Re: There is no gas shortage

"C. E. White" <cewhite3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Brent P" <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
spamTHISbrp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I read that the high food prices are eroding resistance to
genetically engineered crops- Monsanto must be pleased that their
plan, um, that circumstances are working out.

Of course. Environmentalists are concerning themselves over this
CO2 nonsense when the real danger is GMO. Some of the
'side-effects' of GMO crops are pretty scary. As in the rats were
force-fed (because they wouldn't touch it on their own) GMO food
and died. (75% of US corn is now GMO BTW) The economic attack
that GMO represents is bad enough.

In the broadest definition of "GMO" 100% of corn grown in the US is
genetically modified. I realize some of the modifications happened the
old fashion way (crossbreeding) but why is that any more acceptable
than inserting genes? Like it or not genes somehow get transferred in
nature - witness the "natural" development of "Round-Up Ready" weeds.
I don't think Monsanto is out there inserting the gene that confers
resistance to Round-Up in pig weeds, but they got it anyhow.

The weeds thrive from accelerated natural selection, aided and
abetted by poorly managed irradication procedures.

This occurs especially when their environment is only lightly
stressed by the agent, allowing more of the plants/animals to live
and breed through the term of stress. Only the very-weakest are
killed. Those with a light to moderate resistance multiply, filling
out the gaps left behind by the killed stuff.

When a heavier dose is applied, only the very few with a strong
natural resistance survive. If the number of those is sufficiently
low, then the pest is effectively irradicated because of insufficent
breeding population. But it's unlikely that all (and their seeds)
will be killed.

If you really want to kill the pests, then you MUST remove the
survivors by other means, following areal treatment, before they get
the chance to breed.

Commercial genetic modification can be used to force growers to keep
buying seeds instead of reserving part of the normal harvest as seed
crop. The modified crop yields no/few fertile seeds. Due to the high
populations of plants in intense agriculture, it is however possible
to leverage the "stressed environment" for the fertile-seed crops to
become naturally injected by the GM, with the dominant
characteristics for survival being selected in natural cross-breeds
over a number of seasons.
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