer, >=A0but they also jeopardize the world's acceptance of Monsanto's= flagship line >=A0of genetically-engineered "Roundup Ready" crops. Obviously true . It's a free market and farmers will drop in a season a product that reduces the value of their crop . ... >=A0Monsanto's Dr. Harvey Glick disagrees: "Roundup is almost 30= years old and >=A0scientists have been looking at all aspects of its use for at= least that >=A0long. So there is a tremendous amount of information available.= And that is >=A0why there is such a high level of confidence that the use of= Roundup, based >=A0on all of this earlier work, does not have any negative impacts= on soil >=A0microbes... And a lot of it has been published." ... >=A0Dr. Kremer found ... enhanced Fusarium >=A0colonies in the roots of his plants, which could potentially= reduce the >=A0harvest, he did not find it in the harvested soybeans= themselves. Even so, >=A0he expressed concern about what this accumulation of Fusarium= in the soil >=A0could lead to. You can be sure farmers contemplating shelling out the money= for Roundup-Ready seed will be following this research closely and= checking their own crops for any signs of trouble , and monitoring the= markets to see if there is any impact on the market value of their crops . On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:57:54 -0400, Elmer Elevator wrote: Re: [drugwar] Monsanto's cornucopia of nifty synthetic= biochemicals for tomorrow -- today >=A0If you drank milk =A0today, or ate cottage cheese or cream cheese= or butter, but didn't pay the 50 =A0cents extra to make sure your= cow wasn't dosed on bST, your cow was almost =A0certainly dosed on= bST. So it makes a $.50 ( at retail ) difference in production . Rather significant fraction . >=A0Because POSILAC benefits large and small =A0herds alike, it can= play a critical role in helping farmers with limited =A0resources= here and around the world. The use of supplemental bST allows= dairy =A0farmers to produce more milk with fewer cows, thereby= providing dairy farmers =A0with additional economic security as= well as providing related environmental =A0benefits. --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm