in which i rant about the USDA awhile.

[chris_warrior]

the USDA report.the language is biased against organic methods (shocker), and the charts of releases of genes are alarming (shocker). but some hopeful news in the decrease in overall approvals since the late 1990's/early 2000's? (Figure 1). also not a shock that Monsanto is the clear leader in releases (Figure 4), that nearly a quarter of all

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[ravena_kade]

Allowing people to have jobs else where? Where is a person whose qualifications for work is farming going to find a non farming job? At Walmart and living on food stamps?

[chris_warrior]

they don't specify, but perhaps they're doing server or stocking jobs, yes. would make sense. or work-from-home-type stuff?

[guy_todd]

Non-eradicable super weeds; just what the planet needs. :\

o.O

[chris_warrior]

don't worry - they have a new mix from Dow Chemical that combines something more toxic than Round-Up with ROund-Up's active ingredient, and new varities of plants GE'd to be resistant to it.