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?Impact

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  1. Very true that, and this one has to be just about the best. It seems of course that the trait is genetic.
  2. How is one supposed to protect themselves from a confirmed liar? You are right however she should have shot back that Trump is a serial racist, because the evidence of that is much stronger.
  3. I already answered that. The difference is the eons of testing that occur before you foist your frankenfood onto the whole of humanity. One genetic mutation before was localized and took forever to scale to a regional, national, continental, and finally global scale. That gave a long time for it to be thoroughly tested. Today the GM foods are taking over, and at a global scale within a few short years. The processed foods that include the GM foods are scaling even faster in weeks.
  4. Humans cause global changes in the worlds food supply, something that has never before occurred. Even in countries that have tried to keep out GMO foods, we see them creeping in and overtaking others. It is time to sue the shyte out of the GMO companies for contaminating our environment with their creations. If they want to patent something, but release it into the environment, then they should be sued out of existence. b.t.w. Orange carrots have been around for thousands of years, and probably much more but that is a limitation of documentation. The Dutch farmers used selective breeding to bring out only the orange and sweetest ones, no mutations needed. In fact if you cut open a purple carrot, the most common species a few hundred years ago, you will see it contains orange colouring inside as well. I am not promoting selective breeding, for example we have seen some of the issues it has created in dogs.
  5. It certainly would be an economic boon to the immigration industry (lawyers, consultants, educators, and others who facilitate the immigration process). No time to discuss, I have to register my Canadian Values Coaching business. If you are interested, I have a franchise opportunity available.
  6. No, I already explained this before. Our diet has been altered, but in general the plants have not - we just happen to cultivate a less diverse number. I agree that plants created through accelerated mutation (e.g radiation) should be labelled. They are not however the same as GMO, not by a long shot.
  7. Who wrote the report you are talking about? If you mean the actual court decision, that is easy to find. The COMER website is also easy to find.
  8. Genetic modification is nothing like nature. There are not millions of years to sort out what plant species are poisonous. The potatoes you cite above, they naturally contain solanine which yes is a poison. Potatoes are part of the nightshade family of plants, which includes tomatoes and eggplants among many others. Some of the subgenera of this family like Solanum dulcamara are highly poisonous, but we won't find them on the dinner table (although there are some in the past that used them as 'medicine' just like doctors used to bleed people). The levels in cultivated for food varieties however are low enough in the tuber or fruit that the poison is not an issue, while unripe fruit or the green part of the plant may be. Yes, as man learned to breed potatoes he might have picked some of the strains that were high in solanine levels and grew them in a [near] monoculture. Yes we did learn from that mistake and started to do better testing. When are we going to learn from the GMO mistake of substantial equivalency?
  9. Really, I don't see anything in there about crossing corn with bacteria except under genetic modification.
  10. Um, err, um, the GST was a Conservative initiative, not something the lying liberals foisted on conservative Canadians.
  11. What specifically are you referencing? I assume this is the COMER (William Krehm & Ann Emmett) vs. Bank of Canada lawsuit that was thrown out and costs awarded to the Bank of Canada, but is there a specific 'report' you are talking about.
  12. Table 15 includes both accumulated deficit and interest bearing debt. Yes, it is important to look at interest bearing debt as well, for example during the Harper budgets the interest bearing debt increased by $350 billion ($332 billion if you want to give him credit for the massive surplus he inherited on a golden platter).
  13. Yes, our diet has changed over the past 200 years but that is not due to new strains but the reduction of the diversity of strains. There have been many efforts in recent years to reverse some of that by increasing diversification. Look at carrots for example, a couple of hundred years ago the Dutch wanted a perfect orange one and bred out all of the other colours. Today we are returning to a mix, the purple carrots are closer to the diet we would have had years ago but the yellow and white ones also existed then although fewer in numbers than we see in the market today. Of course manufacturing food has changed our diet about 1000 fold more than any of that. GMO is completely different, it is taking parts of other organisms (bacteria in the case of corn and soybeans) and inserting them into the plant. This is not breeding out diversity, it is modification of the fundamental DNA. In the case of corn and soybeans they are modified to resist the poison chemicals that kill most plants that we are now saturating the soil with. That way farmers can dump megatons of poison into the earth to kill everything but their mono crop. Of course that soil is now contaminated for years, decades, perhaps centuries. Every year we dump more of their poison into the soil and its concentration increases. Monsanto, Dupont and other have their own ideology, it is called greed. They want to hide everything in order to push their chemical poison.
  14. Table 15 of the Fiscal Reference Tables is the most relevant when looking at history of debt.
  15. So the frig is Trump, ergo his 'private' conversations must be made public or else the world will stop spinning.
  16. I think the topic gives us a lot of latitude. Note the OP simply says title says it all. Predictions are based on lessons learned from history.
  17. While Mulroney did gut some individual programs like the Canadian Forces, the one and only year he reduced his overall spending was by $700 million where Trudeau Sr. actually cut overall spending by $2.4 billion 2 years earlier.
  18. Non-GMO plants have thousands and thousands of years of scrutiny. GMO plants are deemed safe on the false premise of substantial equivalency. It is companies like Monsanto, the people that brought us safe PCBs, DDT, agent orange and a whole host of others that tell us they deem their GM plants safe. They don't undergo any scrutiny from independent researchers, and Bush Sr. cozied up to them to ensure that the FDA was crippled.
  19. No, that is wrong. The allegation is that Clinton was given some questions to the Democratic primary debate, although CNN denies this is possible. There has never been an allegation she was given questions to the Presidential debate, at least not from credible sources. Going to your favourite conspiracy website and extrapolating from nothing is not credible, with that logic Trump is a rapist, murder, and eats more babies than Harper.
  20. No, it is not. Provide evidence that her email server was compromised. I am not saying it wasn't, but nothing has been leaked from it and nobody has offered evidence it was compromised. Could it have been? Of course, when the Whitehouse, DNC, Pentagon, and may other email servers have been compromised there is nothing to say it is impossible. I am just pointing out the fact that there is no public knowledge of it happening.
  21. Look at the legal and social trouble Monsanto has generated towards anyone that tried to study any of their GMO plants. They launched lawsuits, they attacked viciously on social media, they had people fired through their connections, they did everything to make studying GMO plants impossible. It will be no different with Bayer at the helm, they are about the one company in the world that has a worse reputation than Monsanto. No, GMO plants have not been the most studied. If you want to present facts, then substantiate them and stop making up bogus arguments.
  22. Really, someone becomes a hero by being an actor? Only a alt-righty would think that way.
  23. True, but he can't twit without looking stupid either.
  24. So far your concerns about Islam in Canada has been talking about Muslim countries, so what is wrong about talking about Christian countries as well. That is 100% equivalent comparison, equally valid or invalid.
  25. No, it appeals to people who want to be informed and not have giant chemical companies dictate what they eat because it fills their pocketbooks. You made the claim that GMO are the same as non-GMO and here is a study that proves it is not. Yes, it is a study of only one plant, mind you it is one of the most widely used GMO plants and the same strain of bacteria they spliced into that plant they use in many others including the second most widely used one soybeans. This proves that GMO plants need to be studied more and the automatic exemption that George Bush Sr. gave to them is wrong. We want information, and not the vested interests doing everything to hide it from us.
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