Bounce Out Blitz, Rated "G" elist, Fencing

I'm posting because I don't have a life and everyone else does. LOL. I'm checking for email, and nobody that I'm interested in is posting any. So what's a guy to do? That's right, he creates his own email. *grin* Thus going for the old axiom, "You shouldn't expect mail if you don't send any". Seriously though, I've read all the email and blogs there were, finished the game of "Bounce Out Blitz" (for the on-line version) that my now sleeping wife started before she layed back down (no, I didn't get her on the 'high score' list), and munched on some more M&Ms. *drooling*

On one list that we are on, but only my wife reads because I've been boycotting it for ages, my wife answered a post where someone asked for a recipe. Well, no one, not even the person who asked the for it, acknowledged her answer. I wrote a letter to said list saying that I was upset that her post was ignored and that she felt offended. Well, because that elist is *SO* G-rated, my post was *denied* because it "could cause an uproar". The whole reason I've been boycotting it is because I was told that because "suck" is a vulgar word (it was in my sig-line ages ago, as in "mean people suck"), I decided I wouldn't post there. So I post today, it's denied, and once again I'm reminded that I don't like the protectionism by the moderators for that list. *sigh* Ah, what the heck, here's my post that was denied...

* Ya know, the fact that *NO ONE* even acknowledged that my wife tried to help, is why she doesn't post much at all. She just got tired of being *IGNORED* when she did post :-( No "thank you's", no nothing, EVER, so why even bother if no one knows you exist?! It seems unless you're one of the "main" posters on this list, your voice isn't heard :-( Yes, I'm upset because I don't like my wife being offended that her help was ignored :-(

Today I think I'll put another T-Post up for the garden fence and then ask Mrs. Wife if she'll help me put the chicken-wire fence around it and the rest of the poles. Other than that, not much planned.

Rambleman

USDA Hides Another Biotech Disaster

And you wonder why I don't trust genetically modified food or the USDA? *sigh*

Rambleman

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USDA Hides Another Biotech Disaster

By Megan Tady, The NewStandard. Posted August 30, 2006.

Bayer CropScience kept it a secret that its genetically modified rice contaminated public food supplies. The government was only too happy to help.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that U.S. commercial long-grain rice supplies are contaminated with "trace amounts" of genetically engineered rice unapproved for human consumption.

The genetically engineered (G.E.) rice is known as Liberty Link (LL) 601. Its genetic code has been modified to provide resistance to herbicides and is illegal for marketing to humans because it has not undergone environmental and health impact reviews by the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). LL601 was field-tested from 1998 to 2001 under permits granted by the USDA, but Bayer Corp Science, the developer of the experimental rice, did not seek commercial approval for it.

The contamination was only disclosed after Bayer notified the USDA itself. Currently, the government relies on self-reporting from food companies to determine genetically engineered (G.E.) contamination, rather than a federal testing system. The USDA dismissed concerns that companies may not always "self-report" or even be aware of their mistakes, which would lead to further undetected contamination of unapproved G.E. food.

It appears a separate company first detected the contamination in January of this year and that Bayer may have known about the contamination since May. But the government was not notified until July 31. It took another 18 days for the USDA to tell the public.

At a press conference, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns would not divulge how the contamination had happened, or how far it had spread. It was unclear whether he even knew. Jim Rogers, a USDA spokesperson, told The NewStandard the contaminated rice was detected in barrels sent to Missouri and Arizona.

"But the rice could have come from anywhere [in the U.S.]," Rogers said.

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