GMO crops threaten livelihood of organic farmers
The USDA approved the unregulated release of genetically modified alfalfa, which poses a threat of contamination from one farmer’s land to another’s. And, as Seth Doane reports, the release has organic farmers concerned for their livelihood.
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gmo is garbage!
RE4L72
April 19, 2012 at 9:57 am
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Ganseblumchen12
April 19, 2012 at 10:05 am
GMO is poison. Plain and simple. Will you drop dead if you eat or drink it? Maybe, maybe not but somewhere down the road you’ll begin to notice that something isn’t right with your health so, ask yourself, “Is eating/drinking GMO worth my life?”.
PsychoPsyan
April 19, 2012 at 10:31 am
Post in Facebook, etc. Write your congress. It should be against the law to patent genetic modification. Remove the profit from patents and GMO food will go away. Otherwise we die.
euskenr
April 19, 2012 at 11:28 am
we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMOs, that have never been fully tested and aren’t labeled.-gmofilm.com
Ganseblumchen12
April 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm
USDA liars. We don’t need GE food u bastids. Jst admit your in bed with big corps.
BrokenCapo
April 19, 2012 at 12:35 pm
**Must Watch**
“Genetic Armageddon: Humanity’s Greatest Threat”
Copy and paste this to other videos!
bubbanator1212
April 19, 2012 at 1:16 pm
look at this video and get sick how Monsanto is robbing millions of acres a year from mom and pop farmers
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[ The Future Of Food (2007) ]
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Ithe dam seed from Monsanto’s crop are blow in the wind or eaten and shit out by a bird and even one tenth of one % of a farmers 5000 acres of crops is contaminated they lose the whole crop or thier farm because nothing will kill Monsanto’s seeds or seedlings.
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let alone if these scumbags spray seed from the air at night on purpose…
HoodwinkedbyanAngel
April 19, 2012 at 1:33 pm
you are right this world is run by evil people and their only concern is the dollar, you will get your wish….one day.
gyoussef
April 19, 2012 at 1:50 pm
So why don’t you allow the court to decide then? This is what I have been always telling you, everyone has the right to sue, but not everyone can get what they want.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 2:34 pm
You are mixing up one genus, one species, and one kind of local population. The company is asking for a protection of the gene flow makeup, so that no one can crossbred, no matter accidental or intentional, to acquire the desired modification that the company hold patent of. Now, even with legal actions, even if the company won all through supreme court, even if judges buy all of its arguments, there is no point without definite proportion of the damages and ownerships.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Your arguments are funny. If you are so convinced that you are right, why bother to argue with sheepy heads like me? I never said I am always right, but your arguments are just weak and groundless. If that specific string of modified DNA is part of the patented intellectual property, the company has the legal grounds for a case. On the other hand, if you don’t trust in legal system to find the truth and the grounds of settlements, what’s the point of talking about this?
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 4:05 pm
So, are you saying if someone are rich or successful in business, they should forfeit their constitutional rights to seek for judicial arbitration? If you truly don’t believe in the legal system, what other “weapons” you have to defend yourselves against injustice and “big terrible corporation”?
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 4:11 pm
That’s why it takes years or even decades to certify one single modification. Absent of evidences certainly doesn’t mean no evidences, but without concrete scientific evidences, why should I believe otherwise? In fact, the current E. Coli outbreak in Europe is a perfect example that even nature has something deadly for us. For stupidly believing that the vegetable is fresh and organic, and therefore, eating it raw will be safe has proven to be a perfect deadly disaster.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Not exactly the same. But I would imagine the company will try to block selling or reproduction of a specific modified gene implant, despite the fact that part of the geno has been proliferated unintentionally. Why are you keep forgetting that this will go to court? It is up to the court to decide where the middle ground lied. Not you, not I.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 5:22 pm
It isn’t as simple as one pollinate another, so the other cannot be planted or sold. Every case has to go through court and the patent office to determine if there is enough DNA evidences to suggest copied technologies or patent infringement. Ultimately, every successful technological research company has some sort of over zealous approach to copy right & patent defense and market dominate position. But if new technologies appear and they fail to catch on, they will fail too.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Fair point. But I still don’t understand how protecting companies’ own patent is monopolization. Not only the case is still waiting for a trial, even if the company successfully win the case all the way to the supreme court, even if the company won all claimed of their argument, all that meant are limited damage claims and an ownership to a specific string of DNA specifically modified to the company’s patented DNA map. And all are big IF.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
I don’t know what plain you are in. But can you decide on support the big companies or not? or Are you supporting taking someone or some companies’ constitutional rights to have a fair trial? or Are you claiming that patent cannot help in promoting scientific and economic progresses?
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Lol. High energy price will increase the price of the agricultural products enough to push a third of the global population into economic starvation. And you are worrying about stupid patent issues. Lol.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 7:23 pm
If your shoes look like mines, of course I am going to sue you for copy rights and patents infringement. Shoes are different from plants. There is no landmark case to prove that pollination without human intentional involvement can lead to a patent infringement. The US is running by common laws system, everyone can sue, but not every sue can become a case, and definitely not every company can win.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 7:29 pm
I am just not waving my arms and worrying some “crisis” that simply doesn’t exist. I think people should worry about salt, sugar, and fat more before they worry some monsters created in a lab that will end up on their dinner tables.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Farmers can always choose common seeds from seed farmers or buy seeds from other GMO food companies or continue to use self reproducing varieties. Beside, even if someone can patent a singular string of modified DNA, they still cannot dominate a species or preventing someone from buying imports. To think that some how, big corporation can corner the entire food market is non-sense.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I just don’t see the point why a company or any individual can’t defend the commercial values of their creations. We have judges and lawyers in the US, so it isn’t up to you or me to decide if there are legal grounds or not.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 8:52 pm
So? This is America and everyone is suing each other. The point is GMO companies owned the genetic makeup of their products, agreed by the Patent Office, and they are entitled to defend the commercial value of their properties with legal and reasonable means.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Commercial farmers don’t “seed” their crops anymore. There are seed farms to do that. Lol. If it doesn’t work, no one will buy it, then where is the “monopolization” coming from? As I know of, most GMO plants have their reproductive gene retarded.
mercedescl
April 19, 2012 at 10:05 pm