How galling it must be to try to speak up a "technology" based only on emotion which is daily falling further and further behind as people see they are spending a lot of money for no additional benefit. And so we get this desperate ranting against GM while around the world more and more people, in more and more countries, are adopting it. Even the Brits in a recent poll voted 64% in favor of planting GM crops in the mother country. So grow up. All pesticides have the possibility of generating resistance and require proper management. But, boy, are they effective in reducing pests and increasing yields by reducing losses. The organic lobby doesn't like to talk much about that. Increased use of glyphosate (one of the least toxic chemicals, far less dangerous than the manure used by the organic brigade) is exactly one of those situations that needs careful management but how about all those pesticides that are now NOT being used because of being replaced by glyphosate? Not a whisper. It is galling but do try to grow up to face reality instead of for ever living in the land of dreams and illusions.
Wendell Phillips made this wonderful comment which still rings true:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty—power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with power becomes … the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."
Speech in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1852
Ditto!
We cut our ties with State Farm on June 1 of this year for the same reasons. I got a form letter back from the Regional Manager just giving me the "company line." They could care less until you and hundreds more do the same. I'm even paying a bit more and told them so.
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