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  • freewheat
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2007
    • 2981

    We should donate.

    I agree that we farmers need to speak out, and counter the naysayers:

    http://www.producer.com/2015/01/planned-film-to-counter-anti-gmo-arguments/
  • farmaholic
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 17482

    #2
    Producers are hardly the only beneficiaries(depending how you look at it) of this technology. How about Monsanto and Bayer. How about the public who has enjoyed cheaper food because of increased production. We pay dearly to use the tech, so maybe the two big beneficiaries should use some of their profits to defend their technogy. But I hardly think the public will give them an ear...

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    • tweety
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2014
      • 3059

      #3
      Maybe farmers worldwide should all become organic. Ban breeding thru gmo. Ban all pesticides - natural and synthetic - and fertilizer.

      Can you imagine growing 5-10 bushels an acre with no input cost making 50 times as much money from all the starving rich people?

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      • sawfly
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2005
        • 876

        #4
        all the power to the organic industry.
        every production cut should help
        prices in general.
        our problem is figuring out how to keep
        any of that benefit in farmers hands

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        • Guest

          #5
          the leaches that are living off us should donate , would probably be the best thing that ever happened . we could grow a lot less produce and actually get paid for it . whats going on now isn't working for us . we could quit buying bins, baggers, extractors, bags , etc ., to store grain for line cos and go to the lake instead of spraying all summer. as far as GMO canola , who cares ,its not making money for farmers anymore ? we are going to grow non gmo canola if we can find it for a reasonable seed price, ($.50-.70/bu premium at viterra) otherwise none, and when the
          they get GMO wheat going ,we wont be able to afford to grow it either. no, make no mistake, this is a lot bigger threat to line cos, railroads , chem cos , etc. , then it is to farmers who are taking all the risks doing all the work and getting very little in return

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          • farming101
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2011
            • 3954

            #6
            Rarely has the farm ever produced a bumper crop. I always thought we were poor farmers and now it seems we were cutting edge all along. WHO KNEW???????
            LOL!

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            • rkaiser
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2004
              • 2282

              #7
              I hope that every farmer who chooses to donate to this film puts there name up front and center rather than hide behind alias's.

              What a pathetic idea.

              Feed the world my ass. Pocketing money is all GMO's have ever been about.

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              • BreadWinner
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2008
                • 1493

                #8
                The #1 reason I don't want GMO wheat is market acceptability. Our first couple years with GMO canola seen the price tank because certain countries had import bans. If the consumer doesn't want it we should not grow it end of story. We will pay right out of our pockets if GMO wheat is grown in Canada.

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                • tweety
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2014
                  • 3059

                  #9
                  So its not just me that kinda hope the committed, antiscience, March against Mons, foodbabe, parsely esque philosiphizers, win the food wars?

                  Overproduction of food is bad business and it has made people think they need an iphone but not food.

                  We are lulled into thinking that we need to produce more to feed the world, that it is somehow our moral right to do so.

                  Bullshit! Maybe we're donating and supporting the wrong side.

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                  • blackpowder
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2010
                    • 9289

                    #10
                    I'm with Kaiser here.
                    Stand on a stage with a full belly and tell %25 of the worlds parents half or all their children are crippled or dead because some fat hypocrites (green peace etc.) (Not the farmers) found they could make money exploiting complacency and opulence with fear and ignorance. Well I guess it works every time. Aw hell, just give em free condoms.
                    I see opulence or pestilence as change drivers. Nothing new here.

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