Comments on: Whose Side is the Government On? http://www.farmtotableonline.org/2010/03/whose-side-is-the-government-on/ The Emerging American Meal Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Khaled Allen http://www.farmtotableonline.org/2010/03/whose-side-is-the-government-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Khaled Allen Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:10:12 +0000 http://www.farmtotableonline.org/?p=2186#comment-1621 @NOtoGMOs I generally agree that GMOs have been completely abused and used as a way to oppress farmers and generally mess with the environment and our health. Looking at the history of GMOs, though, they have always been put forth by profit-driven companies with questionable motives. You are also attacking Monsanto in your comment, associating GMOs only with that company or others like it. I simply wanted to raise the question of whether GMOs and Big Ag are inseparable. If not, then yeah, I say avoid GMOs at all costs. But the technology and the companies that use it don't always go hand in hand. Monsanto specifically chose traits that would help it achieve its profit goals, rather than benefiting farmers. They could just as easily breed other traits. Hypothetically, if the only thing a GMO did differently than a normal strain was resist flooding better, and it produced viable seeds, what would be wrong with that? Monsanto wouldn't make that seed, but someone else who didn't care to make money off it might. @NOtoGMOs I generally agree that GMOs have been completely abused and used as a way to oppress farmers and generally mess with the environment and our health. Looking at the history of GMOs, though, they have always been put forth by profit-driven companies with questionable motives. You are also attacking Monsanto in your comment, associating GMOs only with that company or others like it. I simply wanted to raise the question of whether GMOs and Big Ag are inseparable. If not, then yeah, I say avoid GMOs at all costs. But the technology and the companies that use it don’t always go hand in hand. Monsanto specifically chose traits that would help it achieve its profit goals, rather than benefiting farmers. They could just as easily breed other traits. Hypothetically, if the only thing a GMO did differently than a normal strain was resist flooding better, and it produced viable seeds, what would be wrong with that? Monsanto wouldn’t make that seed, but someone else who didn’t care to make money off it might.

]]> By: NOtoGMOs http://www.farmtotableonline.org/2010/03/whose-side-is-the-government-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 NOtoGMOs Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:27:25 +0000 http://www.farmtotableonline.org/?p=2186#comment-1594 "The plan is also pro-small farmer and makes claims that the President would help small farmers meet organic certification requirements and otherwise become economically viable." If organic can include GMOs then what's to stop Big Ag again from fleecing us and s....ing us, in more ways than one. I'm sure Monsanto would love to give the small farmer some GMO seeds,(govt. subsidized) let them proliferate all over the environment, and soon....only seeds around will be Monsanto's. Smart move. I think the Big Ag movement is leading Obama in the wrong direction. But I bet Michelle will not be happy to lose her traditional organic garden. We, the public, don't want or need GMOs. Stop the spin! “The plan is also pro-small farmer and makes claims that the President would help small farmers meet organic certification requirements and otherwise become economically viable.”

If organic can include GMOs then what’s to stop Big Ag again from fleecing us and s….ing us, in more ways than one. I’m sure Monsanto would love to give the small farmer some GMO seeds,(govt. subsidized) let them proliferate all over the environment, and soon….only seeds around will be Monsanto’s. Smart move. I think the Big Ag movement is leading Obama in the wrong direction. But I bet Michelle will not be happy to lose her traditional organic garden.

We, the public, don’t want or need GMOs. Stop the spin!

]]> By: Leda Meredith http://www.farmtotableonline.org/2010/03/whose-side-is-the-government-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1498 Leda Meredith Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:21:55 +0000 http://www.farmtotableonline.org/?p=2186#comment-1498 Good to read some positive news on the sustainable ag front for a change! Good to read some positive news on the sustainable ag front for a change!

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