If you are a "boomer" as I am, you ate far worse herbicides & pesticides than Roundup in your youth. If you're still alive & healthy the long term effects must not be as bad as predicted by the emotionally motivated. Humans have been genetically manipulating both plants & animals for centuries for better or worse. As our technology has progressed so has the level & variety of that manipulation. Only time will tell if we did ourselves in with the changes we have produced. Karl Church Dinuba, CA zone 9b On Nov 14, 2014 8:00 AM, "richard" <xerics@cox.net> wrote: > I believe that the worst problem with GMO treated food crops is that they > come to your table with residual pesticides (roundup) and their by > products. > I do not want to eat roundup! > Richard > Vista, CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of T O > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 7:38 AM > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] GMOs > > The problem with GMOs is absolutely the plants themselves, when they have > pesticides built into their genes which have the unwanted effects of > killing > the micro fauna in the soil. "Round-up ready" is no better, facilitating > the > use of much herbicide. Monocrops in general displace enormous plots of > land > which was once home to thousands of species, including geophytes. Bottom > line is the crops destroy biodiversity all around them. > > If a company can cross genes so unrelated, why couldn't they have made > them > pollen sterile? That would solve two problems. One to prevent contamination > of organic growers crops and two to prevent seed formation, which they > don't > allow anyway due to the utility patents. Organic seed growers are required > to have their crops tested yearly for the presence of GMOs, out of pocket. > See http://wildgardenseed.com/articles/catalog-essays/ for some highly > interesting essays on utility patents, GMO sugar beets, and common sense. > > That being said, there are only a few ornamental GMOs that I'm aware of > (glow in the dark houseplants, blue rose attempts) and I'm sure they are > grown with tissue culture, so I doubt their affect on the environment is as > severe. > > -Travis > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >