Farming ...

ross · Post by **ross** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:40 am

Thought this appropriate for some of today's attitudes.

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:42 am

I love it, and i want a sweater or hoodie with this on it! LOL
oh, yesterday, when i got my sweet corn, the guy there was telling me that he has had people asking about the sweet corn, is it GMO...well, it's roundup ready....they are refusing to buy it because it's round up ready and therefore GMO and going to kill them.

ross · Post by **ross** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:49 am

As I've said before , most folks don't know what they don't know . Get all their education from social media . Luck

goatgal35 · Post by **goatgal35** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:08 pm

What is wrong with not wanting to eat GMOs or roundup? I think it's great that consumers are asking questions and making informed decisions about what they eat. It sure beats going along like a bunch of lemmings.

ross · Post by **ross** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:44 pm

Nothin wrong with asking it Goatgal I'm still waiting for the science behind it not just social media fear mongering . It's just when someone tells me by legislation / force what I can or can't eat . Choice is what I want . How many times have they flip flopped on coffee good for u or not . Now seems it's ok again . I believe everything in moderation even moderation . I could go on for ever but yu know what I mean .
Shirt doesn't say you can't choose just quit tellin farmers their trying to kill people . Yu don't like it don't eat it .
PS and then we all jump in our vehicle ( including me goin for hair cut today ) & pollute our way all over all kinds of food & air as we go about our business . Luck

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:53 pm

i just take issue with the fact that people refuse to eat "gmo" when practically ALL our food is gmo (genetically modified organism) in some way or another and has been since we interbred plants (and other organisms) to tolerate our environment....it's genetically modified from the heirloom varieties, maybe not through using molecular biology techniques, but through selective breeding and cross breeding....
practically everything is now...i think "gmo" is a fancy term that a lot of people just don't really understand what it means....if we did not have gmo we wouldn't HAVE corn in our area. or soybeans. or winter wheat. or drought tolerant anything, or blight resistant tomatoes....all those are altered in some way from the native plants or "heirloom" plants=aka gmo. even sweet corn is a gmo-selectively bred to carry higher sugar content than the original maize plants. (i'm a molecular biologist.....gmo can mean a lot of things....and the way it's used in the world today drives me a bit insane).

Post by **Killerbunny** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:57 pm

It can be Round up ready but you don't have to use roundup on it. I would just like to know when certain chemicals have been used so I can make my own decisions.

ross · Post by **ross** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:14 pm

Go figure
Haha luck

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:07 pm

Up until the 1950's all farming was organic. Small fields of a crop (5 acres) and crop rotation was the only way to deal with diseases/mold/fungus. Now fields are 100 acres, our "high speed" world means that diseases/insects easily hitch a ride from one continent to another thus the EUROPEAN corn borer. Now farmers specialize so they only own equipment for growing/harvesting one crop. So they plant the same crop on the same land year after year and use chemicals to keep up with the pests. Glyphosate (roundup) kills weeds by preventing nutrient absorption by the plant so it starves and dies. Does glyphosate residues in our food prevent the plants we do eat from absorbing nutrients from the soil? Therefore our food doesn't contain the nutrients it once did. And if glyphosate and gmo's are so good for human consumption why did they attach an amendment to a farm bill (US Congress) that protects companies that produce genetically morified organisms from prosecution should their products later prove to be harmful to humans (refferred to as the Monsanto Protection Act)? I learned about it watching Jon Stewart on the Daily Show (late night "political" comedy. I know that Monsanto has in their employ more private investigators than any police force and they routinely sue their customers!
Why do they employ so many lobbyists and why do they sue so many organic farmers?

Watch Vandana Shiva on youtube. Why do so many farmers in India commit suicide?

ross · Post by **ross** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:32 pm

And the beat goes on . Luck