Non-GMO Hemlock: Safe, nutritious, delicious.
Posted on 08/11/2019 8:47:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Saw a bottle of honey that stated no GMO and organic.
Many years ago when this organic thing was just catching on, I knew a farmer that said he’s making good money selling grain as organically grown. I asked him just what that process involved, to grow his grain organically.
He simply said the process was to sign a document certifying it was organic. The grain he sold was no different than that sold to the local grain company.
With this organic craze now days more of a lefty thing, I don’t care if they get screwed or not.
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I will always remember the FR poster here who demanded that all food have a gmo label, after all what did the sticker cost? 10 for a penney.
“Organic” is a molecule that contains carbon.
Any other use is strictly artistic.
I prefer inorganic food.
An apple is genetically different from an orange.
Which one is safe to eat?
Very discriminating bees?
So maybe they are both save to eat. Just don't eat the seeds. Apple seeds are poisonous and I just read that orange seeds are edible
Non-GMO Hemlock: Safe, nutritious, delicious.
Almost all foods we consume are genetically modified. We have been genetically modifying plants and animals for millennia.
Almost all foods are organic—they contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which makes them organic by definition. I am not going to pay extra for food because the farmer used different pesticides, soil conditioners, etc., than conventional farmers.
One other item in the “natural food” craze is the attempt by the far left to ban eating meat in the name of the environment. Animals can eat vegetation that humans cannot. This means that they can eat parts of food crops that would otherwise be discarded. Forcing an all vegetarian (or vegan) diet on the population would not only make people more aggressive/less emotionally stable, it would increase land use for food production significantly. Increasing the acreage needed for food production does not strike me as very environmentally friendly.
In truth, organic products tend to have better nutritional profiles and to be less damaging to the environment. Yet facts matter and the specifics vary as to each product and crop, how they are grown, and as to each agricultural chemical and how they are used. Notably, the scientific research on the subject must be treated with caution because it is skewed in favor of agricultural chemicals due to a combination of sponsorship and suppression by Monsanto and other producers.
In the coming years, we are likely to see a trend in developed countries toward having organic produce grown indoors under artificial light, free of pesticides, pests, and plant diseases. Meanwhile, the use of robots and AI is likely to result in diminished use of pesticides and herbicides in field agriculture.
“We have been genetically modifying plants and animals for millennia.
Pretty sure we’ve been selectively breeding and not gene splicing...
The methods we have been using for thousands of years resulted in a far greater amount of gene splicing and other genetic modifications than the current targeted methods used in the lab. As an analogy, it is as if people in the past painted their houses by throwing containers of paint and hoping for a good result, but currently we have the tools to apply the paint exactly where we want it.
Genetic engineering involves using enzymes, extracted from living organisms, to manipulate DNA in ways that nature has been manipulating DNA for eons. The difference is that we apply intelligence to the process.
I was watching the second episode of “Smallville”. There was a scene where the Kents have a place at the farmers market. It appears they are mostly selling apples.
Clark puts up a sign. It reads, “Kent Organic Produce”. They never miss a chance to be PC.
I’m surprised that the FDA has not cracked down on the food brand Evol, even though people snark that they don’t want to eat anything “evol”.
The level of intelligence and data posts in this particular thread is at best laughable.
I will give one example as a start
Soybeans
When you grow the GMO version you can spray it with roundup and the plant does not die but weeds and other plants do. The Chemical goes into the ground where it does not disappear but interacts and becomes another there. So then you eat the soybeans that have this chemical on them as well as in them and I am supposed to believe that this is ok.
I noted recently that even distillers of Vodka are touting their product as GMO free as they know that when the crop is used to distill into a product residues will be present. If not why would they care, something is driving this need to tout no GMO.
There is much much more going on in this whole rodeo but as I noted many here choose to eat whatever they want and that is their right to do so. At least one said they prefer GMO foods, again, Choose, but do so wisely
Increasing yield while creating problems in the Human population that feeds another industry like Pharma is big business
Interesting, very interesting...
I had an interesting and eye-opening discussion with our local grocery store produce manager last week.
He told me that a shopper putting a SINGLE non-organic item into the organic inventory causes them to throw out the ENTIRE organic bin! A shopper picking up just one non-organic apple and putting it into the organic apples requires all the organic apples to be thrown away. They have to then also thoroughly clean the organic apple bin before replenishing it with new “uncontaminated” organic apples. He said this is a result of federal laws and regulations. He mentioned several other such practices leading to similar waste, but this one really stood out.
He said the waste this causes is just unbelievable.
It’s no wonder that “organic” foods cost so much more. There is no way we can feed the world with the low efficiency and productivity of “organic” ag practices.
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