663 Should we allow genetic engineering into organics?

[michaelo]

They are the Romeo and Juliet of academic agriculture.

She is the head of the UC Davis Plant Genetics Lab and teaches the art and science of genetic engineering. He teaches the art and science of organic farming at the UC Davis Student Farm.

The combining of their technologies has been forever banned by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program, which states, in Section 205.105…

To be sold or labeled as 100 percent organic… the product must be produced and handled without the use of excluded methods including a variety of methods used to genetically modify organisms or influence their growth and development by means that are not possible under natural conditions or processes and are not considered compatible with organic production.

But wait, say Ronald and Adamchak. To meet the appetites of the world’s expanding population without drastically hurting the environment we need a visionary new approach. We need to allow for genetically-engineered organic food!

Ronald and Adamchak’s plea leads us to ask…

Should we allow genetic engineering into organic agriculture?

[LEE]

"They are the Romeo and Juliet of academic agriculture."

And lets remember that they both killed themselves!Lets not commit suicide with them.

And what the heck is"academic agriculture"?! I know there are many smart informed and well educated people out there who also have some experience at farming; but my concern is that there are also many more pointy headed retards posing as educated and informed who know very little to nothing about reality, but are well "papered" these people are dangerous!

This type of laboratory ag is everywhere and has infiltrated nearly all areas of ag,why should so called organic farming fall to their predatory involvement also?
They (GMO) are a form of pollution that forever changes plants into something they never were,organic type plants do not pollute the GMO crops in return!

Secondly, how much more real world experience do we need to understand that these altered crops do not measure up, that they do not increase yields for any real length of time, that they require far more imputs than standard varieties and that the safety of the altered crops is far from known,and is increasingly being called into question!

Ever since the fed gov and its agbiz cronies stole the organic label they have been watering it down,they do this with everything they touch,be it farming,energy,healthcare,global BS and all the other BS they get into!

I guess then that I would have to say NO! keep your academia out of my food; it ruins the taste! thanks!

[SamFox13]

I think God did a good enough job. Our problems are more in the area of government interference. In the US the fed gov has been a disaster for farmers. In California one of the most fertile valleys in the world is drying up to protect a 1" fish.

A lot of the interference is from the communist party AKA the environmental movement. More like a bowel movement on the USA. The gov hides behind the fed judges who uphold the terrorist's lawsuits.

We do not need to modify food. We need to let farmers loose to do their thing. Get the gov out the way!! And let them have water.

SamFox

[SamFox13]

I forgot an important point. Modified foods are patented. I think it was Monsanto (who else?_) who sued a farmer for patent infringement when THEIR pollen drifted to a neighboring farm & pollinated some crops. Talk about a Big Brother Farm! These patents lock up seeds & if the FDA gives the big seed companies this kind of power the free farmer will be extinct. Non corporate farmers are already an endangered species. Ask Willy Nelson. Stuff like this is just one of the many things us TEA people are upset about. This stupidity is why we are in the streets & why lame stream prostitute media calls us names & misrepresents who most of us are.

Any way, yours for the restoration of Original Intent US Constitutional law for the USA.

SamFox