Comments for Anderson: What are GMOs and why should you care? at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8530 "JMadison, this ordnance does nothing to prohibit lab-type work of the kind you mentioned, it ONLY applies to crops grown in an open, uncontrolable environment where GMOs WILL contaminate other growers crops. There is NO way to control pollen drift, and with our small growing areas buffer zones are not an option." Thank you for pointing that out. In addition, not only pollen but seeds can be carried for miles through many carriers (bees, insects, animals, birds) to contaminate the environment as well as other crops. - purplegirl Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:19:45 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8522 JMadison, this ordnance does nothing to prohibit lab-type work of the kind you mentioned, it ONLY applies to crops grown in an open, uncontrolable environment where GMOs WILL contaminate other growers crops. There is NO way to control pollen drift, and with our small growing areas buffer zones are not an option. - smurf Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:14:18 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8519 For those of you that read Ms. Larsons work, know that I\'m not a fan of most people that work for our government. There is little done by them thats not for their best enterest.Their justification for how they control us or their actions in our name is appalling.I will not go into what they allow themselfs so their ends are met. If we are going to permit this on the market? Then put a warning label so all know and large enough to read. Then all of you that would like to trust can partake. My experience has shown, be very,very,very leery. - James Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:55:41 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8518 know if your talking diet and lack of exercise induced diabetes or the \'you picked the wrong parents\' type of diabetes. Does the patient have the right to purchase one type of insulin over the other? Do insurance companies give you a choice? How long has it been on the market? How long has it been studied? I\'m sorry but I no longer trust the FDA when they say a drug is safe, they rely far to much on the data from the drug\'s manufacturer, sometimes with great harm to the public. Thank you to Ms. Anderson - great, informative article. - Donna Christopher Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:39:13 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8513 Do we choose to ignore the huge befefits of genetic engineering? How about the fact that we can now mass produce human insulin after splicing the gene into bacteria that produce the protein, and then harvest it. People no longer have to buy more expensive beef or pork insulin. Does anyone think that this isn\'t wonderful? - jmadison Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:56:10 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6011/925/#comment-8511 Back in the 70\'s and 80\'s, when GMOs were first being created, I was an enthusiastic supporter of their use. GMO plants were supposed to [i]reduce[/i] the need for pesticides, fix nitrogen in the soil so they didn\'t need much fertilizer, grow in saltier soil with less irrigation, etc., etc. However, somewhere along the line corporate greed began to be the controlling factor in the development of GMOs. Instead of GMOs developed to increase human health and freedom we now see GMOs with a [i]higher[/i] tolerance for herbicide, inviting the indiscriminate use of environmental poisons. The scariest thing about GMOs is that they have the potential for not only reducing the number of cultivars (\"cultivated varieties\") of domesticated species, making these species more vulnerable to diseases and pests, but of the potential for control of the food supply they give to the corporate apparatus. I trust the family farmer who grows his own locally adapted cultivars from his own seed far more than corporate executives seeking to displace the local products with ones they can control. I hope the Board of Supervisors recognizes the gravity of this problem and will prohibit cultivation of GMOs in Lake County. - futhark Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:03:37 +0100