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No, Spike. Just more fear-mongering from the left. Why do you keep helping them get their message out?
"Report: 81% of GM Crops Approved Without Adequate Safety Studies." Do you know how many "heirloom" varieties were tested for "safety?"
ZERO!
In the last 100 years of American agriculture, numerous new varieties have been introduced every year. NONE of them were ever tested for "safety." They were tested for yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, insect resistance, resistance to lodging, nutrient content, tolerance of wet soil, etc. The same is true of GM crops.
Sort of the reverse of snake oil sales.
I hunt on a friends land that's a plant geneticist. They can design strawberry plants for almost any climate on the planet. Crops are designed now that are disease resistant so pesticides don't have to be used. Corn is a crop that has come a long ways. Back in the 50s and 60s corn had a shelf life for sweetness of a day or two. You also had to inspect every ear before you bought it for corn smut. Smut is a bluish growth that looked like a nasty tumor growing on the corn. Corn now is incredibly sweet compared to the old stuff. I use to have my wife get the water boiling before I would even pick the corn to ensure we had the sweetest corn as possible. The sugar in the corn would start turning to starch as soon as it was picked. Within a couple days it tasted like eating corn starch. Tomatos are design now that ripen all at the same time for commercial harvest. The list goes on and on. When I was in FFA in the 60s we were given irradiated seeds to grow and report on the plants progress. Some of the old seed stock do produce better tasting crops. The one that comes to mind are Kentucky Wonder string beans. IMO no other green bean comes close to the taste they have.
DL,
Get you some Golden Bantam corn seed. Good ole stuff
The unintentional killing of the bees will be what causes a huge problem.
Hammer's Link
HA/KS's Link
Don't help the leftists spread their anti-capitalist propaganda. Here you go Hammer:
A recently published review has, for the first time, summarized 15 years of research on the hazards of neonicotinoids to bees. The conclusion: While many laboratory studies described sublethal effects, no adverse effects to bee colonies were ever observed in field studies at field-realistic exposure conditions.
These findings are in line with many large-scale, multifactorial studies that were undertaken in the USA, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France and Germany. These have shown that poor bee health is correlated with the presence of the Varroa mite, viruses and many other factors, but not with the use of insecticides.
Henry,
I can attest to bee colonies being killed off right next door to me do the crops we plant and what we spray on them. When you see them dying in your garden it becomes obvious.
I am also friends with 2 bee keepers and one lives next door. Had I not watched them kick the bucket and see so many died in my garden I might buy it. Just my opinion.
Either way the bee problem is a problem and what ever is causing it if the "study" is correct needs to be found out. Bees are needed and they are dying by the truck loads
I lost two hives to what I suspected to be tracheal mites this past summer despite medicating and using oil extender patties. My third hive survived but I think that was by sheer luck since I medicated all three hives alike.
Fortunately, there's a wild hive in the woods behind the house and they seem to be flourishing since I saw an increasing number on the clover and herb flowers as summer progressed. They really went after the Thai and cinnamon basil flowers, and I'd be interested in getting a sample of that honey. :^)
Damn Spike a dozen? If they all had come in you would be swimming in them. lol