40 Tons of GMO Crops TORCHED in America, Media Blackout

[Seraphim]

This is too coherent and succinctly accurate. Shut up Comrade and eat your GMO porrage.

Do you hate Murika?

What he had was not private property. Farms that use the GMO sugar beets are heavily subsidized. That farmer took stolen money from taxpayers to create food that is toxic. The tax dollars are taken from me by force. That alone is 100% wrong. In addition to the money being stolen from me, they are using it to poison the food I eat. That is an act of aggression. I cannot use the court system to protect my rights either as the laws and regulations protect the very groups that are seeking to due me harm.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Most crops are subsidised. That gives somebody the right to go around destroying them?

Don't like Monsanto? Fine. Destroying the crops did nothing to Monsanto but it did cost that farmer. I think cars pollutes too much. Perhaps I should come and destroy yours since you drive one. Is that right? Destruction of property isn't right.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Most crops are subsidised. That gives somebody the right to go around destroying them?

Don't like Monsanto? Fine. Destroying the crops did nothing to Monsanto but it did cost that farmer. I think cars pollutes too much. Perhaps I should come and destroy yours since you drive one. Is that right? Destruction of property isn't right.

except my car isn't feeding you experimental food

 

[donnay]

I'm defending the farmer that had his private property destroyed.

What happens to the other farmers around when the GMO's cross pollinated by other pollinators and ruin other farmers crops?

 

[liberty2897]

Monsanto may be endangering our entire species with their practices. Who the fuck knows what mono-cultures will do to our food supply over time. No man should be able to patent life, yet we let them march ahead, destroying the small business man because seeds drifted onto their farms.

 

[MelissaWV]

Most crops are subsidised. That gives somebody the right to go around destroying them?

Don't like Monsanto? Fine. Destroying the crops did nothing to Monsanto but it did cost that farmer. I think cars pollutes too much. Perhaps I should come and destroy yours since you drive one. Is that right? Destruction of property isn't right.

It doesn't give them "the right," and if caught I would expect these folks to face consequences. There's that really fine line between civil disobedience and just being a huge asshole. Usually which side an action falls on is decided by history.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Of course! It was in the Argus Observer!



I hadn't heard a thing about it prior to the article in the OP, either.

He quoted plenty of other sites, Melissa.

 

[MelissaWV]

He quoted plenty of other sites, Melissa.

Which of those are widespread media sites? The topic quoted the title of the article. Sheesh, Liberty.

 

[LibertyEagle]

I guess one thing I would ask is whether applauding the destruction of a farmer's private property is going to be helpful or harmful to the candidates that we promote on this site.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Which of those are widespread media sites? The topic quoted the title of the article. Sheesh, Liberty.

You mean, national? Because it appears that it received coverage in the state that it occurred. http://www.kptv.com/story/22646952/genetically-engineered-sugar-beets-destroyed-fbi-investigating

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I guess one thing I would ask is whether applauding the destruction of a farmer's private property is going to be helpful or harmful to the candidates that we promote on this site.

we're applauding the destruction of frankencrops. The farmer's property is collateral damage

 

[MelissaWV]

You mean, national? Because it appears that it received coverage in the state that it occurred. http://www.kptv.com/story/22646952/genetically-engineered-sugar-beets-destroyed-fbi-investigating

k It's not the least bit of a blackout. Nope.

I don't want to hear about Ron Paul blackouts, either, since it was usually covered by the local university newspaper, or someone's local blog.

 

[LibertyEagle]

k It's not the least bit of a blackout. Nope.

I don't want to hear about Ron Paul blackouts, either, since it was usually covered by the local university newspaper, or someone's local blog.

What??? They aren't even in the same ballpark. Ron was running for a national office. An Oregon farmer whose crops were destroyed was covered by Oregon media. You seem to think it should have been a national media event and because it was not, you have categorized it as a blackout.

 

[Zippyjuan]

What happens to the other farmers around when the GMO's cross pollinated by other pollinators and ruin other farmers crops?

Cross polination in sugar beets is very difficult though it can happen. There was no risk of it spreading by that means from this field. That is no justification of what happened.

http://www.sugarcane.res.in/index.php/knowledge-bank/about-sugarcane?start=4

Sugarcane pollen is very small and wind dispersed. It is rapidly desiccated after dehiscence, having a half-life of only 12 minutes, and is no longer viable beyond 35 minutes, under unmodified environmental conditions (26o C and 67% relative humidity). As a result, viable pollen is not expected to disperse far in the field. Sugarcane pollen stored at 4oC under 90 -100 % relative humidity retains some viability for up to 14 days.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

except my car isn't feeding you experimental food

Your car is using ethanol made from Monsanto products so how are you less guilty than the farmer?

 

[oyarde]

Alright , I give , how does someone know the origin of these nasty Oregon sugar beets ?Why would you destroy crops that are not yours ? Sounds like the govt .....

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Your car is using ethanol made from Monsanto products so how are you less guilty than the farmer?

I'm not putting it in people's food. Also I'm not the PRODUCER.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

it's been made impossible to know the source of all the ingredients in products

That appears to be a false rumor, supported by no evidence.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

I'm not putting it in people's food. Also I'm not the PRODUCER.

The farmer was putting things in non-consenting people's food?

 

[MelissaWV]

What??? They aren't even in the same ballpark. Ron was running for a national office. An Oregon farmer whose crops were destroyed was covered by Oregon media. You seem to think it should have been a national media event and because it was not, you have categorized it as a blackout.

Please tell that to the FBI. They are in charge of the investigation and offering a reward.

*I* have not categorized it as a blackout. How do you not hurt yourself jumping to conclusions? The title of the original posted article called it a blackout, which Frank attempted to refute by posting a whole lot of local farm blog type articles (a couple of which were written AFTER the one in the OP, by the way, and most of which were on the SAME DAY, so which would not have shown up for the author of the one in the OP). Showing that it was reported a day or two later in the I-have-a-farm Daily Journal does not refute the premise of the original article.

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I would be curious to know (back on topic) what kind of insurance payment will be associated with this. As a private farming operation leasing land from a foreign company to produce GMO crops specifically immune to a particular type of plant killer, it seems like a litigious doom pretzel.