Hospitals

[checking]

It appears that our triffid patient is getting sicker in the very institution that is noted for cures.

Dave Sifton, a director nof the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission, said there is one part of the supply chain where more Triffid is showing up.

The University of Saskatchewan's Crop Development Centre has discovered that contamination of its breeder seed is wider spread than originally thought.

[bucket]

And yet, they can't assign responsibility for this mess?

Completely screwed the flax market and no one is held responsible except for farmers, who, by their purchased blue tags, thought/were guaranteed to be seeding pure seed. Nice, really nice.

And the government keeps giving these clowns money to correct the problem that they caused.

And for all the seed growers and experts that want to say these organizations did a good job, think again, you become part of the problem by defending their incompetence.

[wmoebis]

Couldn't this be avoided if it was made so that all GM seeds could NOT look like seeds of non GM grain.

Say GM flax would have to be pink or square. Then we would know what we are seeding and eating. We should be proud of what we are growing and want it to stand out maybe even ask a premium for it.

Or are we trying to hide something?

[wd9]

If seeds with innovations in them didn't grow protecting the rights of the holder and the environment and the market and parsely, we wouldn't have this problem at all.

[ColevilleH2S]

wD9 do you mean the dreaded (read in an ominous voice)"Terminator technology?"

I don't think it would have helped in flax anyways, because I think it only works in F1 hybrid seeds.

[BTOfarmall]

Ruined da Flax Market????

$15.75 Per Bushel here in da pit Today. We got da flax. Dey wanna complain about GMO, den let dem go Hungry. That Simple, will find another buyer fer da Flax.........

[bucket]

Bto

This is the lowest flax production year in over 2 decades, and the adjusted price should easily be pushing 22 bucks.

What will be more interesting though is the EU trying to replace canadian supplies with their own. They probably got the seed from us.

[parsley]

wd logic:

U of S foundation seed would be pure if Parsley was silent.

Thought that is missing code becomes jumbled. Fascinating process.

[BTOfarmall]

Dey wanna buy from da US do dey??? Simple to fix that...

Contaminate a Shipment of dares wit Triffid, gist like dey did to us wit BSE. Low & Behold da first Cow Guy to have BSE in Canada was a Dumb Yankee......

Two kin Play dis Game.........

[wd9]

Cole, no there are several methods to prevent germination of progeny and not for hybrids alone.

Parsely, if it didn't grow, you would not get AP in your organic crop. Problem solved.

The class is called Genetic Use Restriction Technology or GURTs for short.

[bucket]

bto

I don't write like you, I meant they got the seed from us, Canada. The seed is probably infected over there as well. And there has been cases of triffid grown in the ukraine.

[parsley]

"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo": a best selling murder mystery that also called my name for the past few days so I didn't reply to the other thread but I will, you lucky boy. lol. Here's a quote to wet/whet your fire:

"But there was a pattern, or at least a hint of a pattern. A labyrinth of enterprises owned by each other. Wennerstrom's empire was variously valued at between 100 and 400 billion kronar, depending upon whom you asked and how it was calulated. But if companies owned each others assets-what then would be their value?"

But I digressed, or perhaps not. lol

So, a test plot cannot be kept pure without technology? Pars

[BTOfarmall]

I see's where I missred. Must be that Kool-Aid Tom mixed me up...

Contaminate it all den, Make Everyone Happy....

[parsley]

Bettr solution:

Make all gm flourescent! mutagenisis uses radiation, and gm'ers say it's safe,safe, so flourescent GM crops could adapt their own specific properties, exciting colors. too! Red for corn and yellow for canola and blue for Triffid...how exciting.

And safe.

Feed bad tempered picky two year olds flourescent orange potatoes in the middle of the night!

And air travel across the prairies could be a tourist attraction.

Isn't this "innovation?" pars

[wd9]

No parsely, it isn't.

Triffid is in 35 countries. Its everywhere and if can i be so bold to say the cause was CDC? If its in every new variety made, seems like some negligence there. Now the organic industry knows who to sue.

I too have read the trilogy. Saw all three movies and are on the net. Awesome.