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Don't farmers buy crop insurance protecting them from price fluctuations? I maybe 100% wrong.
Well you're only 50% wrong Farmers do buy crop insurance, but the coverage is to protect them from natural perils, most commonly flood or drought.
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I know a dairy farmer who has a home here who is able to buy insurance to protect his business from milk price fluctuations in his home state.
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Well you're only 50% wrong Farmers do buy crop insurance, but the coverage is to protect them from natural perils, most commonly flood or drought.
Couldn't I have been 50% right
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Washington Post 1/28/14 -- "This week, Congress will vote on a massive farm bill that will set the course of U.S. food policy for the next half-decade. The old farm bill expired in 2012, and its replacement (pdf) is 959 pages long, costing some $956.4 billion over 10 years.

So what’s actually in it? I've made a pie chart below to outline the basics….."

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I know a dairy farmer who has a home here who is able to buy insurance to protect his business from milk price fluctuations in his home state.
The Farm Bill had price supports for the dairy industry retained - thanks to lobbyists. So, if you think milk is overpriced at the grocery store, thank a lobbyist and the congressmen that were paid off.

The Farm Bill also took away 8 billion dollars in food stamps for the needy.
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Genetic modified foods have been around for a very long time. Our world population has exceeded early predictions and it will continue to grow especially in underdeveloped countries. Farm technology is a good thing and will keep the world growing population fed. This is another one of those divided issues. The oceans resources are being depleted, the amount of land for agriculture fixed technology has to progress. Finding better ways to raise herds ,etc essential. I have been eating genetic modified corn etc and so far I haven't grown breasts. so I think I'll continue.

P.S. I will be disappointed if some of you don't come back with all the horribles that will be created from Franken foods.


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So, rubicon, you put it to the breast test and it passed? I guess that makes you a scientist.

What about a pesky thing known as "gene transfer"? Hardier corn has led to hardier weeds known as "Super Weeds". These super weeds can't even be killed with Roundup weed killer. The natural balance of nature has been lost, thanks to the know-it-all genetic engineers.
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So, rubicon, you put it to the breast test and it passed? I guess that makes you a scientist.

What about a pesky thing known as "gene transfer"? Hardier corn has led to hardier weeds known as "Super Weeds". These super weeds can't even be killed with Roundup weed killer. The natural balance of nature has been lost, thanks to the know-it-all genetic engineers.
Not only that, the GMO seeds have been migrating into their next-door neighbors' natural seed land.
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A couple years ago the corn crop was poor and the price of meat sky rocketed due to having a shortage of food for the animals. Corn for animals and corn for humans requires the same conditions. If it is a good corn crop, does that mean it will be less to feed the animals and meat prices will drop?
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Unless your corn has many colors of kernels and very crooked rows (what is referred to as Indian corn), then it has been genetically modified.
Straight rows and uniform colors are indicative of this type of genetic modification, and it happened even before there was a company named Monsanto!
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Unless your corn has many colors of kernels and very crooked rows (what is referred to as Indian corn), then it has been genetically modified.
Straight rows and uniform colors are indicative of this type of genetic modification, and it happened even before there was a company named Monsanto!

Genetic modification happens naturally as plants evolve just as animals do. The hardiest survive. I do not think there is danger from eating genetically modified food.
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If the farmers can't make money growing corn this year, maybe they should just plant something else. Soybeans perhaps.
Blame the market, not Monsanto.
But that's not part of the agenda here.
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Genetic modification happens naturally as plants evolve just as animals do. The hardiest survive. I do not think there is danger from eating genetically modified food.

Gracie hits the nail on the head again.
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If the farmers can't make money growing corn this year, maybe they should just plant something else. Soybeans perhaps.
Blame the market, not Monsanto.
But that's not part of the agenda here.
Soybeans are GM also. The reason they are GM is to be able to withstand all the roundup, herbicides,and pesticides. The residue is in your food.
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Genetic modification happens naturally as plants evolve just as animals do. The hardiest survive. I do not think there is danger from eating genetically modified food.
Yes, natural genetic modification happens but only very small changes happen over tens of thousands of years.
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