Comments on: Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food Fight

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:25:22 +0000

And you put a gene in a plant so it produces its own pesticide? DDT is good for me! Lead is just fine in our gasoline! Sure these chemicals that disrupt the endocrine and nervous system of bugs can’t affect me! They are small and I’m much larger. Lol. The only side affect of Agent Orange is that it leaves tan lines. Dioxin is a wonderful chlorine based agent. Depleted Uranium won’t effect our troops on the battle field. Trust Us We’re the Experts (maybe you should read that book if you wanna know the truth about fake, bought and paid for ‘science’). Sure I’ll look the other way after all this study and my new research facility was paid for by MONSANTO!!!!!!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:16:51 +0000

Chemical pesticides sprayed on your food? What part of that sounds like a good idea? Have you ever studied soil science? Have you ever studied the complexity of nitrogen fixing, the symbiotic relationship of yeast and plants, the essential microorganism population? The British soil association showed a 85% decrease in microorganism population in a 27 year study of organic vs. conventional farms. So your going to destroy the life blood of the soil? Kill the earthworms and interrupt the cycle of life? Ridiculous. What kind of ‘science’ is that? Lol. And you wonder why Americans are fat when Europeans eat horrific diets but still can ride all the rides at the park lol. You can put your shill fake economically twisted ‘science’ in my organic compost pile. I love the new natural selection. Your kids will be visiting fertility clinics while mine will use the high quality nutrition to build strong minds and strong bodies. Remember you did it for ‘science’. Enjoy your poptart.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:32:16 +0000

Pam, you forgot to mention the thousands of Indian farmers who have committed suicide as a result of reduced yield after using Bt cotton seed. They actually drank the pesticide that Monsanto sold to them to ‘fix’ the issue. I wouldn’t call that a success would you? and to answer your question, no- Rachel Carson would not agree!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html

By: Genetically modified organic farming

Genetically modified organic farming — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:59:43 +0000

[...] a debate between two authors of new books about the future of food is labeled “A Food Fight,” one can be excused for expecting some fireworks. But the exchange hosted in late June at the Oxford [...]

By: mike D

mike D — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:27:23 +0000

Great debate. But I agree about the terra incognita of GM. We have no idea what we’re doing here and, once again, agro-business wields too much political clout to have their hands smacked. We’ve got to be tough on this, it’s one of the biggest issues we’ve got. Say no to GM!

By: anxora

anxora — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:52:01 +0000

Hello!

What do you think to be the potential of precision farming with GPS around the world? How many farmers are actually using GPS technology?

By: BillinDetroit

BillinDetroit — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:00:26 +0000

Myopia.
The GE stuff breeds with the environmentally proven ancient stocks … resulting in an increased tendency towards monoculture, not, as Ronald intimated, less.
” In fact, after seven years of pesticide reductions in Bt cotton fields in China, populations of other insects increased so much that farmers had to resume spraying certain insecticides.”

But now, ALL the cotton has the Bt gene … and ALL the cotton will be vulnerable to any organism that develops a taste for it. And the spraying, after a reduction (not elimination) of ONLY 7 YEARS, has resumed as before.

There is, additionally, the issue of “failure to notify”, which has pushed US citizens into choosing between growing their own food and participating in a massive feeding experiment. Simply put, a shopper in a market has no way of knowing whether they are buying GE food or not. The one thing we can be certain of is that humans have not evolved with this food in our diets.

We are marching off into terra incognita behind the scientists again … the same people who gave us the dust bowls of the 1920′s … as we experiment with the food supplies of the entire earth.

To even suggest such a thing is insane.

By: Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food FightPart Two : OUPblog

Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food FightPart Two : OUPblog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:28:14 +0000

[...] Ronald: A Food FightPart Two”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/food-2/” }); Yesterday we posted part one in our dialogue between Robert Paarlberg (who recently published Starved For Science) and Pamela [...]

By: Tante Lissy’s Pflaumenkuchen (Plum Cake) : OUPblog

Tante Lissy’s Pflaumenkuchen (Plum Cake) : OUPblog — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:24:04 +0000

[...] Science) and Pamela Ronald (author of Tomorrow’s Table). Check out part one of their discussion here. To whet your appetite we excerpted a recipe from Ronald’s book for Plum Cake. Ronald goes on [...]