Mexico ready to hit the US where it hurts: Corn

"and then continued to babble about monoculture......" PP #140

You MORON !!! !!!

Monoculture doesn't mean there's only one in the multiverse!

I apologize to you PP. I had no idea how profoundly impaired you are!!

Have you considered going back to grammar school? 10 or 20 years of hard work there, and you might actually make it to junior high!

monoculture (mòn´e-kùl´cher) noun
1. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country.
2. A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
- mon´ocul´tural adjective

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

So please explain to us all PP.

If sear is so out of touch with the realities; why is it the world's leading experts use EXACTLY the same terminology I do ?!?! You think THEY are out of touch too?


Expanding Monoculture | Union of Concerned Scientists

www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture...enetic-engineering/expanding-monoculture.html

Large-acreage field crops—corn, cotton, soybeans, canola, and now alfalfa— make up the bulk of Monsanto's products, in part because of the high cost of ...
The GMO Seed Monopoly: Fewer Choices, Higher Prices | Food ...

www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/oct/4/the_gmo_seed_monopoly_fewer_choices_higher_prices

Oct 4, 2013 ... by Ken Roseboro,. How biotechnology companies monopolize seed markets, escalate seed prices, and eliminate farmer choice.
The Next Green Revolution - National Geographic

www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/green-revolution/

Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, created a ... A recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that pesticide use on corn crops has ... Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops are genetically modified to be immune to the .... “With higher temperatures, the whitefly's range is expanding.
GMO Factory Monsanto's High-Tech Plans to Feed the World ...

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-03/gmo-factory-monsantos-high-tech-plans-to-feed-the-world

Jul 4, 2014 ... Inside Monsanto, America's Third-Most-Hated Company ... Other spliced-in genes confer immunity to the weed killers Spears uses, greatly simplifying his spraying schedule. ... Oil a century ago or the private military contractor Blackwater. .... “For a grower producing a corn crop in the U.S., he's making ...
Monocultures: The Myth…the Reality…the Future | Beyond the Rows

monsantoblog.com/2015/08/17/monocultures-the-myththe-realitythe-future/

Aug 17, 2015 ... Monsanto's Chief Technology officer explains how monoculture started and ... Planting and harvesting of crops are faster and more efficient if farm equipment ... pool – and dramatically expanding the genetic diversity in farmers' fields. ... A leading U.S. corn hybrid that contains the SmartStax® trait package, ...
Hungarians Just Destroyed All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields | UPRISER

upriser.com/posts/hungarians-just-destroyed-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields

Hungary-Burns-Monsanto-Crops-740x477 ... Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by ... Here in the US GMO Corn is not controlled by the FDA but by the EPA because it is .... as a means of accessing and generating genetic diversity available to breeding programs.
Monsanto's Rise to Power | Simonelli | Fresh Ink: Essays From ...

ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/freshink/article/view/1114/1085

Their main focus is to expand and be successful, but in Monsanto's path of ... Today, 8.25 million farmers grow genetically modified crops on about 200 million ... has their “products” patented preventing their use without extensive contracting . ... In 2004, 85% of all U.S. soy crops, 45% of all U.S. corn crops, 75% of all U.S. ...
Banking on Wild Relatives to Feed the World - Gastronomica

www.gastronomica.org/banking-on-wild-relatives-to-feed-the-world/

Jan 22, 2016 ... The wild ancestor from which domesticated corn was bred, teosinte is scarcely ... At the height of gene and seed banking expansion in the ... The Global Crop Diversity Trust (hereafter the Trust), American University .... Monsanto's interest in teosinte, after all, was not to preserve ancestral maize for posterity.
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast - Scientific ...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/eucalyptus-genetically-modified-pine-tree-southwest-forest/

Jan 29, 2010 ... The companies' push into genetically modified trees, led by their joint ... because, unlike annual farm crops, they live and grow for many years -- has long ... It is now seeking to greatly expand the number and location of trees allowed ... from Mendel Biotechnology, a prime R&D contractor with Monsanto Co., ...
The merger of two mega corporate rogues: Bayer & Monsanto | AHRP

ahrp.org/the-merger-of-two-mega-corporate-rogues-bayer-monsanto/

Oct 14, 2016 ... Monsanto is the most hated agricultural producer of genetically ... Industrialized corporate agriculture has supplanted bio-diverse multi-crop farming with monoculture .... 12); GMO crops are not feeding the hungry; 40% of US corn goes for fuel, ... #4: Expanding Monoculture Monsanto's emphasis on limited ...

And many etceteras.
 
blackascoal said:
Trump started the war by threatening it.

There are other nations who sell corn. No one has to buy it from the US.

.. and if you think this won't hurt American farmers .. OK. :0)

Farm country could lose big in a trade war

For Minnesota and the rest of the Midwest, it likely means farmers are hurt even more than they have been in recent years by low prices caused by abundant crops.

The U.S. exported $2.3 billion worth of corn in 2015, as well as soybeans ($1.4 billion), dairy products ($1.3 billion), pork & pork products ($1.3 billion), and beef & beef products ($1.1 billion).

The losses in a trade war with Mexico are on top of the losses caused by the decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership earlier this week.

“It would be really damaging for us, given that so much of our products go to Mexico now,” Dermot Hayes, an Iowa State University agricultural economist, said earlier this week.
http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/01/farm-country-could-lose-big-in-a-trade-war/
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Mexico will buy where Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont Pioneer tell them to buy it.
 
Althea said:
It also makes Monsanto rich, which in turn adds to the coffers of Congressional representatives.
It's not going to change.
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Monsato has saved millions if not billions from starvation with their innovations.
 
Rune said:
Is it fool?
Why did Dubya want to switch to E-20?

If you can't make a point without lying you don't have a point.
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Dubya was an Al Gorian. He even provided a billion for hydrogen fuel cars.

:dunno:
 
Mott the Hoople said:
That's a serious problems with these nativist Wacko. They're utterly irrational. They want to build a wall around this nation and respond to any contact with the outside world with violence, xenophobia, fear and bigotry. They are clueless to the current interconnectedness of the world and how their point of view was outdated several centuries ago.

If Trumps trade war hurts farmers they'll just demonize Mexicans even more and never, ever accept that maybe, just maybe, they fucked up.
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OH please!!!!! The leftwing thinks the world ends at the U.S. borders. Especially when it comes to wage competition.
 
"Words mean things." Rush Limbaugh

"just not what you pretend they do......" PP #145

I quoted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved. Your dispute is with them, not me.
 
You've addressed a sensible question to PP here P #153.
Perhaps an even more fundamental question for PP, what is his definition of monoculture.

I have used the word only as American Heritage® defines it, and as the numerous expert sources I've now cited multiple times, also use it. It is the correct technical term. PP's pretense that I have erred in that regard is not supported by the facts; as anyone that will read my posts can verify.
 
the guy who can't find the quote button said:
I quoted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved. Your dispute is with them, not me.
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and yet your ignorance carried through....
 
Pocahontas said:
Do words mean the things that you pretend them to?
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if that was a personal attack, your words did not mean what you pretended they did, what you intended them to mean was an insult instead......if you are asking the question in general......rarely do the words people use in argument mean the same thing to both sides......that is an unfortunate side effect of modernism.....
 
sear said:
You've addressed a sensible question to PP here P #153.
Perhaps an even more fundamental question for PP, what is his definition of monoculture.

I have used the word only as American Heritage® defines it, and as the numerous expert sources I've now cited multiple times, also use it. It is the correct technical term. PP's pretense that I have erred in that regard is not supported by the facts; as anyone that will read my posts can verify.
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mono(anything)-----not varied.......what GMO is all about------variation........result, obvious contradiction.......
 
"not varied.......what GMO is all about------variation.." PP

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If his brain was dynamite, this dope wouldn't have enough to blow his own nose.

He's right. The dictionary, and the global scientific consensus is wrong. Any questions?
 
sear said:
A #97

The potato famine in Ireland is attributable to Ireland's potato crops being near clones; very little genetic diversity.

Monocultures make mechanized agribidness cheap & easy. We're feeding more people per acre of farmland than ever before.

BUT !!

With the lost of biodiversity we toe ever closer to the precipice.

Monoculture crops may be easier to harvest.

But one blight, one pathogen that can attack Monsanto's GM crops could wipe out our entire nation's harvest of that crop.

If you want some insight into what it's like to survive famine, read Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Monsanto shoves us closer to the plummet into the abyss for profit.

What good is ROI if the investors all starve to death?
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Obviously you've never heard of the global seed vault on Svalbard!

https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/

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"Obviously you've never heard of the global seed vault on Svalbard!" M #159

To the contrary. I believe I've already mentioned it quite recently in this forum, and mentioned Microsoft Founder Bill Gates' association to it.

BUT !!

The bio-diversity vault you mention would be unnecessary if bio-diversity were not threatened.

The vault exists because bio-diversity IS threatened!

And while it may provide slim refuge; the vault you refer to has nowhere near the inventory to plant all Earth's agricultural fields.
It's simply a repository for the diversity nature evolved; the diversity profit engines like Monsanto are engineering away.
 
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