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In reply to the discussion: Monsanto Fingerprints Found all Over Attack on Organic Food [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)82. Organic doesn't mean no chemicals, which is a well debunked myth
Some of the chemicals used by the organic industry are far more toxic and far less tested than their non-"organic"-certified alternatives, and it often takes far more applications for them to be effective.
I couldn't care less if people eat road apples. Do whatever makes you feel better. What you do or don't do on the food you grow yourself isn't all that relative to the "organic" marketing gimmick. The term does not mean safer or more nutritious or pretty much anything claimed by those who promote it.
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I was just about to add that! They are constitutionally incapable of civil discussion.
villager
Jul 2016
#9
When Cheney said food is a weapon, this now reveals the large corporate dark world he spoke for.
ancianita
Jul 2016
#2
You keep making unsupported claims about glyphosate being carcinogenic...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#56
They are not unsupported - and the lawsuits are coming big time and Monsanto is going to pay
womanofthehills
Jul 2016
#60
Thanks. So much goes by so fast around here that it's good to get as many reposts as possible.
ancianita
Jul 2016
#69
We've had decades of useless belief in spite of evidence that petitions are asking-nicely useless.
ancianita
Jul 2016
#71
Monsanto sells organic seeds. It makes plenty of money on the organic industry scam, too.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#6
Why repost this shit again? What next? Chemtrails controlling our thoughts? Your tinfoil hat is...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#11
And yet, every day, you waste time trying to convince others of the same fictions.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#101
Busted, patseg. Don't dig yourself into a deeper hole by denying it and deflecting.
Nitram
Jul 2016
#147
The fact is that Monsanto makes organic seed, why would they attack a part of the market they...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#16
The Big O organic industry is not for transparency, but spreading FUD,
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#35
None of the claims you made are even factual, much less matching reality...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#126
Its downplayed because you are just spouting a word salad of nonsense...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#133
An opinion piece from an open-source journal that publishes Seralini & has almost no impact factor?
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#135
Wow! You just showed a level of ignorance way beyond what I would have even imagined.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#138
And then you double down, and mention a completely different source than the one you used.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#141
Of course it doesn't, instead it uses much more toxic chemicals, such as Copper Sulfate. n/t
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#124
It is indeed, conspiratorial thinking to believe a market force would look to its own profit
LanternWaste
Jul 2016
#20
Oh, it goes far beyond that, the premise here is that the entire scientific establishment is owned..
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#21
So your assuming a cause when you have no evidence to support your assumed cause.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#118
Ah, so you think that asking you to support your claims is derision and ridicule.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#151
If you think organic is a scam, just go ahead and eat your food loaded with glyphsate
womanofthehills
Jul 2016
#89
You always say that anyone who disagrees with you believes in chemtails.
womanofthehills
Jul 2016
#44
No, they just display the same paranoid tendencies and display a lack of...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#50
The 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, and chemtrail nutbags have gone the way of the dodo around here
Major Nikon
Jul 2016
#73
We will keep reposting this "shit" until Monsanto takes the glyphosate out of our food
womanofthehills
Jul 2016
#87
I'm in my local Rainbow Grocery co-op four times a week. I know I pay more, but I support the store
NBachers
Jul 2016
#22
There is no evidence that the food is healthier, where do you get your information? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#39
The organic industry pushed for "Certified Organic" labels, then immediately went in to try to...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#34
And if their "organic" food is so great, why do they need to demonize the competition?
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#36
A few months ago I read several Opening Posts, which claimed Monsanto had paid Trolls working at DU.
Jeffersons Ghost
Jul 2016
#42
What "conspiracy theory?" I simply reported that reasonable sounding OPs reported monsanto trolls
Jeffersons Ghost
Jul 2016
#62
There's also people who promote nonsense bought and paid for by Big-OrganicŪ
Major Nikon
Jul 2016
#84
Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that "more nutritious" makes no sense.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#85
Nor does it take much grey matter to figure out the other claims make no sense
Major Nikon
Jul 2016
#90
Well again, I make a distinction between GMO technology itself and one specific use case
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#106
Well, in 2014 hippie crunchy granola Oregon -defeated- a GMO labeling initiative.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#109
Again, I don't put all organic food and anti-GMO hysteria in the same bucket.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#139
I've shot down a few of these @DU & got one to self delete ..links are hardly independent sources
Person 2713
Jul 2016
#59