Sal's comments on GMOs

Anita Graf (agraf@agecon.uga.edu)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:24:48 EST5EDT

Sal, thank you very much for condencing the whole GMO issue so well
and making it as clear as possible why this is something we should
all be worried about even at the "smallest" levels. Maybe a lack of
a college education helps one to see some things less encumbered
sometimes, I don't know. I do have a college education, but I sure
want to thank you for making things "simple." It takes a very bright
person to accurately put forth an idea in the simplist way possible.
I didn't need any SAS code to figure out that what you are saying
makes sense.

Today at lunch I heard someone in my department make the comment, "I
just take it for granted that after 30 you get fat, and after 60 you
get dentures!!" (She was irritated at her mother for not giving in
to "reality" and getting her problematic teeth removed and replaced
with dentures.) I wonder what sort of "facts" will be taken for
granted in the age of GMOs...?

Anita

> ok ok I do not have a college education so to me I have to make things
> simple. I understand Dale when he said "The practical matter is that
> European public officials must decide on
> tolerances. Trying to stick to zero will paralyze the system. I have heard
> that the officials are dithering on this issue because of conflicting
> political pressures.
>
> but as I understand these GMOs spread like cancer. if you have .001 one year
> soon you will have .01 then .1 then 1% and so on. so you have to have zero
> tolerance or your place on earth will have no non GMO soon like us here in
> the USA.
> now we are lucky we can test and find the smallest amount of these GMOs. so
> if a bird doesn't shit it out or a bee does not carry the pollen or a boat
> or truck does not have a few grains left of the floor or someone does not
> bring it in in their luggage etc. we can maybe stop the cancer from
> spreading to the whole body. in just a short time already we expect
> contamination in the USA. remember this was made in a lab. it is not like
> the killer bee that is a gene from mom and dad this is a gene added and in a
> short time already expected to contaminate .001 man next year they will tell
> us the .01 in expectable and on and on till there is no more non GMOS. it
> is a cancer that was made in a lab spread by companies and all with the help
> of the USDA. I guess this is what the folks met in the public comments "the
> genie has been let out of the bottle or no use closing the barn door after
> the cows got out" labels will not do any good. every will that does not
> want to be one of the white mice will need a test kit. no only will these
> genes go with the corn but as you can see they will contaminate the wheat
> and weeds and on and on. some of the genes like fish gene in veg. and
> scorpion poison in veg. will soon be spreading out to the whole earth. they
> are changing life on earth as we know it. I know the killer bee is a NON
> GMO but watching it spread and seeing that the USDA can not stop it (these
> bees just killed a man down the street from me) all the way from South
> America to Ca. they will not be about to stop the living GMOs they are
> making in the lab today.
>
> the point of all this
> you places that don't have any GMO;s test test test and don't except any
> percent of the cancer because a little bit will spread. and you poor
> organic growers in the USA the USDA has killed off organic growing . forget
> about it. they make a rule no GMOs allowed for organic growers then
> release on the public GMO's that the organic farmer has no control over and
> soon no more organic . they make a law and kill u with the law they make.
> they have not only taken over the word organic but have destroyed it.
> there is no one to protect organic growing only burden those trying to
> protect life on earth while letting the contaminators prosper.
>

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