Yes
Yes charliep
The government does.
You do
Most do
For all the players who are slowly consolidating for control of crops, very clever, calculating professioanls I might add, all of them will argue with vigor, that modification is safe, that flax is safe. Wheat safe. Buckeheat safe.
Do farmers actually know how any seed has been modified? Or do we simply know what we are told?"
'It's safe' is a "today' answer for today's instant thinkers, and takes away the focus from the real issue... that the consolidation and control of agriculture is producing food we are not sure of, it may or may not be what it is purported to be.
farmers don't even know what is being modified, do we. We just accept the 'fact' presented as true.
Control can be good in some ways,...or can be a total disaster when bottom lines dictate ethical considerations such as food safety which has always been my concern.
Food...The building blocks of children.
It's up to farmers to question the prevalent consolidation movents, in my humble opinion, because government and corporations will not.
For example, the people who are pushing the green revolution for alternate power in Alberta are also looking towards flax fibe/feed as a source for power, aren't they. Guaranteed supply from all crops is necessary, is what I envisage.
Meantime, a perfectly well developed oil industry is being replaced by windmills etc.
Ridley's, who has been buying out every feed company that isn't in hiding, also looks to feed-flax for their feed additive business, They have partners. A little dab of this in a specifically modified grain and a little dab of that in another modified grain you seed, mix up the concoction and voila, that becomes a specialized feed. Seed growers will work with feed manufacturers.
It also holds irreversible dangers to which many planners will not want to discuss.
Heading towards domination in NA, is not necessarily a bad thing by Ridley's. So did Sears at one time, and Walmart today.
But if there is a proliferation of gene stacking, (which lies in the future if you have have ever followed through from a to be to c,) the fallout, as was shown in the Triffid experiment, is not fixable. It's permanant.
Nature is hard to turn off. Your food is not a whim. Your body is a well designed motor that will only process those specific foods it has slowly adapted itself to recognize and process and utilize.
Alberta is researching proteins, I believe, charliep, and it is an absolutely amazing field. Just studying proteins. Your body utilizes more than proteins, though, and they in time will be studied.
Researching is costly for society, and is not particularly profitable for scientists.
My observation is that today, too many scientists and governments are more impressed by the lure of profit as opposed to dedicating themselves for high income pay, to the overwhelming awe of knowledge.
So my personal answer, charliep, and I realize it has absolutely zero value in the scheme of things, is that down the road in a few years, farmers will look back to this point in time and say, 'They didn't tell us what they had done to the seed we planted. If I known...."
Farmers are the last line of defense for food. You'll call me silly..... until you get sick, Pars
Yes charliep
The government does.
You do
Most do
For all the players who are slowly consolidating for control of crops, very clever, calculating professioanls I might add, all of them will argue with vigor, that modification is safe, that flax is safe. Wheat safe. Buckeheat safe.
Do farmers actually know how any seed has been modified? Or do we simply know what we are told?"
'It's safe' is a "today' answer for today's instant thinkers, and takes away the focus from the real issue... that the consolidation and control of agriculture is producing food we are not sure of, it may or may not be what it is purported to be.
farmers don't even know what is being modified, do we. We just accept the 'fact' presented as true.
Control can be good in some ways,...or can be a total disaster when bottom lines dictate ethical considerations such as food safety which has always been my concern.
Food...The building blocks of children.
It's up to farmers to question the prevalent consolidation movents, in my humble opinion, because government and corporations will not.
For example, the people who are pushing the green revolution for alternate power in Alberta are also looking towards flax fibe/feed as a source for power, aren't they. Guaranteed supply from all crops is necessary, is what I envisage.
Meantime, a perfectly well developed oil industry is being replaced by windmills etc.
Ridley's, who has been buying out every feed company that isn't in hiding, also looks to feed-flax for their feed additive business, They have partners. A little dab of this in a specifically modified grain and a little dab of that in another modified grain you seed, mix up the concoction and voila, that becomes a specialized feed. Seed growers will work with feed manufacturers.
It also holds irreversible dangers to which many planners will not want to discuss.
Heading towards domination in NA, is not necessarily a bad thing by Ridley's. So did Sears at one time, and Walmart today.
But if there is a proliferation of gene stacking, (which lies in the future if you have have ever followed through from a to be to c,) the fallout, as was shown in the Triffid experiment, is not fixable. It's permanant.
Nature is hard to turn off. Your food is not a whim. Your body is a well designed motor that will only process those specific foods it has slowly adapted itself to recognize and process and utilize.
Alberta is researching proteins, I believe, charliep, and it is an absolutely amazing field. Just studying proteins. Your body utilizes more than proteins, though, and they in time will be studied.
Researching is costly for society, and is not particularly profitable for scientists.
My observation is that today, too many scientists and governments are more impressed by the lure of profit as opposed to dedicating themselves for high income pay, to the overwhelming awe of knowledge.
So my personal answer, charliep, and I realize it has absolutely zero value in the scheme of things, is that down the road in a few years, farmers will look back to this point in time and say, 'They didn't tell us what they had done to the seed we planted. If I known...."
Farmers are the last line of defense for food. You'll call me silly..... until you get sick, Pars
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