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In the discussion thread: Outrageous! Why are people opposed to GM rice which saves lives and prevents blindness? [View all]

Response to True Earthling (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 08:34 AM

ibegurpard (11,038 posts)

65. can this genetically modified rice produce its own seeds?

or will people have to constantly be purchasing replacement seeds from the producer? Is the producer of it the "owner"...meaning everyone who plants it will have to pay them a licensing fee?
How does a genetically modified plant fit into the natural ecosystem?

It all sounds great until you start looking at the potential downsides.

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82 replies	Author	Time	Post
Outrageous! Why are people opposed to GM rice which saves lives and prevents blindness? [View all]	True Earthling	May 2012	OP
Some of us aren't so much against it...	randome	May 2012	#1
........	marmar	May 2012	#2
+1 (nt)	NYC_SKP	May 2012	#3
Fantastic, thanks!	drokhole	May 2012	#6
That is an old article - There is a new strain that yields 10X more Vitamin A	True Earthling	May 2012	#7
Give it up. Your OP source has been exposed as a fraud.	marmar	May 2012	#8
I don't care if the article was written by George Bush	True Earthling	May 2012	#10
More reading for you......	marmar	May 2012	#14
There's a lot of gullible people in the world	tabasco	May 2012	#22
Very true - on both sides of the aisle.	True Earthling	May 2012	#23
The article you posted was inaccurate...	True Earthling	May 2012	#12
Umm, I'll trust Vandana Shiva over some crackpot industry shill any day.	marmar	May 2012	#15
Yes I knew that.... and I didn't call you a fraud.	True Earthling	May 2012	#19
Vitamin A & beta-carotene are easy to get from food. There are lots of good sources.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#45
There may be no one more credible on this topic than Vandana Shiva.	EFerrari	May 2012	#16
No use arguing with luddites.	Odin2005	May 2012	#17
Who mentioned Monsanto? You interjected it, and now you're calling people Luddites?	marmar	May 2012	#18
Why do you hate leafy greens and orange-fleshed squash	kestrel91316	May 2012	#39
I don't. I love baby spinach. False Dichotomy.	Odin2005	May 2012	#42
Why do you hate children having well-balanced diets, instead of diets consisting mostly of	HiPointDem	May 2012	#46
This is a lot more complicated than I thought.	True Earthling	May 2012	#49
Because free rice undercuts market prices, not just for rice but also for other staple grains. When	HiPointDem	May 2012	#53
But the plan for Golden Rice is for farmers to grow it...	True Earthling	May 2012	#56
Maybe you should ask yourself which farmers. Look past the PR.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#58
In Nigeria the small family farmers were driven off their land which the peanut farms then occupied	jwirr	May 2012	#77
Bingo.	jwirr	May 2012	#76
*	ronnie624	May 2012	#79
"expected...potential...depend on" - any hard data published that would prove the claims?	Prometheus Bound	May 2012	#35
There is a clinical trial by Tufts University	True Earthling	May 2012	#43
I see. There is no proof of the claims. So this thread is a waste of time.	Prometheus Bound	May 2012	#66
Wait, you are citing a study not even finished yet???	obamanut2012	May 2012	#72
Hear! Hear!	burrowowl	May 2012	#32
Personally, I think your source author is a crackpot:	NYC_SKP	May 2012	#4
Ridley is not so easy to pin down	pscot	May 2012	#9
Bjørn Lomborg? Just for the record, his PhD is in political science not nutrition.	Prometheus Bound	May 2012	#5
How about Ingo Potrykus?	True Earthling	May 2012	#11
Because people think just because Monstanto misuses genetic engineering...	Odin2005	May 2012	#13
You really like to pen OPs with right wing memes	stevenleser	May 2012	#20
Since when is wanting to save lives and prevent blindness a "right wing meme"?	True Earthling	May 2012	#21
Nope, that is not why me and others are here. We are here to talk with other	stevenleser	May 2012	#24
Not a republican	True Earthling	May 2012	#27
The CATO Institute is funded by the Koch brothers and big corporations.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#28
Where's the connection to the Cato Institute?	True Earthling	May 2012	#29
The author of your OP is a frequent contributor to CATO.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#30
I admit I do like Ridley so guilty as charged..	True Earthling	May 2012	#33
This line sounds like classic Cato double speak.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#41
But But Read His Profile	HangOnKids	May 2012	#68
The OP is an obvious RW troll. I give him another 2 weeks.	kestrel91316	May 2012	#40
Yep, obvious troll is obvious. They all think they are being slick. nt	stevenleser	May 2012	#44
yeah, i think their strategy to post the most controversial issues..	DCBob	May 2012	#59
I called it last September-	Starry Messenger	May 2012	#50
With your link that is three posts with right wing memes. Unfortunately, poster has too many	stevenleser	May 2012	#54
I believe you are correct.	Starry Messenger	May 2012	#57
MIRT can PRR them with +100 posts	obamanut2012	May 2012	#64
You and Starry are mistaken	obamanut2012	May 2012	#63
Yup, I first notived it	obamanut2012	May 2012	#62
So you've noticed that too?	obamanut2012	May 2012	#61
in the meantime, is anyone trying to provide these people with regular vitamin A?	eShirl	May 2012	#25
They can get plenty of Vitamin A from eating leafy greens and	kestrel91316	May 2012	#38
Charity rice from america undercuts prices in their ag sector, meaning small farmers lose their land	HiPointDem	May 2012	#47
Absolutely true. This led to starvation in Haiti.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#52
I Was In A Focus Group About This in 2000	otohara	May 2012	#26
Because it is easy to ask other people to die for YOUR principles	Sen. Walter Sobchak	May 2012	#31
Charity rice from america is making it impossible for traditional agriculture to exist. It	HiPointDem	May 2012	#48
traditional agriculture doesn't need to exist	Sen. Walter Sobchak	May 2012	#51
It doesn't have to feed 7 billion people. And neither is hi-tech agriculture feeding 7 billion	HiPointDem	May 2012	#55
The problem being that agribusiness won't feed six or seven or however many billion people..	Fumesucker	May 2012	#67
Modern agriculture most certainly will, if it is allowed to...	Sen. Walter Sobchak	May 2012	#80
Where's the profit in feeding the starving?	Fumesucker	May 2012	#81
This message was self-deleted by its author	Mnemosyne	May 2012	#34
Wow. Another RW talking point from you. Amazing.	kestrel91316	May 2012	#36
Because Vit A a/o beta-carotene are so easy to find in foods that the only reason kids would	HiPointDem	May 2012	#37
GM food, along with the "Green Revolution", has done a good job feeding the world's population	bhikkhu	May 2012	#60
can this genetically modified rice produce its own seeds?	ibegurpard	May 2012	#65
Those are the real questions that need answering. Farmers in Africa and around the world have	jwirr	May 2012	#78
Why are people opposed?	99Forever	May 2012	#69
+1. Why do GM companies oppose their products being labeled "GM"? That's the real argument. nt	Honeycombe8	May 2012	#73
The answer to that is obvious.	99Forever	May 2012	#75
How about this?	sendero	May 2012	#70
I was thinking that, too	obamanut2012	May 2012	#74
Because it actually doesn't?	quaker bill	May 2012	#71
why not add carrots and sweet potatoes to their diets instead	magical thyme	May 2012	#82

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