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cpwm17

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7. GMO's haven't been shown to pose any health risk

Reply to Oak3Tree (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

Mar 2016

and there is no compelling reason to believe that they should. Other products produced by companies, such as Monsanto, need to be heavily regulated for health and safety, like anything anything else.

At first these folks bought into the negative hype concerning GMO's. They were properly criticized for an anti-GMO video they couldn't defend:

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General Mills to start using GMO labeling nationwide, Doubles Organic crops [View all] nationalize the fed Mar 2016 OP

Stabenow managed to stop Pat Roberts' bill Ilsa Mar 2016 #1

This will impact the commercial food industry Oak3Tree Mar 2016 #2

"Maybe it will help to put Monsanto out of business" cpwm17 Mar 2016 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Oak3Tree Mar 2016 #5

GMO's haven't been shown to pose any health risk cpwm17 Mar 2016 #7

No scientific consensus on that at all AxionExcel Mar 2016 #8

In your own words: cpwm17 Mar 2016 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Oak3Tree Mar 2016 #12

You have a very narrow and strange view of what constitutes a Democrat. cpwm17 Mar 2016 #15

Monsanto made a lot of bitter enemies with it's godforsaken ATTACK AG AxionExcel Mar 2016 #6

Seeds have been patented and monopolized since the 1970 Green Revolution introduced hybrid seeds NickB79 Mar 2016 #9

But Monsanto has an ugly fetish for suing farmers who don't want their seed AxionExcel Mar 2016 #11

Monsanto supplies the organic, non-GM seed for the farms General Mills is sourcing from NickB79 Mar 2016 #10

A snappy salute for the General AxionExcel Mar 2016 #3

I guess they need some woo-woo PR to make up for things like laying off 500 in Chicago tritsofme Mar 2016 #14