Comments on: I write letters: Urban myths about HR 875

By: Karl Haro von Mogel

Karl Haro von Mogel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:31:16 +0000

Hehe, you’re funny. You go to the effort of producing and uploading a video, and you come here to promote it. When I ask you to provide evidence for your claims, you call me lazy! I’m ready and waiting to spend my time evaluating your evidence, all you need to do is provide it. Lazy is as lazy does.

I’ll leave you to consider the irony of how you are trying to criticize my ability to do research while saying that I have a Ph.D… if you actually read my short bio above, you’ll see that I’m just a Ph.D. student… still a few years to go on the degree!

By: wes

wes — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:38:39 +0000

“I’m glad to hear you have also slogged your way through the bill.”

Seeing how you have a “Ph.D” maybe you should learn how to do resarch. Lazy?

By: Karl Haro von Mogel

Karl Haro von Mogel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:05:33 +0000

Wes, all of our crops have had their genetics modified over the milennia by one means of another. Genetic Engineering is one of the latest means to do that. Before that, though, breeders have used mutagenesis, crosses with wild relatives, polyploidy (duplicating all the chromosomes in a cell), and more. My comment was to point out the misnomer that only genetically engineered crops are “genetically modified.”

Fabulous! I’m glad to hear you have also slogged your way through the bill. Please enlighten everyone by pointing out where exactly in the bill, quoting the text, backyard gardens will be affected. You say that you will have to pay $500 just to garden in your back yard.

In addition, in your video, you make this claim: “If you read these bills they want to pump all these chemicals into our food now.” Where do they say that?

You (and others) make some pretty outlandish claims about these bills, so the onus is on you to demonstrate where they say what you claim they do. My main point is that there are a lot of people who have very passionate opinions on this bill (amongst others) but have not taken the time to read and understand them in the context ot food safety regulation, instead relying on urban myths passed around by chain emails.

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:16:05 +0000

I grow heirloom plnats. I dont see how they are GM.

But how can you comment on HR 875 if you have not read the bill? I have read it front to back.You should do the same.

By: Karl Haro von Mogel

Karl Haro von Mogel — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:43:21 +0000

Wes, I have nothing to financially gain nor lose by the passage of HR 875. As I stated above, I have no position on it because I do not know enough about it.

As for your YouTube video, again, you are perpetuating the same myth that these laws are going to go after your backyard garden. I have a backyard garden, too, and I would be among the first to campaign against this law if it actually did that. Where in the act does it actually say it will do what you think?

By the way, your backyard garden plants are indeed genetically modified, just not by genetic engineering.

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:21:05 +0000

Myth? You would like this to go threw. More money in your pocket.
GM corn hurts my body and makes me very sick. Look at what Monsanto has done to India.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As_9DXMwJ1Q