Glyphosate found in Human Urine

Admin only remove posts that fall foul of the established GC rules. On any controversial subject members are bound to disagree on the validity of another member's argument, point of view, beliefs and the "evidence" that is produced to confirm or strengthen the aforementioned.
While the person posting and presenting their argument, evidence and belief is entitled to do so, perhaps the presentation could be such as to leave the viewing members with the ability to decide whether or not the evidence is fact and not just the belief of the member stating the case.
Whatever the discussion is there will always be an opposing view and the important thing to remember that that is exactly what they are, views, despite a member presenting his/her view as fact. The joy of GC, to me, is that we can have opposing views, get frustrated and irritated by that opposing view, and still be able to argue and/or discuss the subject without falling foul of breaking the normal rules of courtesy and reason.

 

Most of the GM organisms are crops that feed the world and perhaps the original purpose was quite innocent, and possibly naive, in that it being developed to help countries that weren't able to grow enough for their own population without being commercially dominated. However, that has changed with time.

Most of the GM crops are made to resist and kill pests and diseases and also be super tolerant to the pesticides being sprayed. To start with less air spraying of crops resulted but it is now increasingly used in support of the GM crops. The main, and realistic, worry of the farmers and agriculturalists is the the pests and diseases are mutating to become able to overcome the genes in the crops put there to resist and kill them. The problem being that, just like anti-biotics, pests and diseases combined with Nature will find a way to become resistant to pesticides and GM's. Which makes me wonder how far man can go in trying to find something Nature can't beat. I agree Nature does modify and change plant to cope with situations and the like, but that is called natural evolution and Nature has been doing that for millions of years.
Man's efforts to change things or introduce species of animals and plants into places where Nature had not intended has ended in a lot of spectacular disasters and failures that have caused more problems than there were in the first place, and is not exactly covered in glory, so I'm wondering why GM would be any different?
. I'm not against GM but my faith in our ability to use it for the right reasons in the right place without commercial interests overriding the dangers is somewhat low.

 

Then we think alike and recognise the problems, Jenny. Commercial interests do rule the world in this era, but I'm not so sure about it continuing until "the grand day of judgement", although I have a suspicion that the commercial interests are blindly hastening the arrival of that day

 

Coming up, Jenny. Wine is already there.