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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #30 on Jun 13, 2011, 12:34am » | |
I'm not sure I'm the only one misinterpreting things here:
Jun 12, 2011, 9:58pm, kerouac2 wrote:| Obviously none of us want to eat pesticides, but that is not an issue for a lot of those GM foods, since they were created not to need pesticides. |
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Monsanto's Roundup-Ready crops are created to be RESISTANT to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, so that farmers can spray with impunity, killing only the weeds, not the crop. How does that make them less toxic than organic crops?
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #31 on Jun 13, 2011, 5:23am » | |
Because they can wash off the pesticide with a new chemical bath after harvesting!
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #32 on Jun 13, 2011, 8:33am » | |
aaaarghhhhh! you make me sick with anger! you've been brainwashed, K2. I am not going to comment just now because I am shaking like a leaf in a storm.
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Dans les grandes choses, les hommes se montrent comme il leur convient de se montrer; dans les petites, ils se montrent comme ils sont. |
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #33 on Jun 13, 2011, 2:33pm » | |
methinks perhaps his tongue was planted in his chemical coated cheek?
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #34 on Jun 13, 2011, 2:55pm » | |
Who, me? (I think dry cleaning fluid might work.)
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #35 on Jun 13, 2011, 7:19pm » | |
have I been had by a frog?
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #36 on Jun 13, 2011, 8:12pm » | |
Organic or radioactively modified?
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|  | Re: E. Coli - a stupid question « Reply #39 on Jul 5, 2011, 9:13pm » | |
And now they are saying that the outbreaks in Hamburg and Bordeaux all started out in Egypt. Can we ever be sure?
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