Hawaii bans genetically modified taro and coffee on Big Island

Just because they use a virus or bacteria shell to deliver the altered DNA doesn't make it itself a virus. Your just looking for a way to make this look bad when it really doesn't. I am honestly really getting really sick of this attitude towards GM food. Fear mongering is wrong.

Treaper405,

Good point - absolutely right.

Fear mongering IS wrong. I dare you to find anyone who disagrees and says that fear mongering is OK.

That said, equally wrong, is the pollyanna belief that the only possible reason to mistrust a commercial and haphazardly regulated science which is unproven at best and blind guessing at worst, must be the result of fear mongering.

Granted you have a nice straw man argument. Beyond that - you offer nothing which refutes the concerns expressed on this page.

Try harder.

Can you produce any good it's done? Look at the Monsanto tag here if you want evidence.

The scientific evidence that altering specific genes can produce more nutricious produce and higher crop yields; can you really deny the potentially massive implications for starving nations?!

thats what they sold to you as the notion of GM foods. Oh we'll save starving nations and make food better for you!

Now research the BT gene and how its expressed in the cell. Then argue your point.

Remember farmers and retailers are NOT required to lable the product as GM'd.

Talk to a farmer or as scientist and get the truth. Better still produce your scientific evidence. If you do you'd be the first here who would have after spouting off the same talking points. Again, the information included here in the Monsanto tag disputes everything you just typed and it has been disputed by real farmers. If you won't read it, it isn't my problem. GM foods do not produce higher yields than conventional crops, and Monsanto's policy of forcing poor farmers to buy seeds yearly as they cannot replant seeds is actually driving farmers into poverty.

Matter of fact, the scientists for the FDA who did testing wrote a report claiming it produced allergies and possible cancers, but they were ignored in lieu of making profit. So again, if you wish to eat BT foods that are actually insecticides sprayed with ROUNDUP go to it. If you trust a company that made and then lied about Agent Orange and PCBS while poisoning an entire town of people, go eat their bacteria food. However, those of us who actually give a damn about the environment, biodiversity, natural agriculture and preserving this planet while feeding people with NATURAL food will continue to fight the BS and lies about "feeding the world" as it starves being spewed by Monsanto and their PR minions.

rwylie,

Since turnabout is fair play...

A new troll! Welcome!

Feel free to use your brain in the event that you locate one nearby. Mildly stated, if anything you're a feckless and sloppy composer of industrial puff-pieces. A mentality that would put dog shit in platinum tins and pitch it as,"Valuable Collector Receptacles! Now with added Vitamins A and D! Hurry! Supplies Limited!"

Do get a grip. Can you? What coffee growers have been doing for centuries has nothing to do with artificially inserting animal genes into food and radically denaturing products against toxic pesticides. Naturally this distinction would never occur to a corporate hack, but let the thought sink in..

What GM Nazis are attempting to do is simple

1/ gloss over recklessly contaminating the environment,

2/ grossly violate natural law,

3. mindlessly toy with whether a human population safely can ingest genetically adulterated produce without being harmed long term,

4/ indulge in a zero sum game of shunting all experimental hazard onto the general public. A public forced by bribed or coerced politicians unwittingly to consume this detritus, rather than remain healthy "in the clumsy roundabout way that we had to before" during a million or so years of evolution.

5/ GM is yet another dumb abuse of science, politics and law by a commerce gone predatory - an arrogant attempt to monopolize the human food supply.

Naturally, GM weenies (the worst kind of abusive parrot-like snob) gush orasmically at any new way to make money by ownership of natural life. Because profit alone is the bottom line: the best customer is a hostage.. What's next sport? Addictive breakfast cereals? In platinum tins?

It may have escaped your fleeting attention span but Science doesn't require any general population to "produce any credible evidence that GM is bad." Science does require that such products first be tested longitudinally - independently - before ever being released. That hasn't happened. So accusing the public of unfairly mistrusting industry is at best asinine.

Of course, mistrusting corporations regarded by many as the worst on earth that would offend you, given that you take the virginal purity of commerce for granted. By extension Bush must have seemed a Godsend to your mentality. How will you cope without him?

One final oddity. You absolutely demand negative proof, yet never once cite any primary sources for any of your positivist hyperbole. Isn't it odd though, that after decades of hyping the bullshit idea that - "we're doing this for starving nations" - there is absolutely no evidence that this now, or has ever been, the case?

And these abstracts of abstracts you pretend that amount to 'scientific evidence' proving that altering specific genes can produce more nutricious produce and higher crop yields, who funded these? When? Where are they?

Why so shy with your evidence? It couldn't be obviously and blatantly biased - could it?

The marketing crap you spout is a feeble panomime to mask the worst instincts of our most devious money grubbing corporations. But alas, between Vierotchka and JanforGore you've been bested. Do keep trying.

It's entertaining.

Until your crops get wiped out by disease and the GM ones don't.