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  • #16
    Re: Re: WTO to EU: You'll eat GM food and like it!

    Originally posted by KrazyHorse
    Good. Now give us back our 5 billion dollars.
    I'm sorry. I don't have it on me.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #17
      Most of the insulin for diabetics comes from transgenic bacteria.

      Anti-GM people hate diabetics.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


        We should make sure that the Theory of Evolution is absolutely true with no holes before teaching it to our children
        Congratulations on making a nonsensical anaolgy.
        Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

        Do It Ourselves

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Spiffor
          Good luck imposing this ruling.
          pretty much sums up the reality of the situation.
          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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          • #20
            I agree with you General!

            Originally posted by General Ludd


            Congratulations on making a nonsensical anaolgy.
            bleh

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            • #21
              What benefits has America gained from switching to GM?

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              • #22
                Yields are skyrocketing.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #23
                  @Dans
                  I'm curious to see how are reacting the market.
                  Do you have any figures? Quantity and prices?

                  Thanks!
                  bleh

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by General Ludd
                    Congratulations on making a nonsensical anaolgy.
                    From one luddite position to another. It's a good analogy .
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by DanS
                      Yields are skyrocketing.
                      so benefits to society at large are lower prices I guess, or do the profits generated by higher yields go into licences?
                      Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                      GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                      • #26
                        Yields and area planted for corn (maize). Notice the recent yield spike to over 160 bushels an acre. About a 30 bushel an acre improvement in 3 years.



                        Stocks-to-use and prices for corn.

                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #27
                          @Dans

                          Thanks!
                          bleh

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                          • #28
                            How do you know that increase is down to GM?

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                            • #29
                              so if I am reading this right the prices are not expected to fall any further but to stabilise above 2.5 $/bushel...

                              but yes there is a spike, which is probably the last bit of "non projected data", and the price fell at the same time it seems, but the corelation does not seem to follow totally... the second graph would suggest - lots of unused stocks, price falls and otherwise, which is to be expected. This is more "stocks management" than GMO related - ie, bigger yields thus more stocks, thus lower prices. I guess the prices will be stable one way or another, perhaps less land will be needed to produce adequate quantities of crops or some such benefit in case of US, plus the compensation to the companies providing seeds, but at least according to the graphs you presented there is no expectation or indication that the price itself should fall due to increased yield.
                              Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                              GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Sandman
                                How do you know that increase is down to GM?
                                I don't know the precise breakout of the increase due to GM versus other technologies that were adopted at the same time, such as precision farming. However, the uptake of use of GM seeds has been rather dramatic over the last 5 years, and now the majority of corn planted in the US is GM. My sense is that the bulk of the difference is due to GM crops, but am willing to entertain information to the contrary.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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