F-You Monsanto Bayer crispr Clintons

AZGAL · Oct 6, 2016

OK so wake up and drink that Big Gulp of Monsanto genetically engineered soda pop sugar Baby!

Kosh · Oct 6, 2016

aaronleland · Oct 6, 2016

Okie Dokie.

Dot Com · Oct 8, 2016

AZGAL said:
OK so wake up and drink that Big Gulp of Monsanto genetically engineered soda pop sugar Baby!

I like your environmental awareness 'tude

waltky · Oct 23, 2017

Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs...

CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs
October 23, 2017 - Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists report that they have created 12 healthy pigs with about 24 percent less body fat than normal pigs. The scientists created low-fat pigs in the hopes of providing pig farmers with animals that would be less expensive to raise and would suffer less in cold weather. "This is a big issue for the pig industry," says Jianguo Zhao of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who led the research. "It's pretty exciting." The animals have less body fat because they have a gene that allows them to regulate their body temperatures better by burning fat. That could save farmers millions of dollars in heating and feeding costs, as well as prevent millions of piglets from suffering and dying in cold weather. "They could maintain their body temperature much better, which means that they could survive better in the cold weather," Zhao said in an interview.

Other researchers call the advance significant. "This is a paper that is technologically quite important," says R. Michael Roberts, a professor in the department of animal sciences at the University of Missouri, who edited the paper for the scientific journal. "It demonstrates a way that you can improve the welfare of animals at the same as also improving the product from those animals — the meat." But Roberts doubts the Food and Drug Administration would approve a genetically modified pig for sale in the United States. He's also skeptical that Americans would eat GMO pig meat. "I very much doubt that this particular pig will ever be imported into the USA — one thing — and secondly, whether it would ever be allowed to enter the food chain," he says. The FDA has approved a genetically modified salmon, but the approval took decades and has been met with intense opposition from environmental and food-safety groups.

Scientists have used a new gene-editing technique to create pigs that can keep their bodies warmer, burning more fat to produce leaner meat. Infrared pictures of 6-month-old pigs taken at zero, two, and four hours after cold exposure show that the pigs' thermoregulation was improved after insertion of the new gene. The modified pigs are on the right side of the images.

Others say they hope genetically modified livestock will eventually become more acceptable to regulators and the public. "The population of our planet is predicted to reach about 10 billion by 2050, and we need to use modern genetic approaches to help us increase the food supply to feed that growing population," says Chris Davies, an associate professor in the school of veterinary medicine at Utah State University in Salt Lake City. Zhao says he doubts the genetic modification would affect the taste of meat from the pigs. "Since the pig breed we used in this study is famous for the meat quality, we assumed that the genetic modifications will not affect the taste of the meat," he wrote in an email. The Chinese scientists created the animals using a new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9. It enables scientists to make changes in DNA much more easily and precisely than ever before.

Pigs lack a gene, called UPC1, which most other mammals have. The gene helps animals regulate their body temperatures in cold temperatures. The scientists edited a mouse version of the gene into pig cells. They then used those cells to create more than 2,553 cloned pig embryos. Next, scientists implanted the genetically modified cloned pig embryos into 13 female pigs. Three of the female surrogate mother pigs became pregnant, producing 12 male piglets, the researchers report. Tests on the piglets showed they were much better at regulating their body temperatures than normal pigs. They also had about 24 percent less fat on their bodies, the researchers report. "People like to eat the pork with less fat but higher lean meat," Zhao says. The animals were slaughtered when they were six months old so scientists could analyze their bodies. They seemed perfectly healthy and normal, Zhao says. At least one male even mated, producing healthy offspring, he says.

CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

Fort Fun Indiana · Oct 26, 2017

Awesome tech!

AZGAL · Jun 21, 2018

From AG Daily news:
Monsanto BioAg products will now be offered under the newly formed Acceleron BioAg brand, as part of a larger seed treatment portfolio rebranding effort with Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions products. With this transition, the Acceleron BioAg and Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions brands will now make up an overarching Acceleron portfolio, offering a comprehensive package of synthetic chemistry and biological seed treatment products.

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AZGAL · Jun 21, 2018

Trial Reforms of “Insurance Plus Futures”: Evaluation Results and Policy Options（No.77, 2017）
2017-10-09
By Zhu Junsheng, Research Institute of Finance, DRC & Ye Minghua, East China Normal University
Research report No.77, 2017 (Total 5152) 2017-7-18

Abstract: The trial reforms of “insurance Plus futures” is an active practice of developing market-based management for reducing the risk of food price. Compared with grain spread subsidy and the policy of purchasing grain at minimum prices in order to prevent grain prices from further dropping, the premium subsidy of “insurance Plus futures” has certain advantage than temporary storage cost. It can achieve the gradient effect of farmers’ price risk transfer, and give full scope to the technical advantages of actuarial and risk management of insurance and futures companies.

AZGAL · Jul 3, 2018

Bayer Bought Monsanto and Is Now Stuck With Its Biggest Headache
A blockbuster herbicide is still causing trouble across farm country.
Tom Philpott Jun. 29, 2018 6:00 AM

It’s happening again. In states from Mississippi to Indiana, some US soybean farmers are seeing a troubling sight: Previously healthy plants begin to look wan, their leaves puckering into a cup-like shape. Similar symptoms are hitting trees, ornamental and garden plants, flowers, berries, and vegetables.

If the story sounds familiar, that’s because cupped leaves and the angry farmers who tend them are emerging as a recurring summer saga in the Heartland as swaths of land are exposed to errant mists of the potent herbicide dicamba. The pesticide is marketed by Monsanto, the erstwhile US seed/pesticide giant which will soon be subsumed into German chemical behemoth Bayer. And as Bayer integrates Monsanto, it’s also inheriting the smaller company’s dicamba mess.

For three years now, Monsanto has been hotly marketing a product called Roundup Ready 2 Xtend—soybean seeds genetically tweaked to produce crops that can withstand both dicamba and another herbicide, glyphosate (Roundup). The company’s “Roundup Ready” glyphosate-tolerant crops, released in the mid-1990s, became so ubiquitous in US farm country, and the chemical became so widely used, that weeds evolved to withstand it. Now, the company is pitching its dicamba-ready seeds as the answer to the declining effectiveness of its glyphosate-tolerant products.

Dicamba is prone to volatizing—that is, turning into a gas and moving in the air to nearby fields, where it can cause unintended damage.

Fort Fun Indiana · Jul 3, 2018

"organic food"

Biggest woo scam in America.

flacaltenn · Jul 9, 2018

AZGAL said:
Trial Reforms of “Insurance Plus Futures”: Evaluation Results and Policy Options（No.77, 2017）
2017-10-09
By Zhu Junsheng, Research Institute of Finance, DRC & Ye Minghua, East China Normal University
Research report No.77, 2017 (Total 5152) 2017-7-18

Abstract: The trial reforms of “insurance Plus futures” is an active practice of developing market-based management for reducing the risk of food price. Compared with grain spread subsidy and the policy of purchasing grain at minimum prices in order to prevent grain prices from further dropping, the premium subsidy of “insurance Plus futures” has certain advantage than temporary storage cost. It can achieve the gradient effect of farmers’ price risk transfer, and give full scope to the technical advantages of actuarial and risk management of insurance and futures companies.

You're jumping the gun here. Let's go back to CRISPR.. Are you aware that MOST of all new genetically tailored drugs use CRISPR techniques to customize remedies for almost EVERY disease now.? Do you even KNOW the significance of CRISPR techniques? I highly doubt it. You've just been made hysterical about ANYTHING to do with DNA research.

From your starting premise -- you're just a parrot in fear. You got no cred on these issues unless you invest in some knowledge first.

AZGAL · Jul 9, 2018

NO, sorry, your insults are way out of the ballpark so quit it. I am definitely not going to repeat some very rude comments by a mod who should know better. BY THE WAY I GOT LOTS OF "CRED" ON THESE MATTERS!!!

AZGAL · Jul 9, 2018

from the SW...

Dan Stubbs · Jul 9, 2018

waltky said:
Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs...

CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs
October 23, 2017 - Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists report that they have created 12 healthy pigs with about 24 percent less body fat than normal pigs. The scientists created low-fat pigs in the hopes of providing pig farmers with animals that would be less expensive to raise and would suffer less in cold weather. "This is a big issue for the pig industry," says Jianguo Zhao of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who led the research. "It's pretty exciting." The animals have less body fat because they have a gene that allows them to regulate their body temperatures better by burning fat. That could save farmers millions of dollars in heating and feeding costs, as well as prevent millions of piglets from suffering and dying in cold weather. "They could maintain their body temperature much better, which means that they could survive better in the cold weather," Zhao said in an interview.

Other researchers call the advance significant. "This is a paper that is technologically quite important," says R. Michael Roberts, a professor in the department of animal sciences at the University of Missouri, who edited the paper for the scientific journal. "It demonstrates a way that you can improve the welfare of animals at the same as also improving the product from those animals — the meat." But Roberts doubts the Food and Drug Administration would approve a genetically modified pig for sale in the United States. He's also skeptical that Americans would eat GMO pig meat. "I very much doubt that this particular pig will ever be imported into the USA — one thing — and secondly, whether it would ever be allowed to enter the food chain," he says. The FDA has approved a genetically modified salmon, but the approval took decades and has been met with intense opposition from environmental and food-safety groups.

Scientists have used a new gene-editing technique to create pigs that can keep their bodies warmer, burning more fat to produce leaner meat. Infrared pictures of 6-month-old pigs taken at zero, two, and four hours after cold exposure show that the pigs' thermoregulation was improved after insertion of the new gene. The modified pigs are on the right side of the images.

Others say they hope genetically modified livestock will eventually become more acceptable to regulators and the public. "The population of our planet is predicted to reach about 10 billion by 2050, and we need to use modern genetic approaches to help us increase the food supply to feed that growing population," says Chris Davies, an associate professor in the school of veterinary medicine at Utah State University in Salt Lake City. Zhao says he doubts the genetic modification would affect the taste of meat from the pigs. "Since the pig breed we used in this study is famous for the meat quality, we assumed that the genetic modifications will not affect the taste of the meat," he wrote in an email. The Chinese scientists created the animals using a new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9. It enables scientists to make changes in DNA much more easily and precisely than ever before.

Pigs lack a gene, called UPC1, which most other mammals have. The gene helps animals regulate their body temperatures in cold temperatures. The scientists edited a mouse version of the gene into pig cells. They then used those cells to create more than 2,553 cloned pig embryos. Next, scientists implanted the genetically modified cloned pig embryos into 13 female pigs. Three of the female surrogate mother pigs became pregnant, producing 12 male piglets, the researchers report. Tests on the piglets showed they were much better at regulating their body temperatures than normal pigs. They also had about 24 percent less fat on their bodies, the researchers report. "People like to eat the pork with less fat but higher lean meat," Zhao says. The animals were slaughtered when they were six months old so scientists could analyze their bodies. They seemed perfectly healthy and normal, Zhao says. At least one male even mated, producing healthy offspring, he says.

CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

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I wonder where they got the CRISPR system from?? More than likely the USA. Wonder if they paid for it. ?

AZGAL · Jul 9, 2018

Campbell Announces Support for Mandatory GMO Labeling

CAMDEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 7, 2016–
Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) today announced its support for
the enactment of federal legislation to establish a single mandatory
labeling standard for foods derived from genetically modified organisms
(GMOs).

This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160107006458/en/

Campbell believes it is necessary for the federal government to provide
a national standard for labeling requirements to better inform consumers
about this issue. The company will advocate for federal legislation that
would require all foods and beverages regulated by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to be
clearly and simply labeled for GMOs. Campbell is also supportive of a
national standard for non-GMO claims made on food packaging.

AZGAL · Jul 9, 2018

How to Grow Tomatoes (Including My Favorite Varieties!) by @drjoshaxe How to Grow Tomatoes (And Why Everyone Should) - Dr. Axe

Sunsettommy · Jul 10, 2018

AZGAL said:
View attachment 203915 How to Grow Tomatoes (Including My Favorite Varieties!) by @drjoshaxe How to Grow Tomatoes (And Why Everyone Should) - Dr. Axe

A good over all link, but a couple statements they made are absurd:

"Look for organic tomato plants or tomato plants grown without chemicals from your local farmer."

Irrelevant!

and,

"Tomatoes require a lot of soil nutrients, so Mary Higby of High Mowing Seeds recommends keeping other plants from the Solanaceae family, like potatoes, away from your tomatoes."

Compost is good enough for the ENTIRE growing season which I put into the hole with the plant. They bloom more fully if you DON"T add chemical fertilizers since Nitrogen causes plants to grow too much leaves and stems and less flowers.Also use some grass cuttings around the base to reduce temperature swings and blossom end rot problems.

Even if you put the transplant into the ground after last date of frost in the spring, they are very sensitive to cool winds, which is why wind guards should be used to make a temporary greenhouse. I used Gallon sized milk cartons, the top half is simple way to do it.

AZGAL · Jul 10, 2018

AZGAL · Jul 10, 2018

AZGAL · Jul 10, 2018

China traders cancel U.S. corn cargoes on tighter GMO controls, buy from Ukraine: sources
Commodities
February 9, 2018
Hallie Gu, Dominique Patton

BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Chinese buyers have canceled corn purchases from the United States and switched to rival supplier Ukraine, as Beijing tightens controls on processing genetically modified strains of the crop, three trade sources and an analyst told Reuters.

Any prolonged shift by one of the world’s top corn importers would unnerve U.S. farmers as they prepare to harvest a bumper crop this year and could potentially mark a new front in trade tensions festering between China and the United States.

Chinese buyers late last year stepped up purchases of U.S. corn, which is mostly genetically modified, following a rally in domestic prices.

But the sources said it had become tougher for Chinese grain mills to get permits to process genetically modified corn this year, forcing some traders that supply them to instead turn to non-GMO shipments from Ukraine.

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The real reason why micheal mann hockey stick graph switched from tree rings...

US flood damage down sharply over last 70 years!!

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