Re: [DIYbio] free food

Dude. Do some research. Monsanto never shipped Terminator after the
public backlash, and GM produce tends to have fewer insecticide residues
(Bt, because innate resistance), lower aflatoxin (Bt, because less
bites), and less-toxic herbicide residues (RR, because Glyphosate).

It's still up to you whether you eat it, but facts is facts.

On 14/01/15 21:22, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Yunfan Jiang <jyf1987@gmail.com> wrote:
>> its looks cool, but since it from company, i want to ask can people grow
>> these by them self? since those poor people might not have money to buy this
>> every year
>
> Lot's of farmers use pirated GMOs (cotton in Pakistan), but the GMOs
> have already passed world-leader GMO-safety-regulation (even though
> this 'testing' is arguably lacking and insufficient and/or misplaced).
> A point to consider though, is that pirated-GMO cotton isn't being
> eaten, and there is so much anti-food-GMO propaganda that it has
> already scared the world away from things like 'Golden rice'. Haitians
> burned Monsanto grain in protest, but this was terminator-gene GMO and
> also potentially soaked with herbicide and insecticide so even I would
> have been hesitant to eat the grain even if I wasn't planting it.
>

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