Monsato More Good than Bad

[GHook93]

Monsato gets a bad rap by a lot of people. Folks from both sides of the spectrum decry it as an evil corp. No doubt it's done some evil things like it's patent infringement lawsuits on mom and pop farmers.

However, they have done more good than bad.
(1) They developed Glyphosate:
This has been a miracle herbicide that has substantially increased yields!

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
Monsanto chemist John Franz invented a herbicide called glyphosate. In the half-century that has since passed, the substance has been heralded as a "once-in-a-century herbicide," leading to substantially higher crop yields without damaging the environment. Scrutiny over the years has revealed the herbicide to be less acutely toxic than Tylenol and to degrade quickly in the soil. In order for farmers to make full use of the herbicide, Monsanto engineered strains of various crops to be immune to glyphosate. Now, American farmers average 160 bushels of corn per acre each year, up from 109.5 in 1979.

(2) Golden Rice

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
Monsanto has also been key to the development of golden rice, a genetically modified strain which provides a significant amount of Vitamin A per serving. Vitamin A deficiency plagues many parts of the developing world, resulting in as many as one million deaths and 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness annually (PDF). If widely planted, golden rice could very well abate this tragedy.

(3) Increase Yields and Lowering Food Costs:
There genetically enhanced seeds are more resistant to the environmental hazards that kill other seeds and they lead to bigger yields. People call this unnatural, so they decry it as unsafe, when it has been proven to be safe. This seeds have increased yields to that poor countries like in Latin America do not have food storage. In fact Monsato has increases yields to create a surplus, lowering the cost of food for people around the globe. It's amazing how even lefties can turn around something that reduces famine risks and makes it a bad thing!

Even Norman Borlaug holds Monsato in high regards:

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner whose dwarf wheat revolutionized agriculture, saving an estimated one billion lives from starvation. Before he died in 2009, Borlaug extolled Monsanto's use of genetic modification, believing science to be the best hope for feeding a growing world population.

"We've been genetically modifying plants and animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people were selecting the best breeds," he said in an interview with Houston Chronicle.

Who is Norman Borlaug? - Short Answer - A GREAT MAN!!!

Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)[2] was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution",[3] "agriculture's greatest spokesperson"[4] and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives".[5] He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal[6] and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.[7]

Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

 

[dilloduck]

Monsato gets a bad rap by a lot of people. Folks from both sides of the spectrum decry it as an evil corp. No doubt it's done some evil things like it's patent infringement lawsuits on mom and pop farmers.

However, they have done more good than bad.
(1) They developed Glyphosate:
This has been a miracle herbicide that has substantially increased yields!

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
Monsanto chemist John Franz invented a herbicide called glyphosate. In the half-century that has since passed, the substance has been heralded as a "once-in-a-century herbicide," leading to substantially higher crop yields without damaging the environment. Scrutiny over the years has revealed the herbicide to be less acutely toxic than Tylenol and to degrade quickly in the soil. In order for farmers to make full use of the herbicide, Monsanto engineered strains of various crops to be immune to glyphosate. Now, American farmers average 160 bushels of corn per acre each year, up from 109.5 in 1979.

(2) Golden Rice

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
Monsanto has also been key to the development of golden rice, a genetically modified strain which provides a significant amount of Vitamin A per serving. Vitamin A deficiency plagues many parts of the developing world, resulting in as many as one million deaths and 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness annually (PDF). If widely planted, golden rice could very well abate this tragedy.

(3) Increase Yields and Lowering Food Costs:
There genetically enhanced seeds are more resistant to the environmental hazards that kill other seeds and they lead to bigger yields. People call this unnatural, so they decry it as unsafe, when it has been proven to be safe. This seeds have increased yields to that poor countries like in Latin America do not have food storage. In fact Monsato has increases yields to create a surplus, lowering the cost of food for people around the globe. It's amazing how even lefties can turn around something that reduces famine risks and makes it a bad thing!

Even Norman Borlaug holds Monsato in high regards:

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner whose dwarf wheat revolutionized agriculture, saving an estimated one billion lives from starvation. Before he died in 2009, Borlaug extolled Monsanto's use of genetic modification, believing science to be the best hope for feeding a growing world population.

"We've been genetically modifying plants and animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people were selecting the best breeds," he said in an interview with Houston Chronicle.

Who is Norman Borlaug? - Short Answer - A GREAT MAN!!!

Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)[2] was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution",[3] "agriculture's greatest spokesperson"[4] and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives".[5] He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal[6] and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.[7]

Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

I noticed you were quite heavy on the good things and pretty light on the evil things. Not even a mention about all the problems that glyphosates cause ?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Anything that succeeds is evil to liberals.. they embrace failure and mediocrity like grim death. Just look at Obama.

 

[Moonglow]

The CAFO's are good and bad, but the independent farmers are the ones that have the job of filling the niche from the corporation farms.If you want to know where the majority of farm subsidies goes it goes to the CAFO's.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Monsato gets a bad rap by a lot of people. Folks from both sides of the spectrum decry it as an evil corp. No doubt it's done some evil things like it's patent infringement lawsuits on mom and pop farmers.

However, they have done more good than bad.
(1) They developed Glyphosate:
This has been a miracle herbicide that has substantially increased yields!

RealClearScience - Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
Monsanto chemist John Franz invented a herbicide called glyphosate. In the half-century that has since passed, the substance has been heralded as a "once-in-a-century herbicide," leading to substantially higher crop yields without damaging the environment. Scrutiny over the years has revealed the herbicide to be less acutely toxic than Tylenol and to degrade quickly in the soil. In order for farmers to make full use of the herbicide, Monsanto engineered strains of various crops to be immune to glyphosate. Now, American farmers average 160 bushels of corn per acre each year, up from 109.5 in 1979.

(2) Golden Rice



(3) Increase Yields and Lowering Food Costs:
There genetically enhanced seeds are more resistant to the environmental hazards that kill other seeds and they lead to bigger yields. People call this unnatural, so they decry it as unsafe, when it has been proven to be safe. This seeds have increased yields to that poor countries like in Latin America do not have food storage. In fact Monsato has increases yields to create a surplus, lowering the cost of food for people around the globe. It's amazing how even lefties can turn around something that reduces famine risks and makes it a bad thing!

Even Norman Borlaug holds Monsato in high regards:




Who is Norman Borlaug? - Short Answer - A GREAT MAN!!!

Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)[2] was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution",[3] "agriculture's greatest spokesperson"[4] and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives".[5] He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal[6] and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.[7]

Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

I noticed you were quite heavy on the good things and pretty light on the evil things. Not even a mention about all the problems that glyphosates cause ?

Yeah, seems pretty evil:

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Human acute toxicity is dose related. Acute fatal toxicity has been reported in deliberate overdose.[51][52] Epidemiological studies have not found associations between long term low level exposure to glyphosate and any disease.[53][54][55]

Based on an assessment completed in 1993 and published as a Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) document, the EPA considers glyphosate to be noncarcinogenic and relatively low in dermal and oral acute toxicity.[46] The EPA considered a "worst case" dietary risk model of an individual eating a lifetime of food derived entirely from glyphosate-sprayed fields with residues at their maximum levels. This model indicated that no adverse health effects would be expected under such conditions.[46]

In June of 2013, the Medical Laboratory in Bremen published a report that glyphosate was present in human urine samples from 18 European countries. Malta showed the highest test results with the chemical showing up in 90% of samples and the average for all countries was 43.9%. Diet was stated as the main source.[

 

[dilloduck]

http://truthfarmer.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/glyphosphatekillingus.pdf