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Forget Banks - GMOs Are The New "Too Big To Fail' System
Authored by Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, originally posted at The NY Times,
Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and unsustainable, contrary to the near ubiquitous analyses at the time.
Now, there is something vastly riskier facing us, with risks that entail the survival of the global ecosystem — not the financial system. This time, the fight is against the current promotion of genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s.
Our critics held that the financial system was improved thanks to the unwavering progress of science and technology, which had blessed finance with more sophisticated economic insight. But the “tail risks,” or the effect from rare but monstrously consequential events, we held, had been increasing, owing to increasing complexity and globalization. Given that almost nobody was paying attention to the risks, we set ourselves and our clients to be protected from an eventual collapse of the banking system, which subsequently happened to the benefit of those who were prepared.
The fallacies used in the arguments against us at the time were as follows:
First, we were said to be “against science.” Our adversaries invoked consensus among economists in favor of these methods, a serious fallacy. Had science operated solely by consensus, we would still be stuck in the Middle Ages. According to scientific practice, scientific consensus is used in telling us what theory is wrong; it cannot determine what is right. Nor can it apply to risk management, which requires much greater scrutiny.
Second, we faced the argument that “more technology is invariably better,” a corruption of the notion of progress. In fact, only a small minority of technologies end up sticking; most fail because of some flaw identified over time.
Third, we were told that had ideas such as ours prevailed in the past, they would have hindered risk-taking. Yet, the first rule of risk-taking is to not cross the street blindfolded.
Fourth, toxic financial exposures were deemed to be “safe,” according to primitive risk models. But Fannie Mae went bust exactly because of overconfidence in its bad models (and, incidentally, after its bailout, appears to use the same risk models).
Fifth, the system kept relying on “predictions,” not noticing that the past track record of predictions by central bankers and economists can be used to make astrologists look good. Yet the entire economic system rested on these flimsy predictions — while we were advocating a system that had isolated parts to withstand prediction errors.
We were repeatedly told that there was evidence that the system was stable, that we were in “the Great Moderation,” a common practice that mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. For the financial system to be viable, the solution is for it to resemble the restaurant business: decentralized, with mistakes that stay local and that cannot bring down the entire apparatus.
As we said, the financial system nearly collapsed, but it was only money.
We now find ourselves facing nearly the same five fallacies for our caution against the growth in popularity of G.M.O.s.
First, there has been a tendency to label anyone who dislikes G.M.O.s as anti-science — and put them in the anti-antibiotics, antivaccine, even Luddite category. There is, of course, nothing scientific about the comparison. Nor is the scholastic invocation of a “consensus” a valid scientific argument.
Interestingly, there are similarities between arguments that are pro-G.M.O. and snake oil, the latter having relied on a cosmetic definition of science. The charge of “therapeutic nihilism” was leveled at people who contested snake oil medicine at the turn of the 20th century. (At that time, anything with the appearance of sophistication was considered “progress.”)
Second, we are told that a modified tomato is not different from a naturally occurring tomato. That is wrong: The statistical mechanism by which a tomato was built by nature is bottom-up, by tinkering in small steps (as with the restaurant business, distinct from contagion-prone banks). In nature, errors stay confined and, critically, isolated.
Third, the technological salvation argument we faced in finance is also present with G.M.O.s, which are intended to “save children by providing them with vitamin-enriched rice.” The argument’s flaw is obvious: In a complex system, we do not know the causal chain, and it is better to solve a problem by the simplest method, and one that is unlikely to cause a bigger problem.
Fourth, by leading to monoculture — which is the same in finance, where all risks became systemic — G.M.O.s threaten more than they can potentially help. Ireland’s population was decimated by the effect of monoculture during the potato famine. Just consider that the same can happen at a planetary scale.
Fifth, and what is most worrisome, is that the risk of G.M.O.s are more severe than those of finance. They can lead to complex chains of unpredictable changes in the ecosystem, while the methods of risk management with G.M.O.s — unlike finance, where some effort was made — are not even primitive.
The G.M.O. experiment, carried out in real time and with our entire food and ecological system as its laboratory, is perhaps the greatest case of human hubris ever. It creates yet another systemic, “too big too fail” enterprise - but one for which no bailouts will be possible when it fails.
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OK LET'S EAT DAMMIT!
Ever get the feeling they actually want to genetically modify humans?
Which way, through miscegenation, or extraterrestrial hybrids?
GMO stories are one of those things where I find myself horribly out of step. I hear the outrage about GMOs and all the havoc it could cause someday and I keep thinking.... yeah, but sudden colony collapse in honey bees is REAL RIGHT NOW TODAY, and getting worse fast. And nobody knows why it's happening.
I guess I'm just weird that I wonder about stuff like this much more than the currently en vogue GMO debate.
They're probably related. GMOs + pesticides = bee die off.
that's true...
but like vaccines, - for most people, like ^98%
GMOs are just fine.
It's like nut allergies... or "gluten" which people are needlessly scared of {although avoiding processed wheat/bread is not necessarily a bad idea for various reasons} - unless you have an *allergy* - you're gonna be just fine.
People would be much better served worrying about the amount of sugar they consume.
Much, much better served.
Beat me to it
But moar like all the high fucktose corn syrup.
Not to worry however cause the sun is going into another Maunder Minimum and plunge the Earth into a mini-ice age soon that will kill all crops and most humans
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-w...
But what a bunch of fucking bullshit!
Another scare too get all you holier than thou pure in body and mind assholes to pay 10 times more for "organic" food that's really GMO anyway
Now go drink your bottled water that's really tap water from Detroit you fucking idiots.
Its about how that modified organisum is broken down by the body, what are the byproducts, how does it effect cell growth and other such things at the most basic level. Thing is nature never intended it so your body hasn't evolved, addapted to digest those things. Can you eat a plastic toy, sure you can even make it taste edible but dont go trying to live on it.
Same with GMOs, they aren't created for you to live on they are created to sell into a market at a profit. Big difference.
Spiders silk and milk are vary alike but one you have adapted to eat the other you have not.
Pesticides are genetically "implanted" in vegetation. How is that not bad for bees?
No GMO's are not fine for all but 5% with allergies. Did you pull that number out of your ass? The correlation between Roundup usage and 21 deadly diseases has a greater than 95% correlation.
True, correlation is not causation, so to prove the case against GMO's, volunteer your kid for a controlled experiment with measured exposures to glyphosates and GMO food to see if your kid gets cancers, diabetes, autism, etc.
Feel lucky? Bet your kids.
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Journal of Organic Systems, 9(2), 2014 ORIGINAL PAPER
Genetically engineered crops, glyphosate and the deterioration of health in the United States of America
Nancy L. Swanson1, Andre Leu2*, Jon Abrahamson3 and Bradley Wallet4 1 Abacus Enterprises, Lummi Island, WA, USA 2 International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements, Bonn, Germany 3 Abacus Enterprises, Lummi Island, WA, USA 4 Crustal Imaging Facility, Conoco Phillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, USA * Corresponding author: andreleu.al@gmail.com
Abstract A huge increase in the incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases has been reported in the United States (US) over the last 20 years. Similar increases have been seen globally. The herbicide glyphosate was introduced in 1974 and its use is accelerating with the advent of herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered (GE) crops. Evidence is mounting that glyphosate interferes with many metabolic processes in plants and animals and glyphosate residues have been detected in both. Glyphosate disrupts the endocrine system and the balance of gut bacteria, it damages DNA and is a driver of mutations that lead to cancer.
In the present study, US government databases were searched for GE crop data, glyphosate application data and disease epidemiological data. Correlation analyses were then performed on a total of 22 diseases in these time-series data sets. The Pearson correlation coefficients are highly significant (< 10-5) between glyphosate applications and hypertension (R = 0.923), stroke (R = 0.925), diabetes prevalence (R = 0.971), diabetes incidence (R = 0.935), obesity (R = 0.962), lipoprotein metabolism disorder (R = 0.973), Alzheimer’s (R = 0.917), senile dementia (R = 0.994), Parkinson's (R = 0.875), multiple sclerosis (R = 0.828), autism (R = 0.989), inflammatory bowel disease (R = 0.938), intestinal infections (R = 0.974), end stage renal disease (R = 0.975), acute kidney failure (R = 0.978), cancers of the thyroid (R = 0.988), liver (R = 0.960), bladder (R = 0.981), pancreas (R = 0.918), kidney (R = 0.973) and myeloid leukaemia (R = 0.878).
The Pearson correlation coefficients are highly significant (< 10-4) between the percentage of GE corn and soy planted in the US and hypertension (R = 0.961), stroke (R = 0.983), diabetes prevalence (R = 0.983), diabetes incidence (R = 0.955), obesity (R = 0.962), lipoprotein metabolism disorder (R = 0.955), Alzheimer’s (R = 0.937), Parkinson's (R = 0.952), multiple sclerosis (R = 0.876), hepatitis C (R = 0.946), end stage renal disease (R = 0.958), acute kidney failure (R = 0.967), cancers of the thyroid (R = 0.938), liver (R = 0.911), bladder (R = 0.945), pancreas (R = 0.841), kidney (R = 0.940) and myeloid leukaemia (R = 0.889). The significance and strength of the correlations show that the effects of glyphosate and GE crops on human health should be further investigated.
I heard a theory about cell phone frequencies... sounds interesting at least. Either way, load up on honey now. It doesn't rot and has a lot of nutritional value. 'Coz ya know, no one is giving up there cell phones or GMO'S for some stupid bees.
To consider: http://arizonahoneymarket.com/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/
God says:
Where is that guy D'jean Splicer. He was all about the g'mod seeds.
I say don't fuck with mother nature.
Nearly everything cultivated in agriculture is GMO.... the important fact to notice is that this has been going on for millenia through selective breeding and hybrid fertilization. The vegetables you eat today labelled GMO have almost nothing in common with their "natural" ancestors. Modern GMO techniques are just a lot more precise in targeting specific genome modifications to desired traits.
This is not an endorsement of either camp on GMO foods, but merely a caution to open your eyes. If you dislike modern GMO foods but happily eat stuff that has been modified for centuries by selective hybridization through crossbreeding, you really are just being a knee-jerk "anti-science" pawn.
Note that some of these ancient grains recently embraced by the health food community are less "modified" than staples like corn. Go enjoy a bowl of spelt and quinoa.
It's obvious you failed biology 101.
There is a world of difference between selective breeding of naturally occuring genotypes and splicing treefrog DNA into tomatos.
In case you ask ...Why?
Because treefrog DNA DOESN'T BELONG in tomatos.
That's why.
Wow... That explains the loud chirping I keep doing out in the yard..
You mean the time released chirping you keep doing out in the yard.
Nature would never put the genes of an octopus into a carrot.
Human genes in GMO rice. It's people!
The rice with human genes | Daily Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.../The-rice-human-genes.ht... Daily MailMar 6, 2007 - The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice, developed by ...
Soylent green... Dear god.
"Nature would never put the genes of an octopus into a carrot."
On the other hand, I heard a rumour Bill Clinton tried to put a carrot's genes into Monica Lewinsky ...
Silly rabbit. It was a cigar.
the difference is that centuries of selective breeding allowed for centuries to figure out when something went wrong.
now we're supposed to trust some pseudo science which is nowhere near controlling all the variables of such a complex system. And the assorted unintended consequences. Which, damn, they always show up, don't they?
What you wrote is bullshit, Choke. Selectic breeding and hybridization is not even related to genetic modifications induced by splicing pesticides into the germ plasma, DNA, replicating code, whatever you want to call it, of a plant. When said plant grows, it is then drenched with the pesticide because it can't be killed by virtue of the fact that the pesticide is part of the DNA code. DUH...why do people with your level of understanding on a subject like this so enjoy talking out your ass?
BTW, I have been injecting reombinant DNA for about 30 years now, so that science technique keeps me alive. I don't have anything against the method as long as it is not used to prduce a toxic food supply. Human insulin is avilable because it is produced using combinant DNA methods, whereas previously people injected insulin extracted from pigs to stay alive.
hybridization does not equal a foreign gene introduced.
spiders & goats.
sheep & jellyfish.
on & on.
you call that selective breeding?
sheesh
CCDO is not only due to the pesticides being used but also the "food" the bees are consuming (also contaminated with pesticides)..... the GMO crops are nutrient poor... Further the hive management being used is also in part responsible ...
What kind of health would you have if you ate nothing but apples and only apples for weeks, then were trucked across the US and ate nothing but GMO corn for weeks, then on to the next "mono crop" rinse and repeat etc... etc...
The hives are weak from poor nutrition and management, the honey and wax are contaminated with pesticides.... and the hives are dying.
Mike Palmer from Vermont, a large apiary in business for over 30 years speaks about these issues in great depth..
The Sustainable Apiaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nznzpiWEI8A
This video with doomy music links bees and cancer to the recently omnipresent cell towers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYP4TJXm4cg
@NoDebt
neonicotinoids are killing them in conjunction with EMF interrupting their navigation system & GMO blooms with BT spliced in kills their gut. I used to spray evergreens with BT & it kills bagworms if sprayed while small & they're pretty tuff to get rid of.
you can see the same navigation issues with birds.
the neonicotinoids are derived from nictotine which in high concentration is deadly to humans also.
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/neonicotinoids-what-home-gardeners-need-to-know
at one time, farmers used to douse their chickens with a nictotine based miticide until it was removed from the market for the above hazards.
all relative.
all manufactured by the same serpents.
GGS...500 mil
They want to eliminate [most] humans.
Known as eugenics.
The worlds richest man is a huge fan...
http://www.popularliberty.com/5758/glyphosate-and-gmo-info-unbelievable
Boycott GMOs! Stop eating processed foods and regain your health. You don't want to rely on our healthcare ststem, especially when they start implanting RFID chips.
JM Keynes was a member of the British Eugenics Society.
well he was bisexual. Its a living dichotomy.
They have i have many clients who take over 10 scripts a day what would you call that and all the kids on ssr s
Perhaps.
http://www.zengardner.com/crashing-matrix-last-ditch-trans-everything-ag...
ONE WORD: FUKUSHIMA. GMP'S OR GENETICALLY MODIFIED PEOPLE.....
Just hope that when YOU or one of your loved ones get cancer, big pharma will already have their (extortionately expensive) drug salve on the market and it will be covered by The Affordable Care Act. God Bless 'Murica!
GMOs and vaccinations - it's just part of the program of the new world order. They want to reduce the population of the planet in three times. GMOs and vaccination - is the way to reduce the population in three times not by military means.
That, and promoting the homosexual agenda.
And the homozio-con chemtrail bastards with their HAARP.
....And, and THE LIZARD PEOPLE!!!!!!!
YEAH! THOSE PEOPLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllBC-ThwjQ
Down to half a million servants people.
Per the Georgia Guidestones?
And as The Greeks have discover, instead of Germans using TANKS they used BANKS....
I think this guy is on to something. Wim Hof - The Ice Man, another gift from Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw
I'm also a fan of the one minute cure a book which may be found on amazon.
Bear in mind, I'm crazy.
The owners of the military-industrial/ financial/ big pharma/ big food/ (insert conglomerate) complex seem to be the same old players. Banzai had a spectacular flowchart resembling this.
It's never too late to start your gardens folks.
I'd really like to see that flowchart. Anyone got a link? I'm coming up blank on 'net searches.
I'm still searching but this one is close. I seem to remember another. Banzai7 World of Conspiracy 3.0
Funny Taco Bell is on there. Neighbor is a lobbyist for KFC.
It still quite a scene to me, when the seeds I plant start growing up out of the dirt !!!
I planted three girls and two boys. Now I wait for a NBA super 5.
Hope, Dope, Nope, Pope and Grope.
Well you can't have winners all the time.
The game plan is Hope tells Grope to push Dope to Pope so as to get Nope to say : pass me that white stuff with blonde hair.
Pope gets to decide if he is friend of Hope or pich sniffer of Dope who wants to stymie Nope.
What a screwed up team. Never have a Pope to decide who to Dope, it leaves no Hope for Nope except Grope.
Anyone who insists that a store-bought, GMO tomato tastes the same as one of the beefsteak, home-grown tomatoes from my garden is an ignoramus to the nth degree.
Or their taste buds have been genetically modified and everything tastes like cardboard.
I have noticed that many of the people around me have lost their sense of taste and smell. I am amazed how people can eat in a restaurant where either the smell of pine sol or bathroom odors are drifting about...
Maybe the restaurant goers just start out with super spicy hot nachos to kill their sensitivity? lol ;-)
But on a serious note, I agree. Not just that people have lost their sense of taste and smell, but it too has been modified... along with their common sense in most cases.
Homegrown tomatoes have smoked store-bought tomatoes since way before GMO even began.
It's almost as though they're not even the same fruit.
It's because you are getting it fresh and ripe from your garden. The store tomato was picked too soon so it wouldn't spoil on the week long journey to the store.
All I wanna do is ** ** ** ** and take your mon-ay.
That's a lyric from MIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
Follow the money and round-up the usual suspects.
Bayer... proud makers of Zyklon B and and primary funder for the expirments conducted by Josef Mengele..
Bayer, producer of a pesticide nerve agents called neonicotinoids.
why can't you say it in german?
Neoncotinoids becomes Mein nude cunt. Its so much cuter!
Mutti would be proud of German nude bather tradition.
Bayer or no Badische Anilin und Soda !
I am convinced that Zionwood's focus of late on zombies is an insider joke about the GMO food Zion is pumping out to us.
My guillotine and I are not laughing.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
No exec of a GMO firm will have quarter after the American republic is Restored.
They got no idea what "classical" plant breeders throw at the seeds. And all produce F1 hybrids...
Also chosing a vegetable with absolutely no acreage grown of a GMO variety anywhere in the world as your example of GMO crop is rather stupid.
I once worked with Bacillus thuringiensis, the bacteria from which the gene coding for BT toxin was taken and inserted into corn.
Did you know that B. thuringiensis is nearly 100% identical to Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) at the chromosomal level? Well, now you do. Bet you won't see that on a box of corn flakes.
They used to spray B.t. on crops directly. BT toxin produced by B.t. is deadly to Lepidoptera (moths), as it destroys their intestinal lining when ingested. This wasn't so bad for people, though, as you could just wash off most of the bacteria, and it is non-toxic when ingested (not so, anthrax!).
But this wasn't good enough for the corporate scientists - why not just take the gene itself and put it into corn? Heck, people's guts are millions of times larger than an insect's, it won't be a problem! Then we don't have to spray it with B.t., which doesn't make us much money; we will just use a broad-spectrum pesticide that we already make a lot of money on: Roundup!
Well, there was a problem with that. Actually, many problems. First, in order to isolate the BT gene and test it, and also add genetic markers to make it easy to work with, they took that gene and put it into Eschericia coli...which is present in large numbers in the human GI tract. This matters, as I will explain later.
Second, people eat a LOT of corn. It is the second or third most ingested grain after wheat and rice, after all. So, people get a heavier dose of BT toxin than expected, as corn is in almost everything in one form or another (corn syrup, maltodextrin, etc.).
Third, nearly all corn these days is GMO. Very little non-GMO corn is produced in the US. And, GMO crops are routinely treated with Roundup, which contains glyphosate...which has just been implicated as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Roundup is a pesticide, but it *also* kills other things...such as gut bacteria...
...but, not E. coli bacteria that have taken up BT toxin DNA from food that people eat, for that DNA came from corn that is ALSO resistant to Roundup, and THAT DNA was also expressed in E. coli for study.
So, now you have E. coli bacteria in your gut that: 1. are now present in greater numbers, due to the effects of Roundup on your gut bacteria; 2. contain the DNA for producing BT toxin, which they got from corn and which has ALREADY been shown to produce BT toxin in that strain; and 3. this bacteria is also immune to the effects of Roundup.
So, now, chronic eaters of corn products have BT-producing bacteria factories in their guts. And, this BT toxin destroys the intestinal lining, leading to chronic problems as now complex food molecules can enter the bloodstream directly - molecules that are not natural, and which the body determines is a foreign entity that it makes antibodies to...so, now, when one eats corn their body ATTACKS ITSELF.
And, this will happen with almost ANY food that one eats a lot of. This is the genesis of 'Leaky Gut' syndrome, also known as Coeliac disease, and also the cause of many autoimmune disorders, such as lupus, arthritis, alopecia, etc.
Now, you know...the REST of the story.
But wait... There is more so much more....
Lets talk about neonicotinoids... and their half life and the products they break down into and the effect on human health!!! Forgetting for the moment about the importance of "pollinators" aka honey bees...
God says:
This is why I invented Activia® Probiotic Yogurt.
It will fix that little leaky sphincter problem.
made by...
bullshit coporation, read the label & follow up on their alleged active cultures.
you wanna restore gut flora?
get some liquid bentonite & follow up with bulgarian yogurt & kiefer.
***looks at God askance***
Moloch, is that you?
***runs away from tall trees; drops on ground***
Logged in to upvote this great fucking post.
Fucker of mothers - this is one gem of knowledge.
Thanks Implied Violins.
NM
Aluminum and mercury are neurotoxins (also sodium fluoride btw). After entering your system they can wreck havoc with your brain. Alzheimers is the least of worries. That's what they are spraying in chemtrails and 2 of the ingredients that can be found in some vaccines. There is no question that incremental depopulation is on the elite agenda. Which makes me wonder if Fukushima was planned. Radiation poisoning will de the job quicker. North America is being inundated with radiation far in excess of acceptable limits. I suggest eveyone bookmark netc.com to see how your town/city is faring. Pre Fukushima, a Count Per minute (CPM) of 50+ was grounds for evacuation. You will be alarmed at the CPMs you'll see.
How bout all the ABOVE GROUND NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE US WAY BACK YOU MOOK!?
We should all be glowing in the dark now
I was at the garden center the other day to get some Miracle-Gro for plants.
Guy said ''We will no longer sell anything made by Monsanto. Strictly organic.''
People here are up in arms with this bullshit TTIP thing .
My wife is on Facebook a lot and has group that intends to go to the Hague and argue against Dutch govt signing anything with these MonSATAN sons of bitches.
Russia has made law outlawing GMO crap.
So I bought a big bag of chicken shit pellets which actually works wonders on anything you grow.
Careful! Be sure the chicken shit you buy comes from chickens that don't have more steroids in 'em than a pro footballer. And those antibiotics that don't break down when they pass through the chicken.
Destruction of the natural world problems trump social polarization problems!
Touche! Al Gore comes to Toronto in 2015 and gets "radical" on day two talking about 'funding of politics'?
WTF?
Guess I was right ALL along, you are being heard in many quarters, , regrettably very very(?) late in the game???
Thank you Rad. Thank you Tyler.
p.s. Are GMOs a mass extinction potential event? No. GMOs are like smoking a joint... Not EXACTLY deadly. But acid 24/7? FossFuul trip-wire :o
p.p.s. I verify RM's use of the word trump many times before LOL
That is a direct quote.
. MEAN ing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sUiS3pjdxU
well, this and that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkicdO_64w
RUSH succeeded holding a candle to YES. Congrats /A Farewell To Kings in 2015!
"but this was something (a trillion X MOAR) more..."
The GMOs are going to get you if you don't watch out! Also, it is fatal to ride in a steam train, they go too fast and your head will explode.
Apples and Oranges.
You are living proof that GMO's rot brain cells.
You have obviously eaten way too much gmo! Your brain doesn't work!
They want farmers to buy new seed every year. Fucking racketeers.
I wonder if Monsanto Execs drive in armored cars and wear kevlar vests.
Won't be long before some Chris Kyle types will use them for target practice,
Until they become TV famous, nobody cares who they are.
Stars have stalkers. Too bad the .01%ers don't.
Beaten in India.
http://salem-news.com/articles/july122011/india-monsanto-beaten-tk.php
Got to be pretty nasty if the pigs won't eat it.
And how about those bees? Killing bees is not a good idea if you like FOOD.
GMO's are a great way to fulfill the depopulation agenda - good job Bill Gates
It is no mark of genius: to kill off the people that may buy your product.
American's health and courage have been compromised. Toxic GMO Frankenfood have made them into weak and fearful patients - not healthy and independent patriots.
The recent US House vote to ban GMO labeling and supercede state labeling laws is another nail in America's coffin and will continue the creation of a society of blindly loyal sick and dependent sheeple to their commonly perceived Establishment saviors.
The Recent GMO Labeling Travesty
NaturalNews - "We should not raise prices on consumers based on the wishes of a handful of activists," said Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), who just became consumer enemy number one after he decided to author a bill that destroys
any chance Americans have of knowing what's in their food, specifically whether or not they contain genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs.
What Pompeo isn't telling you, and in fact is deliberately covering up, is that Americans overwhelmingly support GMO-labeling (we're talking in the 90th percentile); you can view proof of that support here, here and here.
Pompeo, who has likely been paid VERY well by Big Food lobbyists to spearhead this initiative, has made it his mission to make sure that you and your family continue eating foods made from crops that are genetically
engineered to withstand high douses of Monsanto's Roundup, which by the way, its primary ingredient, glyphosate, was labeled as being "probably" carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization last spring.
Scientists also concluded that glyphosate is "genotoxic," meaning that it damages DNA and there's actually no safe level of exposure.
But Pompeo doesn't want you to know any of that. In fact, he's worried that GMO-labeling will only confuse you. Are you insulted? Well, you should be.
Named the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 by a bunch of politicians who know next to nothing about GMOs, and the DARK Act (Denying Americans the Right to Know) by passionate food activists and consumer groups
who have practically dedicated their lives to bringing awareness about the dangers of GMOs, the legislation that was recently passed in the House Committeeprevents all states from enacting their own GMO-labeling laws, ever.
It also strips states like Vermont, which already passed GMO-labeling, their right from doing so.
Below is a list of politicians actively working to keep you and your family in the dark regarding the dangers of GMOs.
Get the word out on these traitors and scumbags:
Alabama
Byrne, Bradley (R-AL)
Roby, Martha (R-AL)
Rogers, Mike (R-AL)
Aderholt, Robert (R-AL)
Brooks, Mo (R-AL)
Palmer, Gary (R-AL)
Sewell,Terri (D-AL)
Young, Don (R-AK)
Kirkpatrick, Ann (R-AZ)
McSally, Martha (R-AZ)
Gosar, Paul (R-AZ)
Salmon, Matt (R-AZ)
Schweikert, David (R-AZ)
Sinema, Kyrsten (D-AZ)
Crawford, Eric (R-AZ)
Hill, French (R-AZ)
Womack, Steve (R-AZ)
Westerman, Bruce (R-AZ)
California
LaMalfa, Doug (R-CA)
Garamendi, John (R-CA)
McClintock, Tom (R-CA)
Bera, Ami (D-CA)
Cook, Paul (R-CA)
Denham, Jeff (R-CA
Costa, Jim (D-CA)
Valadao, David (R-CA)
Nunes, Devin (R-CA)
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GMO is not about growing food, it's about taking control over seeds.
Taking control over the reproduction of all the future crops.
They want to reduce the world produce and grain seeds and to concentrate those seeds in hands just two American companies (Monsanto and Dupon)
NATO started a war in Ukraine to take over Ukrainian arable lands to plant GMOs.
http://russia-insider.com/en/ukraine/2014/11/07/01-12-06pm/ukraine_opens_monsanto_land_grabs_and_gmos
Read French and Russian researches on what kind of wonders GMO seeds do to reproductive systems of small mammals.
The American and European children will be forced to eat GMO and stop reproducing.
Which is actually not that bad, if you think about it.
control of seeds and arable land for sure +100, I am not myself so sure about all the hysteria around gmos but keep an open mind.
http://freakonomics.com/2010/11/09/gmos-and-mother-nature-closer-than-yo...
but SAM, think further please:
see the "developed" countries, or lets say, countries with scools and universities, and a health care system and a minimum of fair conditions= women dont have to give birth to 7 children anymore. all the rich countries have a reproduction rate far under what is needed, to keep their society alive. the rich are dying out.
this means: do fair trade, pay fair salaaries, give fair conditions of work and the r. rate sinks. you dont need to poison everything and everybody.
but with this strategy the few wont get filthy rich.
the poisonous strategy means: yes, diminish the population AND earn money doing it AND apres nous le deluge.
this isnt necessary.
other point got lost in all the discussion here:
patents are highly involved in the whole story. patent life. this means incredible power. and is a crosspoint to the financial market, who seeks desperately new hardware to sell...
its not two systems, gmos and money are ONE system. (see the hedgefonds owning the big companies.........)
other important point:
the new technologies for manipulating the genes... scary stuff, undetectable, even in europe not labelled and partially allowed. with hardcore lobbying goin on now, a lot more will be allowed.
and you all talk about roundup etc, this stuff is past (or see 2,4D/Dicamba etc). now the poison is IN THE PLANTS, check for example Smartstax,its producing 4 pesticides and tolerance for a couple of herbizides...
bon appetit;)
ps for SMARTSTAX read:
http://www.testbiotech.org/sites/default/files/Testbiotech_SmartStax_en.pdf
testbiotech is kind of david against goliath.
This is how fucked up the USA is already and they want to push this madness on us ,
Federal judge tells Hawaiians they have no right to ban GMOs:
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/death-of-american-democracy-federal-j...
Who can prove it is bad for you? I eat GMO's all the time, and never once did I blame them for the blow hole that seems to be mutating on my forehead.
Settle down peeps...nothing to see here...move along
Strange attractors and black swans are intrinsic to chaos theory where unexpected results can crop up on very little change in initial conditions, something the GMO producers are ignoring at Our Peril. Taleb is correct in his concern about GMO as am I as nature is a holistic system while manipulation of DNA by us rubes is not. Very scary without question. Good post for sure.
Monsatan. Another talmudic gift to the world.
It gets worse. The wheat has not just been frankenized with gliadin trashing your gut, it's now weaponized.
This new DARK law also removes country of origin. FUKU, num, num.
The soon to be rolled out 5G...50% death rate.
prepare accordingly.
I wrote some new lyrics for a melody familiar to everyone. Posted a couple lines here before but here's the whole ditty:
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO.
And on this farm they had a horsefly
Evil GMO
With some horse genes here
And some fly genes there
Here some fly, there some horse
Mother Nature way off course
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO.
And on this farm they had a corndog
Evil GMO
With some corn genes here
And some dog genes there
Here some dog, there some corn
Ain't like nothin' ever born
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO
And on this farm they had a catfish
Evil GMO
With some fish genes here
And some cat genes there
Here some cat, there some fish
Destroying life their fondest wish
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO
And on this farm they sprayed some Roundup
Evil GMO
With a superweed here and a superweed there
Here a triffid, there a triffid,
Everywhere another triffid
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO.
All together, now...
Ain't like nothing'nohin's
Maui is home to a huge Monsanto operation for testing their GMO's. The citizens got a ballot measure to vote on banning GMO, and amazingly it was passed. Monsanto is appealing, and trying to do everything possible to get the ban lifted.
If a papaya bush on private property gets pollenized by one of their GMO papaya's, they will then have the ability to sue to rip out your papaya, as you do not have a right to their patented papaya. How's that for crazy!?
The name of the game is monopoly: total control, divine rights imposed by an Oligarchy control of "whats good and whats bad for society"; with the world working in INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM.
The private corporation RUNS the public sector, the elected. That's Pax Americana today.
The rest is cause and effect of the dominant power meme.
One reason the USA has gone into a confrontation with the Russian Federation is that state's refusal to allow GMO into their country. Even more so, they have vowed to create the most pure seed culture in the world. Every effort will be made to stop GMO entry and to nurture natural seeds and plants as the basis for agriculture inside that vast land. To Washington, this is a direct threat to the Deep State and their investment portfolios. The anger over Russian refusal to allow GMO inside their country has hit hard at the universal control of world agriculture that Washington has planned by it's direct agent Monsanto. Monsanto is much more that an agricultural company, it is the agent Washington is hoping to use to get total world control over seeds and plants. If you want to eat, you must pay Washington, India is finding out how this sytem works. Russia has seen this and has declared that Russia is a "No Go Zone" for this Monsanto assault.
Washington must break the back of resistance to Monsanto, or the world control of food will slip away. Imagine Monsanto's horror to see Russia with billions of dollars worth of natural seed stock and plant stock, ready to sell to all comers. You want Monsanto food, or natures food? Washington want's to decide for you, because you are not capable.
Thumbs up for you Jack, you are one of the most logical thinkers here! Every analysis spot on!
"Our critics held that the financial system was improved thanks to the unwavering progress of science and technology, which had blessed finance with more sophisticated economic insight."
It was just more sophisticated financial fraud.
Comparing the "science" of markets and finance to the science of crop production is, on on levels, a false comparison.
GMOs have many advantages for farmers in the modern monoculture system. This cross breeding has always taken place, by man and by nature. YES - GMO tech is new and different. I don't know if it's all good or all bad. I suspect some of both.
But I'm pretty damn sure the "science" behind the manipulated "markets" is extreme evil in every shape and form.
GMO is only good for biotech companies and their shareholders. Glyphosate btw. has recently been labeled as carcinogenic by the WHO.
I alway thought there were not long term toxicological tests of GMO on human, animal and ecosystem health but actually there are: they are happening right now.
The other day I was watching some documentary on the Victorian times and how they used chemicals to improve people's lives but actually they were doing a lot of harm. In the future they will say the same about our current generation and how we poisoned ourselves with chemicals and GMO.
Want to know more about GMO? Google "GMO myth and truths".