Vatican Endorses GM Foods
431 ViewsI don’t expect much from the elitist over at the Vatican, but this is too much.
THE Vatican seldom approves of scientists meddling with God’s creation. So the decision of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to back oft-demonised genetically modified crops as an answer to world hunger and poverty may come as a surprise.
GM crops were heartily endorsed at a week-long seminar held by the academy in mid-May. Participants agreed that the crops offer food safety and security, better health and environmental sustainability. That verdict is not shared by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, a global UN-backed think tank that last year rejected GM as a solution to hunger. Genetically modified crops get the Vatican’s blessing
Somebody should tell those morons over in Rome about the hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers who have committed suicide because of GM crops. And how GM crops absolutely destroy critical biodiversity and crop strains thousands of years old, and how GM crops create hunger, starvation, sickness and disease, and that giving Monsanto and ADM the ‘papal blessing’ is nothing more then the kiss of death for billions of people.
More proof that religion and intelligence and awareness of fact, reality and consequences don’t mix. You can’t have both and allow the other to survive, so you get to be their mistake.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
“ALL religion is evil” (by definition)
- the RC’s ‘just’ have much more practice/experience at evil than most others (so far).
At this point (in HIStory), anything that ‘limits’ (reduces) the human population should IMO be considered a good thing. Driving around in circles in a H1 hummer could also be considered helpful. Crank up the air-conditioner. Nope, no ‘global warming’ (climatic chaos) here. Now, get back to the Holy Mall Oh ye consumer slave whores. Consume the Earth to “save” it.
“What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either,
1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or
2nd it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or
3rd it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or
4th it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.” ~ James Madison, 1791
June 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I hate to say it, but you guys (admin and lonewolf) make more sense than anyone else.
*weeps unconsolably*
June 7th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Don’t you bet that every single one of the GM proponents eats organically when possible? Betcha Bill and Melinda eat organically, while trying to dump GM on third-world countries under the guise of “helping feed the world”. What a laugh.
And betcha the pope wouldn’t touch GM with a 10-foot pole.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Religion isn’t about ’salvation’, it’s about control, and GM foods are the perfect answer to that problem.
If you look around, the reality is nobody (in control) really wants you to live very long, once your useful productive years as a wage slave are used up, you might as well be gone too, making room for the next crop of slaves.
GM foods are but one of the ‘answers’ to this ‘need’. So is the entire medical industry.
Wrapping itself around most aspect of ‘life as we know it’ (which is to say, our “daily sacrifice” of life, liberty, health, happiness and sanity) is religion, which promises everything it never can possibly deliver under the guise that the facts cannot be checked or verified until after your (conveniently) dead.
Indeed, much much more could be said, but no need. Its BAU even for the Vatican and all their ilk and kind.