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hunter

(38,264 posts)
16. I'm a scientific Luddite.
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:34 PM
Jul 2015

GMO may or may not be rotten, but the herbicide-resistant, the bee-and-butterfly-killing, the small-farmers-can't-trade-seeds, the does-not-play-well-with-others-and-is-represented-by-aggressive-lawyers, the designed-to-sell-more-patent-poisons... those GMO crops sure as hell are rotten.

Fucking Brawdo would be selling seeds that required Brawndo to thrive, but I'm guessing drinking Brawndo turned everyone into idiots before amoral Brawndo scientists and management could perfect their evil scheme. Nature bats last. 100,000 years from now our descendants may be one of the lesser apes. Fast food for wolves and eagles, silly apes who can't be trusted not to injure themselves with a pointy stick.



Plants do like toilet water, good soil, sunshine, poop, pee, and compost.

My wife and I rely on birds, spiders, predatory insects, and other beasties to control invertebrate pests in our garden and in our house.

If you use insecticides you'll end up with insecticide-resistant cockroaches, ants, fleas, and other nasty pests. The only pests we have occasional trouble with is ticks. Two of our dogs are not especially good at social grooming. They'll ignore dirt, stink, and grape sized ticks in places they can't reach. Lyme disease is not a big problem in our part of the world because tick nymphs spend time on lizards. Lizards have ancestral antibodies that kill Lyme disease.

Our Dingo is the only dog who thinks good grooming is important. However filthy Dingo gets she'll always be clean before bedtime. If she notices a tick in a place she can't reach she'll tell someone right away. Her pack mates would probably jump up onto the bed two minutes after chasing ducks across a sewage pond and rolling in bullshit to dry off, no complaints about fleas, ticks, or leaches. The worst dog we ever had would find a putrid dead animal to roll in, usually just before we went on a long car trip to visit our more rural parents. I think that was her way of preparing for the hunt.

We've had two pig hunting dogs but we didn't know that about them when we adopted them from the animal shelter.

Related in a similar way, Microsoft and Apple are what happens when you hand computer science over to big business, or banking over to the want-to-be-physicists and spread-sheet-obsessives.







That is SOOO! Great! dballance Jul 2015 #1
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jul 2015 #2
In Vermont. Not a whole lot of purchasing power up there. KamaAina Jul 2015 #3
It will trigger already passed laws in 2 other states (CT + Maine) and more are looking to join GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #4
Maine? Is that one of the bills LePew forgot how to veto? KamaAina Jul 2015 #5
He signed it but the present version requires NH and MA to act first GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #6
it's the one time I can understand what he did and why magical thyme Jul 2015 #8
DUzy! meow2u3 Jul 2015 #15
The problem is, that premium paid for GM crops becomes smaller the more that farmers grow them NickB79 Jul 2015 #7
If the inputs (seed and chems) are lower then cost of production could be lower than GMO GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #9
Some inputs are lower, but yields are also usually lower with organic seed NickB79 Jul 2015 #14
"herbicides to combat corn borer and root worm insects?" Archae Jul 2015 #19
Just askin' Thespian2 Jul 2015 #10
This is what happens when you hand science over to big business. C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Jul 2015 #11
It's democracy applied to science. Igel Jul 2015 #13
It is production realigning with cost and revenue. GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #18
I'm a scientific Luddite. hunter Jul 2015 #16
+1000 G_j Jul 2015 #17
Nice! nt raouldukelives Jul 2015 #12
Which means spraying more chemicals to keep weeds down. progressoid Jul 2015 #20
Good news -- No-Till plus non-GMO hybrids = much less pesticide use. GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #21
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