This has been an interesting read. Have you been following the GMO Medical Marijuana agenda at all with reference to how much of the product being sold in dispensaries is in fact Genetically Modified? If so you should do a post on that too! :) ReSteeming this :)
It's pure rumour, nothing else. Nobody ever produced GMO weed... at least so far... and for one reason. Cannabis industry has been illegal for decades, which means no breeder had an access to a specialised lab, where he could modify his material genetically.
And it's not really a task you can accomplish in your basement without the funding, and definitely not without an expertise. But there's also another reason, weed breeders and growers are practically unanimous in their rejection of GMO, so this won't fly unless CRISPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR) gets adopted.
Ah, see I don't know a lot about it with MJ, BUT I have seen a lot of material, I'll see if I can find it... suggesting that Monsanto and CO have been creating genetically modified strains in preparation to take over the legalized MJ growing in the US as it becomes legal much like they have done with corn, wheat, oats and soy. I'll have to see if I can find the info before I say much more about it. They would have the resources to do so if they wanted.
I would think that many weed growers would reject GMOs. I'm not sure what CRISPR is so I'll have a look at your link! Thanks!
What they did to take over other industries was sneaky and if people had known the consequences of signing the contracts ahead of time with those big ag. companies, companies that are trying to own all seed/food source everywhere, many of them would not have signed. When they come out to speak about it they loose their entire life's work farms etc, and find they have gag orders placed upon them and there is nothing they can do to get out of the trap they find themselves in without loosing everything. So many people don't know what's happened.
It was my impression they were attempting similar tactics through crooked govt contracts in the US with the legalization of weed. (Like in my state I was told, though I'd need to verify it that one of the few people being granted a license to grow for medicinal purposes is the son of a govt official. That would make it easy for a lot of people to just say ok to GMO pot if they have created it because people are desperate to have it legalized and have been told untruths about GMOs and the potential harm they could be causing. I will see what I can find and get back to you with it. :)
Thank you for taking the time to share what you know about this!
It'd be another way to monopolise another market, but so far weed is still federally illegal, and they don't want to deal with federal risks unless they buy everyone and legalise it :D Hmm that would be fun, wouldn't it?
But jokes aside yes they'd be money for it, cause this whole legal weed industry has a lot of problems so far, and one of the most evident is lack of stabilised varieties, which they'd have to develop first... it's chaos really in terms of commercially viable cannabis genetics, which is owed to many years of clandestine breeding.
We have very few landrace/heirloom varieties left and a lot of polyhybrids that produce 10 different genotypes. Sure they'd have the funding to get ahead, but there's another problem, they'd have to change the name, cause NOBODY WOULD BUY MONSANTO WEED and even then they'd face the risk of a watchdog from a cannabis community, that would point to rebranding efforts.
It's not impossible for them to pursue this in the future, but so far I'd doubt they see it as a viable investment. And they have sth very serious going on, which they have to bring home if they want to make their shareholders happy:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-canola-disease-insight/seed-firms-scramble-to-stop-a-cancer-in-canadas-cash-crop-idUSKCN1G60J6
You know most of the gmo plants are just modified to with stand round up weed killer. So gmo is not bad it’s just the weed killer they use on the crop that’s bad.
Biotechnology is neither bad nor good. It really depends on how we utilise it. Monsanto case is one of the most obtrusive, cause they've been squeezing it for profits causing a lot of damages to the ecosystem, monopolising seed business, buying political support, and bullying everybody who was against them... so unsurprisingly they gave it a bad name forever.
Very true and very sad indeed.
I'll start by saying I like science.
That said I don't think humans have a clue how messing with the genomes of everything they touch will pan out in the long run. We haven't been doing it with an honest look at the results long enough. Most of our studies are funded by the companies that are trying to gain monopoly on everything including water, on the planet.
The human body is getting all sorts of screwed up. We can find a million and one reasons why that is. But if you think of this, the human body, much like other things in nature is a self healing organism for the most part. It has evolved over a long period of time (I'm not talking darwin, just observation as best we can at this time...)and adapted to using many things in the environment to stay healthy. Our gut is made up of colonies of things that have adapted to what we found growing in nature. Things that use many various components of plants and other things we may take into our bodies in specific ways to produce healthy cells. The big corporate scientists know this. And over the past 50 to 75 years our diets have changed at a much faster pace than would likely have allowed our bodies to have adjusted properly. Most humans in "developed" countries with the most scientific advances have ruined gut linings and immune systems.
What, billions of years of evolution of the bacteria and so forth in your gut learning as intelligent organisms to work in a certain way, and virtually overnight it changes.
With responsible science I can see some argument for GMO-- sometimes. Overall, I think the need for doing so has been engineered as part of a long term plan. I feel we have plenty of proof that when the govts and big corporations want to do something they say "Sometimes you have to start a fire to sell a bucket of water!" ~ Catherine De Medici in Reign.
The most easily controlled populations are the ill and uninformed populations. So I think we have a lot more learning to do with respect to our relationship to this place where we live and how we effect nature. ✌️
Very well said. Definitely will be following you! But I’m on the understanding that the chemical in weed killer is what is killing benificial bacteria in the gut.
Assuming they are not intentionally trying to kill/sicken people with each genetic modification (which I don't assume because it depends on who's paying them) ...the gut has not been digesting fish/tomatoes for all of the time it's been evloving, so there is no way for us to know how that effects health yet. I've been really busy with things around here, but I do plan on making some informative posts about these types of topics based upon what I've learned over the years of rebuilding my own health and having them be as well sourced as possible so if you follow me you would be able to see those when I get them posted. It will be hopefully in the next month, as those will be in depth and take some time.
I was very sick for a long time and have thankfully been able to (over a few years) get it straightened out, most of it without the help of doctors who could not tell me what was wrong and just continued to send bills... So I want to help others who may know someone who is, or may be themselves in a similar situation. Or maybe help people not wind up in the condition I was in. Dietary change was probably the biggest factor in my turn around. (Yes I still eat some things I shouldn't but for a while I could not. :)
There is a lot that I don't know, but I have been forced to learn so much through personal experiences, so I'm just trying to share what I feel I have gotten a handle on. :) If you are interested I'd be happy to have you on board! :)
I completely missed this comment here! And I thought that @ginabot was a perfect messenger :)