what is your view on it?
(i do not know the dub view, but is it not important for me).
for food: ok. foor animals: ok. for humans: ok
Hi Danny,
As a consumer, one of the problems I have with G.M. foods is that the lable dosent have to say if its G.M. or not, so as consumers were not given a choice, and that bothers me, and i'm sure it bothers others who would rather not use those products.
like the old saying says "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Thare ain't nothing wrong with our food, plain and simple GREED !!!
Kind Regards
Acadian
hey everyone, this is my first post and i'am terrefied.
i have been lurking for over a year and finally decided that it was time to post.
i feel like i know all of you and feel more at home here than at the kingdom hall.
Welcome lola,
you'll find good friends here !
Acadian
what is your view on it?
(i do not know the dub view, but is it not important for me).
for food: ok. foor animals: ok. for humans: ok
The marketing of genetic engineering inspires visions of perfect health, long life, and miracle foods. The reality is that these claims are often completely unsubstantiated and sometimes simply wrong.
Claim: Genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world.
Fact: Hunger in the world is caused by poverty, by the simple inability to buy food, not by lack of supply.
Claim: Genetic engineering will help developing countries.
Fact: Biotech companies patent their seeds. To protect their investment, the farmers that use the seed sign a contract which prohibits saving, reselling, or exchanging seed. The family farms of the poorer nations depend on saved seed for survival. Biotech companies also patent other people's seeds, like basmati rice, neem, and quinoa, taking advantage of indigenous knowledge and centuries of selective breeding by small farmers without giving anything in return. The same companies, backed by the U.S. government, proposed to protect their seed patents through the terminator technology. A terminator seed will grow, but the seeds it produces are sterile. Any nation that buys such seeds will swiftly lose any vestige of agricultural self-sufficiency. Furthermore, genetically engineered seeds are designed for agribusiness farming, not for the capabilities of the small family farms of the developing nations. How are they to buy and distribute the required chemical inputs?
Claim: Genetic engineering will reduce the use of herbicides.
Fact: Genetic engineering develops crops with resistance to specific herbicides. For example, Roundup Ready(tm) crops survive spraying with RoundUp(tm). On the one hand, this allows the farmer to use more herbicide. On the other hand, this leads to herbicide-resistant weeds.
Claim: Genetic engineering will reduce the use of pesticides.
Fact: This claim is based on the sowing of crops genetically engineered to produce their own pesticides. Such crops produce the pesticide continuously in every cell. Some of these crops (the Bt potato, for example) are actually classified as pesticides by the EPA. The net outcome of sowing pesticide-producing crops is an vast increase in pesticides.
Claim: Genetic engineering is environmentally friendly.
Fact: The increased quantities of herbicides and pesticides noted above is one strike against this claim. Pollen from genetically engineered crops can be transferred to cultivated and wild relatives over a mile away. This threatens the future of organic crops. It can pass herbicide resistance genes from GE crops to weedy relatives, necessitating the development of more herbicides. Also, the huge areas of genetically identical crops will influence the evolution of local pests and wildlife, and through the food chain, the whole ecology.
Claim: Genetically engineered foods are just like natural foods.
Fact: There is no natural mechanism for getting insect DNA into potatoes or flounder DNA into tomatoes. Genetically engineered foods are engineered to be different from natural foods. Why else all the patents? This claim is empty sales talk.
Claim: Genetic engineering is simply an extension of traditional crossbreeding.
Fact: Crossbreeding cannot transfer genes across species barriers. Genetic engineering transfers genes between species that could never be crossbred. Also, crossbreeding lets nature manage the delicate activity of combining the DNA of the parents to form the DNA of the child. Genetic engineering shoots the new gene into the host organism without reference to any holistic principle at all.
Claim: Genetic engineering is safe.
Fact: Safety comes from accumulated experience. In the case of genetic engineering, there has not been the time or the public debate essential for accumulating sufficient experience to justify any broad claim to safety.
There is a vast domain of ignorance at the root of the technology:
The claims for genetic engineering are overblown and misleading. And the polls show that people are suspicious.
Acadian
what is your view on it?
(i do not know the dub view, but is it not important for me).
for food: ok. foor animals: ok. for humans: ok
Hello All !
So are G.M.O.s safe ?
Follow this link and you tell me.
Monsanto's Secret Study Shows Health Hazards of New GE Corn
Acadian
no longer being a christian, it has become a mind opening experience to look back and see certian things i once ignored or just brushed off.
yet now i can not help but see these things and wonder why other christians do not.. if you have ever studied greek, roman or any other cultures religions in history.
then you have no doubt read their legends, about gods and how things came to be, and no doubt you have enjoyed these and at the same time you must have wondered how people actually bought this enough to make it a religion.
Hello all
The way I see it, all these myths are real events that occured before the flood.
Acadian
i just joined here so i'm not completely familiar with the forum code.
well, i'm going to be baptized in less than a month and i was wondering if i can find any friends among my peers or anyone around my age.
you see, my congregation was split up almost three years ago.
Hi Amionne,
why are there so many ex-JWs here?
and this forum provides a place to discuss issues that aren't allow to be discussed at the K.H.
So if you have questions, you should have no problem getting them answered.
But use caution, and don't believe everything you read, do the research and make sure of all things.
And welcome to the board
Amionne.
Kind Regards
Acadian
i've signed up some time ago but never really had courage to post.
so here i am, free and open-minded
Welcome Cyborg and sad emo, may your spirits soar as you learn more !
Acadian
i'm somewhat currious why active witnesses appear to frequent the site, and if the information on this site causes any to "fade away" or "dis-associate"?.
personally if i have known 18 years ago what i know now i would have been a lot more active in trying to convince all i cared about to leave, instead of fading away [gone with a bang so to speak].
it's funny how when you are in it you can't see it for what it is.
Hello All !
Do you remember how you felt there had to be more to life?
And then the JWs came with a message that seemed to fill that void.
But then the light got brighter, and you realised thelr was more, or maybe you found out somthing about the borg , to make a
short story long, the borg controls your spirituality by putting limits on it.
So for those of us who are really searching for truth there can be no limits to our search for it.
The elders came to my house about a month ago concerned with research i was doing on the other books mention in the bible (Enoch/Jasher ect.)
Well they weren't happy with my research, and one of them made the comment " So what, you think were in kindergarden? and you've progressed beyond us ?" my responce " those are your words not mine." the point is that the WTS limits spirituality and more.
So for some, i'd say their here to learn and others to unload the crap the WTS has piled on us for so long.
Kind Regards
Acadian
family life that pleases god .
what is the husband's position in the family?
3. a father should work hard to care for his family.
Hi all !
boy i wish when i use to go to meetings the discussions were like this.
Thanks for the entertainment !
Acadian
Lower Taxes ! Yeah...
