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To: truthfreedom

You have no idea what you are talking about. The GMO crops have revolutionized our food production beyond what could only be dreamt about just 20 or 30 years ago.

For example, it’s a pleasure to sit in a combine and watch top quality feedstuffs being harvested from clean fields, womething impossible just 2 decades ago.


17 posted on 02/01/2011 7:52:41 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Your joy at the look of the field does not concern me as a consumer. As a consumer, I want healthy foods, not foods containing bug poison built right in.

Perhaps you can tell me how much corn is in my 16oz bag of Fritos? How much the farmer gets, and why I’m paying $3.00.
I’m pretty sure than the farmer is getting less than $3.00 for a pound of corn. But you might know how much.

That wide, wide disparity between what the I pay and what the farmer gets makes me feel that a significant improvement in alfalfa yields is not worth hurting the environment, or putting the environment at risk.

Find other ways to get your yield. Mychorrizae. charcoal, duplicate Terra Preta soils. Figure it out. But current farming practices could use improvement.


41 posted on 02/01/2011 8:40:57 PM PST by truthfreedom
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