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To: greeneyes

I use heirlooms and hybrids. Hybrids are more disease resistant and more productive but the taste of some heirloom tomatoes can’t be beat. I have grown GMOs on the farm fields, mostly corn and soybeans. It is aggravating that soybean seeds can’t be saved but, the GMOs have been outstanding in no till operations and saved millions of tons of topsoil. Absent that, if not for GMOs millions of people would starve. There is a downside to everything.


74 posted on 05/23/2015 4:31:33 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Yes, there is a downside to everything. I like my heirlooms and the few hybrids that I grow. I mostly try to stay out of the whole GMO debate. I don’t call them “FrankenFood” but I don’t need or want to grow them, as I am not a commercial farmer.

As long as GMO is not in my garden, I’m happy, and not looking to hinder any one else from GMOs if that is what they want. If saving seeds of heirlooms were to be outlawed I’d say that is not right, and I’d just have to be a lawbreaker. LOL


113 posted on 05/24/2015 7:44:13 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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