Did you know Roundup Ready sweet corn is now available?

[Bentleg]

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[DFB]

Just read another another interesting perspective on the looming 2013 Farm Bill in Congress.

The last bill was passed in 2008. And what policies are made this year will run from 2014-2023.

According to the article the farm bill sets a minimum price for sugar, mainly US-grown sugar from beets. Criticisms of course are that the country is fueling Big Sugar through subsidized loans and import restrictions from cane-sugar-producing countries in Central America and the Caribbean.

Since sugar is in nearly everything, many supermarket products will cost more when sugar prices rise. And as long as sugar prices are high, food companies will continue to favor chemical sugar substitutes and products like high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from heavily subsidized corn industry instead and health advocates continually point to high-fructose corn syrup as a potentially harmful contributor to obesity.

Its really really interesting to see how most every aspect of the 1 trillion dollar farm bill involves subsidation of our entire food industry whether it be big ag commodity production, public benefit programs or industry sales.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

So your contention is that it would have been more ecologically sound to landfill this yet unnamed, undocumented flouride compound in concentrated areas rather than disperse it throughout the environment in a manner that provided documented health benefits? Maybe you could expand on that a little.

Could have just used the Flourine to produce Uranium Hexaflouride for centrifuge enrichment processing.

 

[DFB]

Well came across this nifty list of every politician in the House and Senate who recieved money from Monsanto

Extensive List of Politicians Paid Off by Monsanto


The article also reiterates that RT had reported back in March how Senator Roy Blunt alone received $64,250 towards his campaign from Monsanto paid to "help write' the recently passed Monsanto Protection Act that grants the company immunity from federal courts rulings on gmo plantings.


And of late there has been a fast movement from many processed food manufacturers toward sourcing non gmo ingredients.

The NY Times ran an article Sunday in the business section Companies seeking ingredients that aren't gene altered
and trade pub Western Producer has announced that a Washington state canola processing plant is seeking all the non GM grown canola they can get to meet consumer demand for such products. Considering that the article states 97.5% of all Canadian grown canola is GM that will be no easy task!

 

[DFB]

Just off the wire!

UPDATE 1-U.S. finds unapproved genetically modified wheat in Oregon | Reuters

Monsanto Modified Wheat Not Approved by USDA Found in Field - Bloomberg


I guess all they can say is...oops! :shocked:

 

[Haasman]

One thing is certain; organic food production cannot feed the world's population.

We are not going to feed the world. But for those we do feed, I am going to do my best to make sure it the best food, practices and production I can do. I couldn't live with myself knowing I was producing poison consumed by customers and friends, not to mention my family.

How many of us have lost someone to cancer. How many more will we loose? The background accumulation of pesticides GMO's in our bodies is unprecedented. I don't need the government to tell me something is wrong here. I can see it.

Each of us have to make this decision, and sometimes daily. Its hard sometimes, as often the right thing to do often is. But in the end I want to know I did everything I could possibly do on my part.

Monsanto and GMO's aren't going to bring back my friends and family members.

 

[bwquestion]

If anyone is stupid enough to plant a gmo food-like-product they really should not be farming. Even just 15 minutes or simple research should be a wake up call.

 

[MoreBoostPlease]

This is why I have chosen to grow and raise all of my own organic food. I can not imagine how some of you feel that consuming Monsanto/Dow/etc. gmo corn (or other crops) related products that have literally been grown in poison (ie. Roundup) are not hazardous to our health. More mind blowing is how our government encourages and subsidizes these growing practices to flood the market with cheap so called food (corn feed, high fructose corn syrup, etc.). Of course it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the FDA rules these crops as safe – much of the senior leadership team at the FDA were previous Monsanto executives. If that’s not a conflict of interest, I don’t know what is. One of two things will happen in the future – this country will finally rise up and demand change, or at some point the massive mono-crop nature of our farming system will be crippled by drought or disease.

I find it comical that the Monsanto executives, ****, even our President all support gmo food yet they all privately eat organic. Monsanto even prefers to serve organics at their corporate offices – that’s a loud enough message that they won’t even consume what they sell.

Lastly, please support GMO labeling. Our government will never ban GMO seeds like many other countries – our leadership falls to the knees or big business. Why? Money. They keep each other rich.

End rant.

 

[BADBRAIN]

I would never use it. I believe the long term effects from this stuff is going to come out in the wash in about ten year and its thr young people who are going to be the victim of cancers and digestive problems. I also believe that the bee's may be effected by this. I save my seeds too ,so this g.m.o. seed is just another way for big business too rake in the money.

 

[sd455dan]

I would never use it. I believe the long term effects from this stuff is going to come out in the wash in about ten year and its thr young people who are going to be the victim of cancers and digestive problems. I also believe that the bee's may be effected by this. I save my seeds too ,so this g.m.o. seed is just another way for big business too rake in the money.

for the decline in Bee populations check out (RESONANCE : FREQUENCY of BEINGS) it makes it clear that electromagnetic radiation -mainly radio frequencies for cell towers and the like- is also contributing to diminished bee populations...

 

[DFB]

Anybody seen or heard of bioluminescent technology

It's a gmo and involves gene insertion but the developers prefer to use the terminology.... "synthetic biology".

Hey its all in the name right

The NY Times recently published this story on the research company that's developing bioluminescent plants and eventually hopes to develop trees that glow in the dark to replace street lighting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/b...ing-trees-is-assailed-for-gene-tinkering.html


According to a link in the article no USDA approval will be needed as the agricultural department has so far determined that it does not currently fall under its jurisdiction

Supposedly there has been a startup business venture launch to sell seeds to grow a plant that has already been developed to generate money for more investment

Glowing Plant Releases Maker Kit, Enabling Anyone to Make a Glowing Plant at Home

Interestingly the company base is in St Louis Mo. the same place as Monsanto :shocked:

I wonder if I'll see these sold down at the greenhouse anytime soon!

 

[sixdogs]

I'd like to learn more. Can you provide some research links so I can do my due diligence on this?

We are not going to feed the world. But for those we do feed, I am going to do my best to make sure it the best food, practices and production I can do. I couldn't live with myself knowing I was producing poison consumed by customers and friends, not to mention my family.

How many of us have lost someone to cancer. How many more will we loose? The background accumulation of pesticides GMO's in our bodies is unprecedented. I don't need the government to tell me something is wrong here. I can see it.

Each of us have to make this decision, and sometimes daily. Its hard sometimes, as often the right thing to do often is. But in the end I want to know I did everything I could possibly do on my part.

Monsanto and GMO's aren't going to bring back my friends and family members.

 

[super55]

DFB

Thanks for the links you posted on those glow in the dark plants. Pretty amazing stuff. Hopefully they do it to grass also. I would bring a whole new meaning to twilight golf.:thumbsup:

 

[riptides]

Heard Japan banned all imports of USA wheat due to that Roundup strain found.

 

[DFB]

DFB

Thanks for the links you posted on those glow in the dark plants. Pretty amazing stuff. Hopefully they do it to grass also. I would bring a whole new meaning to twilight golf.:thumbsup:

LOL! I think they watched Avatar waaay too much!

 

[tcreeley]

I listened to a radio program that said the the ag workers in Argentina are complaining and getting sick from working in roundup fields. The roundup gmo coating on the seed gets into the dirt and into the dust. The dust is inhaled by the workers and makes them sick. One person also said that after 20 years of no till roundup use, the field is dead, nothing will grow.
Also I came across an article that said that the bee colony collapse is due to the dust from fields growing gmo crops. The seeds are coated and get into the dirt and dust.
90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide | Mother Jones

 

[DFB]

Just catching up on my weekend reading staying informed on the latest worldwide action concerning GM use and acceptance.

Most recent developments are that the Philippines has stopped experimental field testing of GM eggplant a Bacillus thuringiensis version

To quote the recent court decision "Bt eggplants could not be declared as safe to human health and to our ecology with full scientific certainty, being an alteration of an otherwise natural state of affairs in our ecology.

CA stops field testing of GMO eggplants | Inquirer News


And the Venezuela gov't is looking to enact a law guaranteeing the security and sovereignty of small to medium farmers against the threat of domination by transgenic seed use. According to the article the goal is to preserve the biological diversity of the nation and its food sovereignty, because the use of transgenic seeds in member countries of the South Common Market (MERCOSUR) such as Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, is now a reality and transgenic seed market is under the monopoly of a few transnational companies, including Monsanto.

Venezuela Goes for Ban on GM Seeds | NationofChange


Always interesting news...

 

[NorTracNY]

If I invent a wonderful product, I'd be proud of it and advertise that product. I'd want people to know the benefits of it and why it's so great. I'd look to have people ask for it by name.

If I invent crap and just want to make money, I'd do something a little different.

Does anyone disagree?

 

[DFB]

I agree!

 

[Car Doc]

I was in our local coop the other day and they asked me if I was growing corn again his year (yes) and they told me they can sell bt roundup ready sweet corn now. I heard about it last year already guys had it planted. Its $7 an ounce just about what I pay for the hybrid sh2 variety I use now fwtw. I have corn up about 2' now and wont have time for a second planting but next year I am trying it.

If for no other reason to know what its like to not have weeds and bugs :laughing:. The reviews of this sweet corn from everybody around here that's tried it or seen it is they cant believe their eyes. Its full clear to the end not a bug anywhere and real sweet just like you expect normal sweet corn and they did nothing to it but a little herbicide and water.

The strange thing to me is some guys have said they seeded this in amongst irrigated field corn and it still comes out as sweet corn??? That is odd it must be open pollinated or they picked the exact right time to plant elifino I will find out more when I get some to try?