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posted by martyb on Monday July 02 2018, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-wait-until-the-Ents-get-loose dept.

High Country News reports:

[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.

Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by EETech1 on Monday July 02 2018, @11:56PM (3 children)

    by EETech1 (957) on Monday July 02 2018, @11:56PM (#701642)

    What bothers me Is not the fact that the GMO plant doesn't die when they cover it with poison...

    It's the fact that they seem to think it's just fine to cover my food with poison before selling it to me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:41AM (#701729)

    So you're afraid of chocolate because it's poison to dogs? Insects aren't human. However, everyone keeps ignoring all the additives they add to the poison to make it easier to spread. That's where the issues are. Plenty of studies have shown that the chemical is safe enough for humans. Plenty of other studies have shown toxic results from those who apply the product and work around it. If you pay attention, the safe studies and toxic studies are studying two different things even through everyone and the media uses the same name for everything. Since no one is lying and both sides have valid proof on their sides, everyone's arguments go nowhere and nothing changes.

    • (Score: 2) by EETech1 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:39AM

      by EETech1 (957) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:39AM (#701744)

      No, I'm not afraid of chocolate, but if someone genetically engineered a dog that shit something that looked like chocolate, smelled like chocolate, and even tasted like chocolate, would you mind if this cheaper dog shit chocolate was served to you instead?

      Would the fact that it's actually dog shit bother you?

      And I don't know why it matters that insects aren't human?

      As far as arguing about if the binder is more dangerous than the chemical within it that destroys cell replication, I'm sticking with my original opinion that not having the poison on your food has to be better. I guess it's a bonus that they won't be spreading around the toxic binder as well. Ditto for everyone not poisoned applying these totally safe chemicals.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 05 2018, @12:21PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 05 2018, @12:21PM (#702934) Journal

    What bothers me Is not the fact that the GMO plant doesn't die when they cover it with poison...

    While that's an interesting mental trainwreck to watch, why do you think they'd spray an herbicide on a plant right before they take it off the lot and put it on your plate?