Friday, the USDA quietly announced deregulation of Monsanto’s GMO sugarbeets

Red, Green, & Blue ^ | February 6, 2011 | Jeremy Bloom

[MsLady]

Buy heirloom seed. And don't plant any hybrids close by, they cross pollinate.

Makes me wonder if it's the lack of heirloom plants that are killing off the bee population. We've lost about 1/3 of our bees in this nation and from my understanding they haven't figured out why they are dying off.

[Free Vulcan]

There are quite a few that sell non-hybrid, non-GMO seed. The only issue you may have is on wind blown crops that GMO pollen tends to drift and cross.

Click on my handle and go to my about page, I’ve got a list of ones I use. I like Fedco, Jung, Gourmet, Landreth, and Baker Creek especially.

[Terry Mross]

Chemicals kill a lot of bees. Back in the 80’s the Arkansas government would re-imburse bee farmers for bees lost due to agri chemicals. Don’t know if that’s still happening.

Bottom line is we’re messing with nature and that ain’t good.

[EternalVigilance]

Great list. Thanks. Sharing.

[MsLady]

No it’s not. I think God knew what He was doing when He created everything. Man thinks he can fix it or make it better, arrogant stupidity.

[RoseyT]

I’ve ordered from Baker Creek and was happy with their service. I’ve also used www.seedsavers.org.

[texas_mrs]

Ping

[Oldpuppymax]

I wonder how much this cost Monsanto in terms of Hussein campaign contributions??!!

[Tunehead54]

Are all GM seeds sterile and if so are they engineered that way?

[Tunehead54]

Are all GM seeds sterile and if so are they engineered that way?

[jdub]

There is a difference between genetically modified foods and those that are selectively bred. As I understand it, those carrots were bred by taking ones that naturally had maroon colors in them and mating them with similar ones. As an Aggie, I was given a mess of them, and they were quite good. they were higher in beta carotine than regular carrots too.

[The Comedian]

Monsanto ping.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[Mase]

Rather than seeing this effect as an opportunity to reduce U.S. sweetener consumption, the USDA evidently saw it as a crisis that needed to be addressed by defying the court order.

Does this person really believe that behavior can be dictated or legislated? How would this reduce U.S. sweetener consumption? Idiots. If they were really concerned about high sweetener costs, they'd be demanding that the fedgov eliminate all the price supports that keep the price of sugar here in the US much higher than the world price.

[Mr. Lucky]

No.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Between 2005, when the USDA first greenlighted GM beets, and 2010, Monsanto had essentially driven all competition out of the market.

Because they held the farmers hostage and forced them to buy GM beets?

Wait, you mean farmers voluntarily bought a superior product? That's just awful. The government needs to get involved. LOL!

[GBA]

We've lost about 1/3 of our bees in this nation and from my understanding they haven't figured out why they are dying off.

Here's some recent news about the bees' disease:

In a paper published on the PLoS ONE website on Wednesday, Oct. 6 (Bromenshenk et al), the mysterious cause of Colony Collapse Disease was revealed: a one-two, pathogenic punch from a virus and two species of fungus. But just which throws the primary hit, and which adds the opportunistic “knock out” punch, remains unclear.

[MsLady]

Thank you for the info. Where I live I hardly ever see any honey bees. Two summers ago was the first time I remember seeing any here, I’ve lived here 11 years now. I was a few. Last summer I didn’t see any.

[GBA]

You’re welcome. It’s the same in my yard. I didn’t see more than a handful last summer and it’s also much harder to find local honey now. Not good.

[MsLady]

No it’s not good. We do have some people locally that raise bees, 2 locals that I know of. Which is good. The one couple have expanded their business over the past couple of years. I hope they continue to do so.