Anti-GMOer Latham Attacks Kevin Folta With Trumpish Dishonesty

[HuckleB]

http://kfolta.blogspot.com/2016/10/fake-debates-bogus-tribunals-hallmarks.html

Check out the comments. It appears that Latham actually responded, though there is no way to know if it is him, of course, as another "Jonathan Latham" pointed out.

The antis really don't get how Trump like they act.

[progressoid]

1. Yeah, that is pretty Trumpish.

And like Trump and his followers, it's nearly impossible to reason with them.

[Nitram]

2. People have the right to abstain from eating GMO products, and they have the right to...

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bring to our attention peer-reviewed scientific research to back up their claims. But it really hurts their cause to have people like this on their side. Most of the anti-GMO stuff I see on the web is overblown and hysterical, and based on anecdotal "evidence." I'm open to evidence, and the possibility that GMO crops could reduce biological diversity concerns me. But propaganda and conspiracy theories are just plain bogus.

[HuckleB]

3. Biological diversity is a farming practices issue.

Which is something the anti-GMO crowd seems to conflate a great deal of the time, too.

[Nitram]

5. I'm not sure what kind of distinction you're trying to make.

The choice of seeds, herbicides and other pesticides are all farming practices.

The diversity issue is relevant because if all farmers all over the world start to use exactly the same seeds we will end up with an intense mono culture that could crash if there are no other genotypes of seeds available if and when a GMO seed type is faced with a new disease that wipes them all out. That's the danger of low diversity.

[HuckleB]

6. Oh, FFS. GMO seeds are not monolithic.

The only thing it even denotes is the technology used to develop them.

That has nothing to do with monoculture. How is this so hard to understand?

[Nitram]

7. Huck, you seem to be the one who is having great difficulty understanding that replacing a diverse..

...range of varieties (of corn for example) with one GMO herbicide-resistant variety, creates a monoculture. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Do you have any idea of the number of non-GMO corn varieties there are? Wake up, dude! Learn a little biology before you go off half cocked!

[HuckleB]

8. So you have no actual response to the actual content of my posts.

You just want to pretend.

Got it.

[Nitram]

9. You responded to my comment with a complete lack of understanding of what you are talking about.

You wrote "Biological diversity is a farming practices issue. Which is something the anti-GMO crowd seems to conflate a great deal of the time, too."

When I pointed out that you are in error to suggest that biological diversity is not relevant to the issue of GMO crops, and that anyone who thinks it is is incorrectly conflating GMO with farming practices (the use of GMO crops IS a farming practice), you suggest I'm "just pretending" and "not actually responding to the content of your posts." Very odd. I'm not sure if you have an eyesight problem or a reading comprehension problem. Or perhaps a cognition issue? Good luck with all of that.

[uriel1972]

4. Trumpish dishonesty...

Can we now measure lies in Trumps, milliTrumps, kiloTrumps etc?