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In reply to the discussion: Pope Francis Slams GMOs and Pesticides for Destroying the Earth's 'Complex Web of Ecosystems' [View all]appalachiablue
(41,113 posts)8. Good for the Pope! He studied chemistry I think.
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Pope Francis Slams GMOs and Pesticides for Destroying the Earth's 'Complex Web of Ecosystems' [View all]
bananas
Jun 2015
OP
And posting the word "horseshit" doesn't mean that science in the service only of profits, and
villager
Jun 2015
#27
So, *your* patronizing insults are okay, but it's just other people's insults that are the problem?
villager
Jun 2015
#96
I started by mentioning that your initial sneering -- which is how you enter any dicussion here --
villager
Jun 2015
#100
Well, that wasn't Einstein's style of critical thinking. He once pointed to a drawer in a table
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2015
#119
Sorry. Critical thinking has to result in positive thinking or it will remain sterile.
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2015
#126
Believe it or not, the Pope's powers are quite limited. There are many things he
Cal33
Jun 2015
#140
Are 'liberal' and 'progressive' terms that are meant to be the exclusive preserve of atheists?
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#173
They are destroying the natural diversity, they're like kudzu-takeover.
Dont call me Shirley
Jun 2015
#86
It would behoove churches to begin to preach birth control for the salvation of our species
Dont call me Shirley
Jul 2015
#169
Poison the insects and you poison or starve all of the smaller animals that eat them.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#6
I chose mules because people know what they are. People who didn't take much biology don't know
jeff47
Jun 2015
#151
American Catholics are MORE likely to use artificial birth control than Americans in general.
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#37
I'm saying that I hope the Church and the scientific establishment working TOGETHER
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#62
They can and will be taken seriously on the issue of the global environment because
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#73
I have always advocated that the CC change its position on artificial contraception. n/t
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#84
The claim that 98 percent of Catholic women use contraception: a media foul
progressoid
Jul 2015
#166
Not a fan of monoculture, pesticides, etc. It's been said often by natives it's all interconnected.
freshwest
Jun 2015
#10
The Pope knows more than Bill Nye and MdT on the safety of GMOs, imho. mahalo bananas.
Cha
Jun 2015
#45
K&R I am not totally opposed to GMO, nor any potentially beneficial science.
raouldukelives
Jun 2015
#106