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yes corn, Zea mays, the exotic plant that has been selected to survive much further than it should
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Bad corn, badly tested GMO product
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
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Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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I reviewed another anti Monsanto book: Seeds of deception
https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Deception- ... X8NTCCZCW6
There are several books on GMO crops and Monsanto. This one gives references to actual published papers, so at least those papers are peer reviewed. The company makes seed products, so its products will likely end up in packaged foods. mainly corn and soybean. There are no GMO wheat products on the market. Even pop corn is not GMO.
If you wish to look up the pesticide in most GMO product, Bacillus thuringiensis, see that entry in Wikipedia. It is mostly digested to small bits of protein and there are no studies showing a major problem in humans.
Another Wikipedia article "Genetically modified food controversies" runs nicely through the history of controversies, so you do not have to buy another book, a pro-GMO book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetical ... troversies
The main objection to GMO foods is not related to the consumer, but rather to the monopoly that is currently guiding our farmers. Diversity is also generally thought to be the more rugged solution to food, whereas the monoculture products we get now need yearly tinkering at the DNA level.
So there you go. The issue will not go away, follow it at your news source.
https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Deception- ... X8NTCCZCW6
There are several books on GMO crops and Monsanto. This one gives references to actual published papers, so at least those papers are peer reviewed. The company makes seed products, so its products will likely end up in packaged foods. mainly corn and soybean. There are no GMO wheat products on the market. Even pop corn is not GMO.
If you wish to look up the pesticide in most GMO product, Bacillus thuringiensis, see that entry in Wikipedia. It is mostly digested to small bits of protein and there are no studies showing a major problem in humans.
Another Wikipedia article "Genetically modified food controversies" runs nicely through the history of controversies, so you do not have to buy another book, a pro-GMO book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetical ... troversies
The main objection to GMO foods is not related to the consumer, but rather to the monopoly that is currently guiding our farmers. Diversity is also generally thought to be the more rugged solution to food, whereas the monoculture products we get now need yearly tinkering at the DNA level.
So there you go. The issue will not go away, follow it at your news source.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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When farmers sign up to use Monsanto seeds, they also sign up to use roundup etc. as well, they have to use a certain amount. The yields they get are actually not hugely better:
Yield (wiki link above)
US maize yields were flat until the 1930s, when the adoption of conventional hybrid seeds caused them to increase by ~.8 bushels/acre (1937–1955). Thereafter a combination of improved genetics, fertilizer and pesticide availability and mechanization raised the rate of increase to 1.9 bushels per acre per year. In the years since the advent of GM maize, the rate increased slightly to 2.0.[407] Average US maize yields were 174.2 bushels per acre in 2014.[408]
Commercial GM crops have traits that reduce yield loss from insect pressure or weed interference.[409][410]
Yield (wiki link above)
US maize yields were flat until the 1930s, when the adoption of conventional hybrid seeds caused them to increase by ~.8 bushels/acre (1937–1955). Thereafter a combination of improved genetics, fertilizer and pesticide availability and mechanization raised the rate of increase to 1.9 bushels per acre per year. In the years since the advent of GM maize, the rate increased slightly to 2.0.[407] Average US maize yields were 174.2 bushels per acre in 2014.[408]
Commercial GM crops have traits that reduce yield loss from insect pressure or weed interference.[409][410]
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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You can feed the stuff to pigs and eat the pigs! Processed GMO corn!
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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When I stayed with my dad in Indiana we snuck into the neighbor's corn fields to take a few. It was the sweetest corn I've ever tasted.
Grilled corn, mayo and Tajin ain't bad either.
Grilled corn, mayo and Tajin ain't bad either.
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We grow plenty of mais here but it is mostly cattle feed and is not for human consumption.
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It's just corn.
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This fucking thread man. You guys bitch and moan about the US for everything! What's wrong with protecting farmers dickheads, other than it isn't protecting you and yours? We gotta have bailouts for everyone but farmers?
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Nationalise the land and charge farmers a tithe. You know it makes sense.
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You must be a professor.
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Mmmm grilled corn. I slather it in Mexican cheese dip, melted butter, crema, chopped garlic, salt, pepper, and chili powder, and grill it on high heat (basting with the cheese mixture) till it starts to blacken, then serve with more crema and lime slices. I prefer "cow corn" to sweet corn, though.
Corn on the cob, creamed corn, corn bread, polenta, grits, pap, samp, hominy, I loves it all.
Corn on the cob, creamed corn, corn bread, polenta, grits, pap, samp, hominy, I loves it all.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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