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Okay--so that makes sense to me. Available nitrogen determines protein levels and amino acid levels. Likewise amounts of vitamins and minerals are going to be somewhat determined by the soil levels and nutrition provided. Therefore I find it VERY hard to believe that corn that yields 10 times as much per acre is going to be as nutritious as corn that yields much less.
Regarding GM corn--just saw an ad for ROUNDUP READY corn. This is what we are talking about folks--corn that has been modified so you can soak the whole field in roundup (glyphosate to be exact) and not kill the corn, supposedly just the weeds. By soaking, I mean aerial spraying. This is the future of our food crops. So they've fed these crops to animals for a few years and haven't seen bad effects, so now you and I get to taste it. I'm not thrilled about eating food that has been raised this way.....
1) Today's corn crop is being fed much better than the open pollinated fields were so the actual end product is much better. (Actual yield differences are 1-5X more for hybrid seed vs open pollinated)Plus open pollinated corn were more prone to molds, diseases, etc so the over-all quality was not good. Check history and see famines.
2) While I understand not liking chemicals being sprayed on feed crops, how do you control the weeds? With weeds, no crop, world can not afford farmers to use petroleum products to run machinery to physically take out weeks (even that is at best marginally effective). Glysophate is so much safer than chemicals previously used--it's not even close.
3) Little known fact is that farmers are the healthiest group of workers but lead the world in cancer rate. Why, think chemicals they use to use. Since glysophate is so much safer, think we haven't turned on to it? No one wants to die of hunger and farmers don't want to die of cancer.
Okay--so that makes sense to me. Available nitrogen determines protein levels and amino acid levels. Likewise amounts of vitamins and minerals are going to be somewhat determined by the soil levels and nutrition provided. Therefore I find it VERY hard to believe that corn that yields 10 times as much per acre is going to be as nutritious as corn that yields much less.
Regarding GM corn--just saw an ad for ROUNDUP READY corn. This is what we are talking about folks--corn that has been modified so you can soak the whole field in roundup (glyphosate to be exact) and not kill the corn, supposedly just the weeds. By soaking, I mean aerial spraying. This is the future of our food crops. So they've fed these crops to animals for a few years and haven't seen bad effects, so now you and I get to taste it. I'm not thrilled about eating food that has been raised this way.....
1) Today's corn crop is being fed much better than the open pollinated fields were so the actual end product is much better. (Actual yield differences are 1-5X more for hybrid seed vs open pollinated)Plus open pollinated corn were more prone to molds, diseases, etc so the over-all quality was not good. Check history and see famines.
2) While I understand not liking chemicals being sprayed on feed crops, how do you control the weeds? With weeds, no crop, world can not afford farmers to use petroleum products to run machinery to physically take out weeks (even that is at best marginally effective). Glysophate is so much safer than chemicals previously used--it's not even close.
3) Little known fact is that farmers are the healthiest group of workers but lead the world in cancer rate. Why, think chemicals they use to use. Since glysophate is so much safer, think we haven't turned on to it? No one wants to die of hunger and farmers don't want to die of cancer.
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