They just opened a new cottonseed manufacturing plant here in Lubbock, TX. I applied but didn't get an interview. I really wanted to get an inside view of their operations. I know they have a main office here too.

Cottonseeds. Must be for all the cottonseed oil they put in cheap potato chips. Mmmm, cottonseeds...

monsanto >justice

No, just no. This corporation has become stronger that a single government. The only way to shut it down would be to nationalize and then dismantle it. But how do you nationalize an international corporation...

Plus it got bought out by Bayer in 2015, so we'd have to take Bayer down with it.

This development has reinvigorated my skepticism of GMOs, that's for sure

Bayer?

Don't wait for this to play out because it won't be fast.

Start buying organic food and drinking RO filtered or distilled water if you want to protect against round up and all the other carcinogens that are rampant in our environment.

Organic food still has poisons (although safer and more regulated) but the only thing better right now is starting your own farm where no poison is used - and that is just not feasible for most of us.

Don't be cheap about what goes into your body on a daily basis.

Ro filtered?

Reverse Osmosis

Awesome thanks

Which commonly used organic pesticides and herbicides are shown to be safer?

The main difference is that non-organic foods are now genetically engineered to withstand heroic doses of glyphosate (round-up).

They were spraying so much of this stuff on plants that the plants were dying, so they had to genetically engineer them to withstand the poison. The plants are now sprayed with even more of this poison, so people are eating enough weed killer to kill a plant.

This is why non-GMO is better - you can be sure that the plant would die if they sprayed too much poison on it.

There is a lot of propaganda on the internet from a certain company that makes billions off of it a year, and others who are too cheap to buy real food. You can do you own research, but make sure you look up who is funding the studies.

You can also just try going 100% organic for a few months to see if you feel better. I certainly did and now I can't even eat non-organic food without feeling like garbage, and it's not placebo as so many people in denial think.

Hmm, so as long as it doesn't naturally kill the plant it's OK?

Cyanide is naturally produced by some plants and many plants are unaffected by it. Would that be an acceptable organic pesticide?

Or is whether or not something kills a plant not a good measure of safety?

Another example of an herbicide and pesticide that does kill plants but I can assure you is safe to consume is water. Rice fields don't actually require being submerged in water, they just do it to kill off the weeds and bugs that would harm the crop.

Yes it's that simple and that's exactly what I meant.

I mean, your reasoning basically boils down to "it's bad for other things so it's obviously bad for us", and there's plenty of examples where that's not necessarily true.

Did you know that the mere temperature of the soil will change the sex of crocodile and alligator hatchlings ("turn the crocodiles gay")? We had best make sure to stay in climate controlled rooms for our entire lives to avoid that fate ourselves!

Glyphosate causes cancer.

Broke his ankles. Good work

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/

Posted this study a few weeks back. Good info on their poison , may i add that most wheat is sprayed with glyphosate during harvest for drying . We’re being killed slowly

Very true . But the chemicals in our food/ drinks/ air are literally unavoidable, it’s just which one you want to ingest. Sad world we live in where profit overcomes health .

Everything is a chemical. Even water itself.

Toxic chemicals, chemicals detrimental to our health *

Water is toxic at a high enough dose as well.

Okay mr state the obvious, fuck. You’re trying your best aren’t you? Everything is harmful without moderation , i get it .

And everything is safe depending on dosage and method and consumption as well.

Eating a few atoms of plutonium won't hurt you, for example.

This is bullshit.

Not to mention it's killing all the bees too.