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[Puddin Fluff]

My main issue with GMO is modifying for pesticide tolerance. Also, long term effects need more study. The lawsuits on using own seeds that have been contaminated are backwards in my opinion. It's the farmer who's crop has been infected with modified stuff that shoild receive money, nit the other way around. I also think GMO should aways be mentioned on the label.

It should not be so hard to identify exactly what your are buying/eating by looking at the label. There are too many terms and sometimes indgredients that are not identified. I also think everything should be labeled by state/country where it is produced. I prefer to by local or US if at all possible. Sometimes it is not an option.

 

[tntchix]

Organic and non-gmo hasn't given us vegetables in the store cheaper than we can grow them if you count our labor. Or whole chicken on sale for .89 cents a pound, or loaves of bread for under a dollar (if you like the mushy white bread). Hybrids and GMO are helping feed the world.
At the same time I am anti-gmo. And have gotten away from hybrids in my garden which for the last few years has been organic. I want to be able to save my seeds and have them grow the same or better the next year, you can't do that with hybrids. Take Monsanto and their soybeans, there is virtually no non-hybrid non-gmo heritage soybean fields left in the US. Their GMO plants have bred with any adjacent fields and farmers that washed and saved their own seeds for generations now get sued and shut down if their seeds have any monsanto genetics in them, they must buy, are forced to buy all seeds from monsanto. I personally think GMO could be the downfall of our food supply. The same reason I'm raising our own chickens right now, heritage breeds. Genetic diversity and preserving heritage breeds of fruits vegetables and livestock has become very important to me.

I don't look forward to a world where there is only two breeds of chickens one for meat and one for eggs, one breed of cattle, one of pig, etc..And only one breed of each hybrid GMO plant . That scares me. I understand the appeal, it would be the 'smart' thing to do but as a human civilization we have been proven that sometimes the smarter, more efficient cheaper means to advance have not always turned out good results in the long run. Just my opinion.

Edited because my 'smart phone' thought I meant bread, not breed, Lol!

My main issue with GMO is modifying for pesticide tolerance. Also, long term effects need more study. The lawsuits on using own seeds that have been contaminated are backwards in my opinion. It's the farmer who's crop has been infected with modified stuff that shoild receive money, nit the other way around. I also think GMO should aways be mentioned on the label.

It should not be so hard to identify exactly what your are buying/eating by looking at the label. There are too many terms and sometimes ingredients that are not identified. I also think everything should be labeled by state/country where it is produced. I prefer to by local or US if at all possible. Sometimes it is not an option.

 

[dsqard]

I apologize for not getting on sooner. I had some sewing I was working on to keep my mind off DD and since she didn't have the baby until this morning (8:52 Eastern time) I pretty much finished a table runner and set of six place mats (well the place mats I only had to bind, the rest was done). But after like 36 hours in the hospital and only 12 minutes of pushing miss Olivia Ellen Elizabeth Strong finally arrived.




Now I have to wait THREE WHOLE WEEKS before I get to see her in person.

I am completely smitten with this little girl

 

[bamadude]

I apologize for not getting on sooner. I had some sewing I was working on to keep my mind off DD and since she didn't have the baby until this morning (8:52 Eastern time) I pretty much finished a table runner and set of six place mats (well the place mats I only had to bind, the rest was done). But after like 36 hours in the hospital and only 12 minutes of pushing miss Olivia Ellen Elizabeth Strong finally arrived. Now I have to wait THREE WHOLE WEEKS before I get to see her in person. I am completely smitten with this little girl e

Thanks for naming her after me. Excellent

 

[ronott1]

I apologize for not getting on sooner. I had some sewing I was working on to keep my mind off DD and since she didn't have the baby until this morning (8:52 Eastern time) I pretty much finished a table runner and set of six place mats (well the place mats I only had to bind, the rest was done). But after like 36 hours in the hospital and only 12 minutes of pushing miss Olivia Ellen Elizabeth Strong finally arrived.




Now I have to wait THREE WHOLE WEEKS before I get to see her in person.

I am completely smitten with this little girl

She is a cutey!

 

[bamadude]

I want to have a sensible, non heated discussion about GMO and our sensible group should be able to handle it

questions

Are you anti-GMO?

whether yes or no, why?

instead of genetically modifying crops to be insect resistant, what do you think we should do to decrease pesticide use/

This is way above my pay grade.

 

[bamadude]

Im still trying to figure out the game of cricket

 

[dsqard]

Dude your name is Olivia? That is odd for a so called male of the species

The funny thing about the name is my cousin just had a little girl almost two weeks ago and named her daughter Olivia. It must be coming back into fashion. I just adore the name and the nick name of Livvy.

 

[chickwhispers]

Chickens are confused with recent solar event..the end made me laugh out loud. Funny little critters..but, it was getting dark after all!

You tube has now taken it down for copyright. I never got to see it.

I'll take everyone else word it was cute.
No matter what link you use it's gone.

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pretty much both of what I think. But I also think "it's not nice to fool mother nature" Pay now or pay later. I think several EU countries ban GMO.

Quote: Beautiful @dsqard And she's named after me 'dude.

 

[perchie.girl]

another eclipse video where chickens are going to bed. posted by the same fellow

deb