Ministry of Rice
This is a Greenpeace video. You will* love it. Please applaud with 'likes', as it deserves many.
[edit] *not all of you
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Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 20 May 2009, 23:54,
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the sort of people who can afford to complain about such things
are the sort of people whom have never had to worry about having enough rice to feed their family. If they were like the majority of the world and the alternative was starvation rather than just not beeing cool, im sure they wouldnt oppose it so much
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its_hatorah_bitch is b3ta the devil you know on, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:08,
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I ain't starving
and I couldn't give a fuck either.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:14,
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Yeah, you've got a point...
Let's just put a huge chunk of our food supply completely in the hands of one big company and trust them with it. Being cool isn't everything.
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Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:14,
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Just slap a whale in the middle of each poverty stricken nation.
Job done.
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Major Turd for tonight only, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:58,
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slapping whales is animal cruelty, no matter where you do it.
anyway, clubbing seals is easier.
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theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 21 May 2009, 8:53,
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GM rice/wheat/maize
Am I the only person who thinks they're awesome?
An entire food source that due to GM:
- Is Easier to grow
- Is Easier to harvest
- Is Easier to cook
- Requires less nutrients
and people are worried about product testing? It's rice for fucks sake!?
How many ways can you get it wrong?
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i'm also a fan of GM foods but...
i don't like the fact that they sell it sterilised.
you've got the great wheat seed that will grow in poor arable, drought conditions etc. and it won't germinate.
So you have to keep buying it every harvest rather than keepign a portion back and sowing the seeds.
I think it should be like Medicines, where you get X amount of years to make money of your product then anyone can make a generic version, i.e one that does the same as Brand X but germinates too.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:36,
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but if it isn't sterilised, then people will worry about subsequent
generations of the crop doing a Day of the Triffids and killing us all (or just not being as good/productive in the same way that F2 hybrids are nowhere near as good/reliable as F1 hybrids; amateur gardeners are used to buying new F1 seeds every year instead of sowing seeds from last year's crop)
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custard, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:57,
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I don't think there is anything intrinsically harmful in GM foodstuffs
they are just another variation of the (four letter) DNA alphabet; you don't grow gills from eating fish DNA etc.
They are only harmful if that DNA instructs the organism to make toxins or does not breed true (i.e. subsequent generations of the organism are toxic), both of which can happen (and has happened) with conventionally bred organisms.
The reasonable objections are to do with GMOs not living up to the hype or concerns about big agribusiness, monocultures (no biodiversity & superbugs or superweeds), and patents/IP etc.
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custard, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:42,
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Whereas the greenpeace video
would rather draw your attention to the fact that GM Rice has a designation and not a name.
Playing off the fear of e-numbers, most of which are perfectly harmless as well, just being a way of catagorising common ingredients in foodstuffs.
The sterile crops and patent stuff is a little bit dubious, but as long as greenpeace continues to try and hit at mass hysteria I will continue to consider them as twats.
(, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:45, Reply)
What?
General Motors is making food now, I guess with the car biz going down they have to find something to keep their credit/finance wing company.
(, Thu 21 May 2009, 18:14, Reply)
Oh fuckoff Greenpeace you scaremongering brainwashed twats.
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:27,
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OH MY, IT HAS AN ALPHANUMERIC CODE INSTEAD OF A NAME
IT MUST BE BAD
And the company makes weedkiller in order to increase rice yield and then makes the rice resistant to it? HOW DARE THEY!
I know, let's fuel the country entirely off wind power, as well! That'll work!
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when they realise that nuclear power is the cleanest solution to our energy needs then i'll listen
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I think these are more scary......DIY GM in your kitchen
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=biohackers-brewing-new-life-forms-i-2009-05-12
Scientific American so it must be true
diybio.org/
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Thu 21 May 2009, 9:00,
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are rice krispies affected?
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the RAND corporation a.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Thu 21 May 2009, 12:22,
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