Roundup Ready Cannabis: Advice needed

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Just to kind of get an insight on how the gears over at Monsanto turn: Vice recently did a special where they interviewed basically the CEO. The interview is based on the product Roundup. It's a pretty sobering moment when you realize the CEO's mindset. Even when presented with negative evidence and data against his own copyright, he simply disclaims any errors saying, "as a scientist i don't believe we made any errors." Meaning that science is always changing/can be subjected to being wrong so what hes doing is just apart of the process.

The interview is conducted around 5:00 mins into the video, and stretches on while information from around the globe is spliced in. Around 10:00 is when you really catch the mindset that Monsanto has. His attitude is terrifying.......

link to the video if anyone is interested: http://vodlocker.com/9lqpd10pf1br
The second half of the episode is pretty sobering too...

The claim to their MAIN goal is to "feed the world." Albeit a noble thing to strive for they are going about it the wrong way.

Monsanto spends an incredible amount of money in their transgensis department. Specifically their agricultural transgensis department. They take the genes from one species and splice it into another living organism for beneficial traits in that particular crop. In doing this it allows a crop like corn or soy to grow in an environment that it would not normally survive in. For example they are splicing genes into plants that make them resistant to the main ingredient in roundup.


The environment that these plants are genetically engineered to live in is an agricultural one: Huge crops with massive harvests of the same species with ZERO biodiversity in the environment. Constant spraying of pesticides while the soil lives in an area that is raked/tilled every year and amended with unnatural fertilizers. The soil is compressed by giant machinery and chokes out the ability for it to breath and compost correctly. So your left with dirt that's basically dead.

Agriculture works against the system that nature already has in place:

There is a very complex and diverse communication between all plants via their roots. There is a system already in place for these plants. It is a spiderweb of inter-connectivity and communication and nutrient transferring. All plants uptake nutrient and emit nutrient, with a diverse enough community it can self sustain. Where one plant uptakes Nitrogen the neighboring plant next to it will disperse nitrogen(like bushbeans) All of this communication between the biodiversity is negated when you plant 1 species in a 50 acre field.

The more mycelium is studied the more apparent it becomes that roots share a symbiotic cultivation with each-other. And the more bio diversity there is the more transference of food and essential minerals is traded between the species.

Instead of engineering or breeding a plant to survive a terrible environment. You should engineer and build an environment to better accommodate a wide biodiversity.

With the agricultural method:
----Single abundant harvest of malnourished produce
----Soil is plowed and frequently treated with chemicals
----Soil is compacted by heavy machinery and it cant breath property making it worse each year
----Roundup is required constantly, even when shown negative health effects for humans AND still being weed resistant.
----Single crop planting requires high doses of pesticides and fertilizers. its a constant fight against nature and a system already in place.
----This method costs more energy than it actually produces
----Agricultural process is so expensive that without government subsidies they would not make enough money from their crops alone to keep growing.

With the bio diverse method:
---Soil that gets fertilized each year by the succession of dying/successive crops, no need to add fertilizers or till the land with heavy machinery in turn suffocating the soil of its nutrient value.
---Self sustaining ecological partnerships between animals/plants
---No usage of unnatural pesticides, the plants symbiotically acquire a commutative immune system and the attractant of insects brings natural defense to the environment.
---An abundant harvest containing multiple varieties in one root sub-community
---The farmer, the soil, and the animals all benefit from this method

This inter-connectivity between roots has been around long before agriculture was even a word. Why monsanto is spending billions trying to force isolated species to grow in hostile environments soaked in roundup is beyond me. Its 100 times cheaper to engineer a healthy environment & grow a diverse harvest.


There is a much much cheaper way to cultivate crops without forcing a product like roundup or the genetic copyright on created seeds. The system they are building is a malnourished, isolated, genetic abomination that goes against its natural archetype.


Edit: the vod locker link should work you shouldn't;t have to sign up for anything, I'm using an addblocker and vodlocker only requires that you wait 5 seconds before proceeding to the video. If you don't have an add-blocker you might get re-directed.

very well said! much respect!