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Title: Taco Bell serving ‘soylent gringo’? GMO corn causes concern
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Pocho
URL Source: http://pocho.com/gmo-corn-monsanto-taco-bell-soylent-gringo/
Published: Aug 20, 2013
Author: Victor Payan
Post Date: 2013-08-20 15:53:39 by X-15
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Views: 225
Comments: 13
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, DC) A new Food and Drug Administration study has detected a questionable strain of genetically-engineered corn in taco shells produced for Taco Bell. “It could cause digestive problems, cramping, spasms, allergic reactions and even night blindness,” Colonel Ben Enoso of the FDA’s Genetic Corn Division told a press conference Monday. “Unfortunately, this makes it pretty hard to distinguish from other Taco Bell food items.” The corn, which carries a gene designed to kill insect pests if eaten, has been approved as feed for animals but not humans. Scientists suspect the human body will not be able to digest a key protein in this killer corn and privately dread having to dig around for undigested corn samples afterwards. Anti-GMO activists see this as part of a plan to sneak genetically-engineered foods into the global digestive system. “They’re pushing this monster maize down our throats,” Barry Aguitado, spokesman for the Tortilla Liberation Front told PNS, “so corporations can control the world food supply. Then, with their Monsanto Protection Act, they’ll have us by the niblets.” Another group, Children of the Corn, recently destroyed genetically-engineered crops in greenhouses at UCSD. “They were developing a strain of hominy that will be ineffective against the cruda,” said Han Gober, a member of the group, adding, “we had to stop them in the name of all that is holy.” Aguitado and others accuse multinational corporations of putting profits before public health when it comes to introducing genetically-engineered foods into the human diet. Prof. Gene Fregadera of Buscalana Laboratories disagrees. “We test all our products thoroughly on Angry Birds. They fly through the air with the greatest of ease.” But critics are not convinced and remain mistrustful of the unseen hand of science. The FDA report follows a recent discovery in Battle Creek, MI of a seven-ton production run of Cheerios made with pet-food-grade oats — oats genetically engineered to teach dogs to play poker. “Corporations need to stop playing with our food and keep their hands out of our genes,” Peter E. Dische, author of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Our Cells, wrote in a column for the Huffington Post. “The use of genetic engineering, growth hormones and improper megafarm techniques have also created such public health disasters as Mad Cow Disease and new poultry epidemics such as Daffy Duck Disorder and the Silly Goose Syndrome.” But how did a potentially dangerous corn strain ended up in something as basic as taco shells? Increasingly, GMO food incidents are forcing corporations like Monsanto and Taco Bell to defend their products. At a hastily-called press conference after the release of the FDA report, a Taco Bell spokesman went on the offensive: Taco Bell food products are perfectly safe. I’ve eaten lots of genetically engineered food, and I’m just fine. Sure, I’m a Chihuahua, and I have acquired the power of speech, but what poker-playing dog hasn’t?
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
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Play it again Sam. "“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha I get the shits after eating at most fast-food restaurants so I simply don't eat there anymore. Between the chemicals, high fructose corn syrup, and other shit ingredients, I cannot justify eating it if it were given to me for free, I certainly can't see paying for it.
Sure. Look at the kind of people those places hire. Mostly low grade skums working part time for minimum wage. Lots of 'em are there after "behavioral modification" and "occupational therapy" ordered by the courts. Nowadays, you don't have to be a pig to get extra spit on your burger, you just have to be white.
56 corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
OK, you got my attention. “It could cause digestive problems, cramping, spasms, allergic reactions and even night blindness,” Colonel Ben Enoso of the FDA’s Genetic Corn Division told a press conference Monday. “Unfortunately, this makes it pretty hard to distinguish from other Taco Bell food items.”
“It could cause digestive problems, cramping, spasms, allergic reactions and even night blindness,” Colonel Ben Enoso of the FDA’s Genetic Corn Division told a press conference Monday. “Unfortunately, this makes it pretty hard to distinguish from other Taco Bell food items.”
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#2. To: Original_Intent (#1)
#3. To: Katniss (#2)
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#4. To: X-15 (#0)
Another group, Children of the Corn, recently destroyed genetically-engineered crops in greenhouses at UCSD. “They were developing a strain of hominy that will be ineffective against the cruda,” said Han Gober, a member of the group, adding, “we had to stop them in the name of all that is holy.”
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#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
...servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit...
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
Burrough's Naked Lunch makes more sense than Meet The PressNow a word about the parties of Interzone.... It will be immediately clear that the Liquefaction Party is, except for one man, entirely composed of dupes, it not being clear until the final absorption who is whose dupe.... The Liquefactionists are much given to every form of perversion, especially sado-masochistic practices.... Liquefactionists in general know what the score is. The Senders, on the other hand, are notorious for their ignorance of the nature and terminal state of sending, for barbarous and self- righteous manners, and for rabid fear of any fact --. It was only the intervention of the Factualists that prevented the Senders from putting Einstein in an institution and destroying his theory. It may be said that only a very few Senders know what they are doing and these top Senders are the most dangerous and evil men in the world.... Techniques of Sending were crude at first. Fadeout to the National Electronic Conference in Chicago. The Conferents are putting on their overcoats.... The speaker talks in a fiat shopgirl voice: "In closing I want to sound a word of warning.... The logical extension of encephalographic research is biocontrol; that is control of physical movement, mental processes, emotional reactions and apparent sensory impressions by means of bioelectric signals injected into the nervous system of the subject." "Louder and funnier!" The Conferents are trouping out in clouds of dust.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#7. To: Dakmar (#4)
Manna Because no one had a window, they could really pack people into these buildings. Each terrafoam dorm building had a four-acre foot print. It was a perfect 417 foot by 417 foot by 417 foot solid brown cube. Each cube originally held exactly 76,800 people. Doubling this to 153,600 people in each building was unthinkable, but they were doing it anyway. On the other hand, you had to marvel at the efficiency. At that density, they could house every welfare recipient in the entire country in less than 1,500 of these buildings. By spacing the buildings 100 feet apart, they could house 200,000,000 people in a space of less than 20 square miles if they had wanted to. At that density, they could put everyone in the country without a job into a space less than five miles square in size, put a fence around it and forget about us. If they accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb or two on us, we would all be gone and they wouldn't have to worry about us anymore.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#8. To: Esso (#7) (Edited)
Sounds like a plan, but who is going to buy all the grape flavored tea and blinged out air freshener dispensers?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#9. To: Dakmar (#8)
I'm just the engineer, you need to talk to marketing.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#10. To: Esso (#9)
We missed out on this Esso, being Hoosier Hicks. A damn good thing we did if you ask me. :) But there is no drag like U.S. drag. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from. Take one of those cocktail lounges at the end of a subdivision street -- every block of houses has its own bar and drugstore and market and liquor store. You walk in and it hits you. But where does it come from? Not the bartender, not the customers, nor the cream-colored plastic rounding the bar stools, nor the dim neon. Not even the TV. And our habits build up with the drag, like cocaine will build you up staying ahead of the C bring-down. And the junk was running low. So there we are in this no-horse town strictly from cough syrup. And vomited up the syrup and drove on and on, cold spring wind whistling through that old heap around our shivering sick sweating bodies and the cold you always come down with when the junk runs out of you.... On through the peeled landscape, dead armadillos in the road and vultures over the swamp and cypress stumps. Motels with beaverboard walls, gas heater, thin pink blankets. Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas.... And no one in his right mind would hit a Louisiana croaker. State Junk Law. Came at last to Houston where I know a druggist. I haven't been there in five years but he looks up and makes me with one quick look and just nods and says: "Wait over at the counter...." So I sit down and drink a cup of coffee and after a while he comes and sits beside me and says, "What do you want?" "A quart of PG and a hundred nembies." He nods, "Come back in half an hour." So when I come back he hands me a package and says, "That's fifteen dollars.... Be careful." Shooting PG is a terrible hassle, you have to burn out the alcohol first, then freeze out the camphor and draw this brown liquid off with a dropper -- have to shoot it in the vein or you get an 14 abscess, and usually end up with an abscess no matter where you shoot it. Best deal is to drink it with goof balls.... So we pour it in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans, neon arabesques of motels, marooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish...
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#11. To: Katniss (#2)
I had a similar reaction that caused me to give up most fast food (and I have not eaten at a fast food restaurant in close to 2 years). In my case it was the realization that I felt not quite nauseated after eating fast food - McFuud in particularly. It gave me a queasy feeling and a sense of unwellness. So, I stopped eating at McDoofus altogether in about 2008 or '9, and the only fast food restaurant I visited after that was a small local chain which used better ingredients (and of course had higher prices). Anymore, if I want a hamburger, it is Organic Grass Fed Beef, or, even better, Buffalo. And I cook it myself. I get the shits after eating at most fast-food restaurants so I simply don't eat there anymore. Between the chemicals, high fructose corn syrup, and other shit ingredients, I cannot justify eating it if it were given to me for free, I certainly can't see paying for it.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#12. To: Dakmar, Esso (#10)
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#13. To: Original_Intent (#11)
Ted Nugent singing about Fred Bear and bowhunting:
-Alex Kurtagic
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