I am a Forager for Whole Foods. This means that I actively search for local and regional vendors to bring them in as vendors into the store. I don't see this as 'preventing smaller producers from entering or expanding their share of the market.' It seems more like support to me.
When the reins are held by the "investors" of chemical companies, big oil, big pharma, weapons manufacturers, etc. etc. then we have a corporatocracy. They get to decide what sort of funding truly PUBLIC research labs get... and you end up with school budgets falling short, and relying on corporate grant monies. Same way for their donations to campaigns to get the Profiteer agenda rolling along on their behalf. The public interest is shoved aside, and policy and lawmaking and even decisions about tax dollars to support public works become a means to pursue the interests of the invested only ... and government and lawmaking and taxation and revenues and funding becomes a scheme that is concerned only about their own bottom line, their abiltiy to amass more wealth and gain control over our ability to be free, to be "independent". Instead, people are now prostate, begging for beneficence from our "leaders" in government and business. The "system" is ultimately corrupt from top to bottom, thoroughly. We need to rid ourselves of the "corporate person-hood", we need to rid ourselves of insider trading in government, we need to rid ourselves of "superpac money" in politics, or we become nothing more than their hamsters.
While i understand your concern about possible food contamination by 'dangerous' materials i do not see what is so dangerous about such genetically altered food as such round up ready seeds, with living in britain i have no-one planting such seeds here, yet statistically speaking with the fact that various seeds from the middle of america have been found here, having been picked up in the wind then there's as much chance of contamination here as there is there. But really what can we all do?
Do you want farmers to grow all their crops in massive greenhouses so nothing can come and contaminate the land? but what if it's already there?
Must they then raze their fields and grow nothing year for a few years to be sure? or what must they do if they find it already in their crops?
You want prducts free from various things, yet these are products your government assures you are safe to plant, and while you may not believe them, what can your farmers do if they accidentaly are contaminated? if you want rules in place to get such things out their food, then farmers will find theirselves with much undervalued or completley unsellable crop. This if nothing else will drive them to growing only GMO crops as while they may sell for less, they will not have to worry about any additional fines or fees due to finding their famrs crop went for evaluation, and was found contaminated.
All these questions to be answered for your worried and that's without even asking how to spot the contaminated food, many might suggest a long period of processing that would most likely not spot all the cases, and would triple the costs of the foods. While in my mind the easiest thing to do would be to add the fluorsecent marker to it that has been added to certain fish for a fancy new look, but i'd hate to think how much more people would be frightened of a crop made sturdier by us (something we've been doing since the stone ages) if it glowed in the dark.
What's the point? Bushco's DOJ will not prosecute... we will have to wait until we have a Democratic controlled Senate and House, with veto proof majorities before these asshat republican stooges get their deserved punishment.
commented (in <i>Deschooling Society</i>) that the education system is "the reproductive organ of a consumer society."
If that's how it is with public education, just imagine if all education were privatized!
I am a Forager for Whole Foods. This means that I actively search for local and regional vendors to bring them in as vendors into the store. I don't see this as 'preventing smaller producers from entering or expanding their share of the market.' It seems more like support to me.
While i understand your concern about possible food contamination by 'dangerous' materials i do not see what is so dangerous about such genetically altered food as such round up ready seeds, with living in britain i have no-one planting such seeds here, yet statistically speaking with the fact that various seeds from the middle of america have been found here, having been picked up in the wind then there's as much chance of contamination here as there is there. But really what can we all do?
Do you want farmers to grow all their crops in massive greenhouses so nothing can come and contaminate the land? but what if it's already there?
Must they then raze their fields and grow nothing year for a few years to be sure? or what must they do if they find it already in their crops?
You want prducts free from various things, yet these are products your government assures you are safe to plant, and while you may not believe them, what can your farmers do if they accidentaly are contaminated? if you want rules in place to get such things out their food, then farmers will find theirselves with much undervalued or completley unsellable crop. This if nothing else will drive them to growing only GMO crops as while they may sell for less, they will not have to worry about any additional fines or fees due to finding their famrs crop went for evaluation, and was found contaminated.
All these questions to be answered for your worried and that's without even asking how to spot the contaminated food, many might suggest a long period of processing that would most likely not spot all the cases, and would triple the costs of the foods. While in my mind the easiest thing to do would be to add the fluorsecent marker to it that has been added to certain fish for a fancy new look, but i'd hate to think how much more people would be frightened of a crop made sturdier by us (something we've been doing since the stone ages) if it glowed in the dark.
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