Re: OT: Pinch me ! Scientists prove there is no greenhouse effect. IPCC commits hari kiri (I wish)

James Beck jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx posted to
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In article <%5cwi.560$%Y7.530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
joseph_barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
John Larkin jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx posted to
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:13:28 GMT, Richard The Dreaded
Libertarian <null@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:31:04 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
Joel Kolstad wrote:
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There are bigger problems in the world of food, though, such
as nations that will let their people starve rather than
accepting genetically modified corn which, ok, sure, isn't
going to be the best possible tasting corn out there, but is
still quite palatable and certainly safe.

Which nations ?

GM crops are expensive. Farmers in underdeveloped countries
are quite reasonably wary of a crop that provide no seed for
next year's crop. They may not be able to afford it and
they'll starve far worse if they have no seed at all.

Where in the world did you ever hear this?

Corn _is_ seeds. (which, BTW, is where the concept of the
"tithe" came from - save out 10% of your crop for next year's
seed.)

Many of the gm crops cannot be grown from 2nd generation seed.
The crops are designed to be infertile, to prevent farmers from
buying the seed only once.

John

Which reminds me, Monsanto was suing a bunch of farmers that were
growing normal soy beans and the seed turned out to be "Round-up
Ready" for patent infringement. It seems that it is not as
infertile as pretended. Monsanto lost, but it was a near thing.

They didn't think the product was infertile, where do you think
they get
the seeds from? They make purchasers of the product enter into a
legal agreement not to save seeds.

Jim

I guess it would have been hard to develop that way. But there was
some issue about the pollen not traveling beyond a certain distance
that turned out to be false.
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