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To: LomanBill

Hey no prob! But just don’t throw your wooden shoes into the gears, FRiend! The cogs are stronger.

And my garden is handy, too. But if wheat and soybeans fail universally through the heartland then it don’t matter what you will have once had in your garden, as none of us will be around to eat it.


149 posted on 10/01/2008 4:45:18 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
[if wheat and soybeans fail universally through the heartland]
 
That "IF" is much more likely today because of the lack of variation among commercial seed stocks.
 
Genetic engineers are now in a race to stay ahead of pathogens that threaten entire crops. 
 
Of course, if they hadn't engineered the natural variation out of the seed stock in the first place, then we wouldn't be so exposed... but then what's the profit in that?
 
Tyranny of the Appetite.

156 posted on 10/01/2008 4:59:55 PM PDT by LomanBill (A bird flies because the right wing opposes the left.)
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