Comments on: U.N. Warns Of "Silent Tsunami" Of Hunger

World Food Program Says 100 Million People Threatened By Crisis In Food Prices And Supply

[quetzal0666]

libsrweak ...

and we are all tired of you taking up resources that could be used for a 3rd world citizen,
please off yourself and quit polluting....

[brianbwb-2009]

"LIBERALS DO THAT ALL THE TIME..EVERYTIME.." Posted by libsrweak

While the neocons use the tricks of;

1. pretending they dont exist.

2. calling them lazy.

3. calling them terrorists.

and using these and other weak, spineless, cover up reasons as justification to say "F.M."

Your libs and your neocons are all the same, and you, by backing one side, disparaging the other, and in the process ignoring the real problem, are just another of them.

[brianbwb-2009]

In 1983, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) joined with the US Department of Agriculture in a project to develop Terminator seeds. It was one of the earliest experiments with GMO. It was a long-term project. The US Government has been serious about Terminator beginning more than two decades ago.

In March 1998 the US Patent Office granted Patent No. 5,723,765 to Delta & Pine Land for a patent titled, Control of Plant Gene _Expression. The patent is owned jointly, according to Delta & Pine%u2019s Security & Exchange Commission 10K filing, %u2018by D&PL and the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture.%u2019

The patent has global coverage. %u2018The patent broadly covers all species of plant and seed, both transgenic (GMO-ed) and conventional, for a system designed to allow control of progeny seed viability without harming the crop%u2019(sic).

D&PL claims, %u2018One application of the technology could be to control unauthorized planting of seed of proprietary varieties%u2026by making such a practice non-economic since non-authorized saved seed will not germinate, and, therefore, would be useless for planting.%u2019

D&PL officially declares the purpose of its Patent No. 5,723,765, Control of Plant Gene _Expression, is to prevent farmers who once get trapped into buying transgenic or GMO seeds from a company such as Monsanto or Syngenta, from %u2018brown bagging%u2019 or being able to break free of control of their future crops by Monsanto and friends.

[libsrweak]

Posted by mokenman at 10:07 AM : Apr 23, 2008
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hey i am hungry..I WANT YOU TO SEND ME SOME MONEY...

[stanleyrice]

"President Bush has released $200 million in urgent aid. Britain pledged an immediate $59.7 million on Tuesday."

Actions speak, not the words "spreading peace and freedom", while actually conduction world wide war! This is the priority of America and Britain. Kill people and destroy as much as possible in the name of peace and freedom, spending BILLIONS on WAR! When it comes to world famine they throw some kibbles and bits!

The truth shall set you free.

[bgwinnett]

Global regression is underway.

[quetzal0666]

Its easier to kill women and children in war, than it is to feed them,
George is doing his part.....
Ending hunger 1 bullet at a time!!!!!

[tvpro-2009]

It is completely wrong to try and blame the Ethanol production for the price increase of food. First of all, making ethanol out of corn does NOT reduce the livestock feed supply, in fact, after you remove the ethanol from the corn, you still have very high quality, high protein feed called dried distiller''s grains. If we don''t process the corn for ethanol, we need to use energy (oil) to dry the grain before we can feed it to livestock. By far and away, the greatest effect on food prices has been the obscene increase in fuel and oil products. If you look at the price of a loaf of bread, the portion of that cost that actually goes to the ag producer (farmer) is tiny, probably less than 5% or 10% so even multiplying this has very little impact. Put the blame where it belongs, on the door step of the petroleum industry.

[underdogus]

"so many blacks in office in this country".. "THE MORE MEXICANS COME OVER WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT" Posted by chad5555..cheap chad666...according to you mexicans and blacks are the "problem" what about MUSLIMS?,ASIAN,ITALIANS,WHITE TRASH, what about them? Dafur Amerika dazu chad555 prepare ofen satz 1003 grad sie unwissend chad555! seig heil HITLER!

[rusmen]

I am a small farmer from ohio. We have farmed for six generations. I know the struggles of putting out a real quality product. Do you think the big corporate farmers care what they put out? They and the giant seed companies care about one thing..money. The world hunger is on their shoulders, they caused this.
But then we need to realize that the petrolium industry has been a big contributor, a lot of ag products are petrolium based, thus our inputs go up and up to plant a crop. I don''t blame the alternative fuel people for all of this. We as a society have asked for a lot of these things that the ag industry has developed and then we gripe when they try to help us. It is very much a double edged sword. We got ourselves into this now we need to be part of the sollution. Buy local, seek out local growers of meat eggs milk and veggies. Cook from scratch, get back to nature. It can be done.

[chad55555]

In America many are hungry and ashamed to speak up because if you tell anyone the government treats you like you dirt and any church acts like your a demon and they have to save you from yourself.Now that we have so many blacks in office in this country real soon we will start to look like the starving people of Africa and Mexico(Africo).WE BROUGHT THIS ON OURSELF IN AMERICA,REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU SEE YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN STARVING. THE MORE MEXICANS COME OVER WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR TO FEED OUR CHILDREN WHEN HARD TIMES HIT AND THEY ARE HERE NOW.

[xlib]

Any money left from the Oil for Food program or did that all go with kofi and his kid.
brianbwb-cite your source.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by TheGateway1

Your references are all from the mouth of Monsanto. You stand a better chance of getting Bush to admit he lied about Iraq, than you do of getting Monsanto to tell the truth.

The facts can be easily deduced by following the court cases where Monsanto is suing farmers. How did the crops become exposed to Monsanto pollen in the first place?

It can also be deduced by the FDA''s original statement, that the intent of supporting Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and others was to "increase the value" of GM products. How better than to eliminate any competition, with aggressive but non reproductive strains introduced into the environment, in fact what other way?

[brianbwb-2009]

"9.3 Nothing in this Article shall be interpreted to limit any rights that farmers have to save,
use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed/propagating material, subject to national law and as
appropriate." Posted by TheGateway1

Gate, Sure the law forbids the denial of the right to save seed, but since the seed, already contaminated by Monsanto, will not germinate, what then is the point, what use is there in saving seeds that don''t germinate??

Monsanto has already released these wind borne corn pollen into the wild, and are suing farmers whose crops are showing the genetic print of Monsanto-altered corn. Do you not see the long term implications of wind borne pollen from Monsanto?

[termtex01]

para 9.3. of the INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE


"9.3 Nothing in this Article shall be interpreted to limit any rights that farmers have to save,
use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed/propagating material, subject to national law and as
appropriate."

[termtex01]

"Monsanto wants to spread aggressive pollen from GM corn that produces sterile seed, so farmers have to buy from Monsanto forever. Same with rice, wheat, and other world staples. This is a plot straight out of Austin powers, and must not be allowed to happen.

Posted by brianbwb at 03:00 AM : Apr 23, 2008"


Still spreading that lie even though I produced proof to show you were lying? Who are you trying to kid now, yourself?

http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=9950

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/10/05/BU80947.DTL

http://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=500

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/465222.stm

http://www.fao.org/ag/cgrfa/itpgr.htm

[brianbwb-2009]

"U.N. Warns Of "Silent Tsunami" Of Hunger"

If they think it will be "silent" they are worng, hunger will cause mass migration, wars, and general anarchy.

This won''t be so "silent".

I have often wondered why city planners refuse to designate the "green areas" of the cities to include trees and plants that produce food.

Jonathan Chapman had a good idea, too bad he was considered a "loony" by those who wanted to control the food supply.

Monsanto wants to spread aggressive pollen from GM corn that produces sterile seed, so farmers have to buy from Monsanto forever. Same with rice, wheat, and other world staples. This is a plot straight out of Austin powers, and must not be allowed to happen.