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        <title><![CDATA[Monsanto is evil]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My feelings towards Monsanto may strike some as a LITTLE extreme: I tend to think of Monsanto as an agent of the Evil One.  The number of suicides in India among farmers is increasing because so many of them bought into the Monsanto line about bigger yields; now they are going broke because they can't afford to buy new seed every year.  (Before Monsanto came, farmers would save seeds from some of what they grew and plant that every year.)  Plus, there are the farmers in North America who are getting strong-armed into planting Monsanto seed.  The Monsanto pollen is blowing in from some other farmer's field and contaminating the farmer's crops.  Monsanto goons then come in and threaten to sue the farmer into bankruptcy for theft of intellectual property (allowing the cross-pollenated crops to grow) unless the farmer agrees to buy and plant Monsanto seed exclusively for the next 10 years or so.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Muzhik1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:10:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Luddite thinking]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;we cant innovate our way out of climate change&quot;So what are solar, wind, hydro, biofuels, and nuclear? Every single one of them requires massive innovation, engineering, and complex production chains to implement. You really need to qualify that statement, it makes no sense as it stands. If it's taken verbatim from one of your lectures, your professors live in ivory towers -- which only exist because of massive innovation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zackers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:57:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Then we are all doomed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If we have to reduce our carbon emissions to zero, then we are doomed. Even with solar and wind, we still have to run big farm equipment on oil products. Nobody has an electric engine plus batteries that can compete with diesel or gas for big projects.And anybody who thinks we can feed 7 billion people without mechanized agriculture has no understanding of food production. Even organic farms have to use big farm machines to make a profit. The alternative is going back to subsistence farming, where each family has to grow its own food and 95% of us have to move back to the farms. Good luck with that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zackers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:53:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Monsanto already has a big part of the seed market]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[People who fear that Monsanto wants to take total control of our food supply overlook the fact that Monsanto already has a big share of the non-GM seed market. If they introduce GM seeds which are demonstratively better than non-GM seeds, how does that suddenly make them worse than they already are? Farmers aren't forced to buy from them unless their GM seeds give them a huge advantage, in which case we all benefit.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zackers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:48:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GM Corn]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't profit be the prime motivation? Why is &quot;profit&quot; a dirty word? Monsanto  has to answer to its shareholders and its customers, and it will be here tomorrow only if it makes a profit today. That's called capitalism, and it's the system under which the US operates.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[qailourophile]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:49:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Drought--resistant corn]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hybridization IS genetic modification.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[qailourophile]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:46:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can genetically modified corn save the midwest from drought?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11659-78230]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I am afraid we are missing something here. The world is still emitting 80 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every day.   So it will get worse next year. And if we lose the Arctic ice caps, Global Warming could become unstoppable (see http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/26/745571/why-the-arctic-sea-ice-death-spiral-matters/).We are not going to save ourselves with GMO crops. We have to reduce our carbon emissions to zero and then wait 200 years for the carbon levels to come down.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeSmith12345]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:56:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Join the Dots.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Monsanto has only one motive for developing GM crops.  Total control of the global food supply.  How clever of them to have a developed drought resistant strains just as the USA suffers the worst drought for a generation. (sarcasm intended)Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ElaineSXM]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:14:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GM Corn]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We need to grow crops that weather droughts while we wait for rain. . . not introduce something we won't like later on, for its impacts on our environ.  Money shouldn't be the prime motivation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aniaksdh]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:54:54 -0700</pubDate>
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