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Jon_in_london
28th March 2003, 12:18 PM
Hehe!!! :D I have been waiting for this for a loooong time!!
Fcuk you ciabata-munching, cell-phone toting, 4wheeldrive driving greenpeace/FOE cnuts!!!!!!!!!!!! Stick this in your fcuking pipes and SMOKE IT!!!!!!!!! :D

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=12533

Seven of every 10 South African cotton farmers have switched to genetically modified (GM) varieties. The others still plant conventional cotton and use pesticides and chemical fertilisers. South Africa has no market for organic cotton. The GM farmers produced 25 130 tonnes of cotton in the 2001/02 growing season.

On the Springbok Flats, north of Pretoria, Willem van der Walt runs a mixed farm producing sorghum, cotton, rotational crops and pigs. He is a firm GM convert.

“It is absolutely essential,” he says. “Our production costs have decreased 40%. Zero tillage allows for greater water retention in the soil, we use fewer pesticides and our maintenance costs for machinery are less.”

Van der Walt insists his farming methods are environmentally sensitive because he uses less pesticide.

Andonyx
28th March 2003, 12:59 PM
I recently became a GM convert after switching to Quest (http://www.questcigs.com/) cigarettes.

Ahh the joys of nicotineless smokes, and all the handcrafted love of the Amish!

RichardR
28th March 2003, 02:14 PM
What does this have to do with General Motors?

(Oh, OK I get it.)

phobos
28th March 2003, 02:38 PM
Originally posted by Andonyx
I recently became a GM convert after switching to Quest (http://www.questcigs.com/) cigarettes.

Ahh the joys of nicotineless smokes, and all the handcrafted love of the Amish!

I thought the whole reason people got addicted to tobacco was because of the nicotine? What good are nicotine-free cigarettes? Aren't you just filling up on carbon monoxide without getting any of the actual drug?

I can imagine nicotine-free tobacco being great to cut with grass if you don't want to get hooked on the bad stuff, but why put it in tobacco cigarettes?

Houngan
28th March 2003, 07:32 PM
Originally posted by phobos


I thought the whole reason people got addicted to tobacco was because of the nicotine? What good are nicotine-free cigarettes? Aren't you just filling up on carbon monoxide without getting any of the actual drug?

I can imagine nicotine-free tobacco being great to cut with grass if you don't want to get hooked on the bad stuff, but why put it in tobacco cigarettes?

I imagine it's like the reverse of nicotine gum, easing you off the addiction while still providing the mental "fix."

H.