Author Topic: The World According To Monsanto  (Read 266 times)

OoBYCoO

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Re: The World According To Monsanto
« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2012, 08:17:03 PM »
The better, nicer, less evil, version of Monsanto <http://www.cibus.com/about.php> 

"Cibus technology produces changes within a plant species that could only occur in nature"

"RTDSā„¢ operates exclusively within the genome of the plant, just like normal plant breeding, and thus eliminates environmental and health risks as well as other unintended and unknown consequences associated with GMO crops."


I have a friend working in their research department, I don't normally go searching for genetic biotech companies looking to change the status quo...
off to bigger and better things - don't worry I will visit from time to time

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Re: The World According To Monsanto
« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2012, 06:16:03 AM »
Damn fuck. Toady needs a new sound card, he can't watch the videos yet.

Lol at the question 'you on tizanidine again?'

That stuff is a fantastic sleep aid. Nonaddictive, although yes with continuous and especially on higher doses it can cause a really nasty noradrenergic pressor rebound but its nothing like a GABA drug addiction or rebound. plug a dose and it work as a BRILLIANT potentiator of opioids, turns a codeine high into a nod worthy of Morpheus himself.

Toady until days ago had a permanent repeat RX for 120x2mg (QDS) and 4mg tablets TDS daily. He just got taken off it by his doc (at his request mind you) per day, he just talked him into switching him from tizanidine to clonidine, which he was on many years ago, and which works better for him, the longer action of clonidine compared to tizanidine enables just TDS dosing, although he intends to persuade the good dr to titrate him up to 5xdaily. micron filtering and shooting just 0.125mcg...SLOOOW IV push with his oxycontin 40s (he is tolerant to quite a significant degree to both alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonists and opioids, an opioid naive user should NOT attempt a 40mg dose with clonidine IV, although using the clonidine per os, once he tries both alone, and seperately, then IV oxy, and separately IV clonidine. Use no more than 0.125mcg of clonidine at first, then work up to 0.25mcg carefully, remembering to administer it via slow IV push rather than sudden bolus in order to avoid A-wasting a nod, and B-just suddenly knocking oneself out cold. Remember also that clonidine is a POWERFUL hypotensive agent, and to do it lying down or propped up a bit in bed, don't do it standing up in case it drops BP so much that you fall down and hurt yourself, maybe with the needle still in your arm.

Monsanto are pure fucking evil. SOME of the technologies are noxious, greed-driven malicious inventions, wrought by the hand of Satan, with the tools of hell, published in the language of misery in the journals.

Such as 'terminator seeds/strains' intended to force poor farmers to keep buying their seeds from monsanto, and even greedier, forcing them not only to buy Monsanto seeds, but to then purchase an activator product to activate the genes that allow the seeds to germinate.

Terminator strains should only, IMO, have a place in experimental development and culture of high-risk genes. Targeted knockdown of the genes for pollen production in something along the lines of an experimental farm plot of weedkiller resistance genes, or crops expressing BT toxin, that confers a bacterial insecticidal toxin in order to kill predators, gene transfer of that to weeds and wildflowers that are essential food products for pollinators like bees, butterflies and moths etc.; if that gets loose, it could literally drop a nuke into the food chain, and wreck entire ecosystems.

But forcing the poor to buy expensive proprietary seeds, and then once again to buy the activator compound(s) out of greed? Monsanto should not be the ones to be in control of these technologies.

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Re: The World According To Monsanto
« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2012, 06:49:11 AM »
For the people able to read german i have a great book tip connected with the thematic:
"Wenzels Pilz" (pilz=mushroom) from the author bernhard kegel, a great science fiction roman about the very near future (hell, the whole plot could have played like 10,20 years ago, so much less sci-fi is it) about the whole change (even if its so small one can barely notice it) the world has gone through after transgenetic organism become common, its purely fascinating and very scientific as the author is a Dr. himself.
Its really no deep thrill behind the story, very neat yet fascinating, my english is not able to explain it well enough but maybe inbetween someone has translated it?
"It's like the drug trip I saw when I was on that drug trip!"

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Re: The World According To Monsanto
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2012, 06:39:00 PM »
Stand-off looms over U.S. plans to cut GMO crop oversight
by Charles Abbott and Carey Gillam

(Reuters) - Efforts to write benefits for biotech seed companies into U.S. legislation, including the new Farm Bill, are sparking a backlash from groups that say the multiple measures would severely limit U.S. oversight of genetically modified crops.

From online petitions to face-to-face lobbying on Capitol Hill, an array of consumer and environmental organizations and individuals are ringing alarm bells over moves they say will eradicate badly needed safety checks on crops genetically modified to withstand herbicides, pests and pesticides.

Article continues here: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/17/us-usa-agriculture-biotech-idINBRE86G0XF20120717