Comments on: Despite Industry Claims, Herbicide Use Fails to Decline with GE Crops http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5414 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Luke Souter http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5414#comment-145344 Luke Souter Wed, 02 May 2012 13:09:52 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5414#comment-145344 I can’t help but interject as a student of Biology (before you accuse me of being a corporate puppet) as i simply want to ask people a couple of questions before they choose to be anti-pesticide?

1) If pesticides were not used in your article you believe that farmers could still get the same volumes of yield. I ask you why, if farmers can get more money for organic crops, do they still choose to spray pesticides then? If they can get more yield at a better price without using pesticides then they would indeed do that. Farmers are not stupid. Surely this is not science, or the corporate companies losing their way but actually helping eleviate the very apparent and real food security problem.

2) The problem that lies at the heart of the issue is what would you rather save: Starving humans or biodiversity? It really is the inconvenient truth. If you support the anti-pesticide movement as a consequence you are choosing biodiversity.

I only ask people to consider the consequences of their actions before simply choosing to rebel against corporate organisations on principle.

]]> By: Dinah Everett Snyder http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5414#comment-113813 Dinah Everett Snyder Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:55:58 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5414#comment-113813 An ecological, environmental and generational disaster, happening now! Time to shut down “food like” substances, chemicals masquerading as food, and corporate profits before ethical concerns for global populations.Science has indeed lost it’s way.

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