German firm Bayer is doing a $66billion takeover of GM food company Monsanto

by Tommy Monk Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:39 pm

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-deal-idUSKCN11K128?il=0

So what's the betting that the eu will now have widespread growing of GM crops...!?

Another good reason why we need leave the eu!!!

by Original Quill Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:56 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-deal-idUSKCN11K128?il=0

So what's the betting that the eu will now have widespread growing of GM crops...!?

Another good reason why we need leave the eu!!!

Unfortunately, nature doesn't respect geographic jurisdictions.

If they start genetically modifying crops in France and Belgium, it'll soon blow over to Britain.

by 'Wolfie Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:09 pm

WHAT makes anyone believe that someone(s) isn't already growing GM'd crops in Britain, somewhere ???

The Ministry of Agriculture has probably been conducting trials for some years, already; even if there aren't any widespread plantings..

by Tommy Monk Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:19 pm

Original Quill wrote:
Tommy Monk wrote:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-deal-idUSKCN11K128?il=0

So what's the betting that the eu will now have widespread growing of GM crops...!?

Another good reason why we need leave the eu!!!

Unfortunately, nature doesn't respect geographic jurisdictions.

If they start genetically modifying crops in France and Belgium, it'll soon blow over to Britain.

Then they can pay the costs of clearing up any mess!!!

by Original Quill Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:29 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:
Original Quill wrote:

Unfortunately, nature doesn't respect geographic jurisdictions.

If they start genetically modifying crops in France and Belgium, it'll soon blow over to Britain.

Then they can pay the costs of clearing other up!!!

You don't clean up GMO. That would be like putting toothpaste back into the tube.

We don't have the technology to reverse organic processes. If we did, we'd have a cure for cancer, TB and indeed, old age itself. What most physicians do is make conditions right for the immune system to cure itself. And we are even unsure how that works.

Reverse cross-pollination? Uh-huh. Mad

by Tommy Monk Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:01 pm

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28283-more-than-half-of-european-union-votes-to-ban-growing-gm-crops/

by Original Quill Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:11 pm

New Scientist wrote:“Countries that are anti-GM also feed their animals GM feed,” says Spath. “It’s ironic that the countries that vote against approval of GM crops still import large amounts of GM ingredients for their animals.”

Indeed. Nature doesn't distinguish between crops for feed and edible crops for humans. Pollination happens across the street, and there's nothing to be done about it.

It's like your daughter getting pregnant by the n'ere-do-well from across the tracks. Shit like that happens!

by Tommy Monk Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:00 pm

We in uk don't want that either.

by veya_victaous Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:18 pm

if it were up to Tommy foreign inventions like Roads would be banned in the Uk too
lol!

by 'Wolfie Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:59 am

ROADS, horses, concrete, cats, plumbing, indoor toilets and bathrooms, medicine, education systems, pasta, tropical fruits, infernal combustion engines, bicycles, electricity, cars, telephone, aeroplanes, television, colourbond steel, organ transplants, the internet...

All of those "foreign" items, articles and inventions that have been introduced into the British Isles over the last 2,000 years -- none of them would have been there if it was left up to the likes of Tommy, Major and Scrat with their anti-foreigner rhetoric..

They'd all still be living in earth huts and walking everywhere, if progress and developmemts were left up to them.

Laughing

That way of thinking does indeed sound a lot like the "What have the Romans ever done for us ?" lines from Monty Python's "Life of Brian" , doesn't it..

https://youtu.be/ExWfh6sGyso

by JulesV Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:32 pm

It's scary and totally unethical that ONE firm would have control over a third of Europe's seed supply. This is basic food we are talking about, not a luxury. It's the start of a slippery slope.

Rich irony that the only other thing the company is famous for is the manufacture of indigestion tablets, alka seltzer.

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