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Quick poll how does everyone feel about GMOs? I have no problem with them myself I’ll buy them eat them what ever. But I prefer to grow and try out heirloom myself. I like the older and odder varieties. I want to keep them alive and save the seeds of the ones I like. So how do you feel about GMOs?

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I get all my seeds from either Baker Creek or Seeds of Change.
I only grow heirlooms. I do it not only for myself but because I've heard it's healthier for the bees. 🙂

I love Bakers Creek. Plus a trade seeds and cuttings with people

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My objection is not to the genetic modification itself - we have been doing that since the first farmers - but the stranglehold it gives the big companies over the seeds, the damage some of the modifications may do to the environment, and other side issues.

CeliaVL Level 7 June 22, 2018

@CrazyQuilter The stranglehold is not so much in the USA but in developing countries such as in Africa where there has been a huge amount of unregulated GM experimentation by the major companies, indigenous strains of seeds are in danger, and small farmers are in danger of being forced out by agribusiness..

@CrazyQuilter The issues around GMOs and agribusiness are complex and i don't think this is the forum to debate them, but these articles may be of interest: [counterpunch.org]: [ecowatch.com]...
There are plenty of arguments the other way, too, so I don't think the question is by any means settled.

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Well studied GMOs are not a threat to anyone.

wordywalt Level 9 June 22, 2018

What about RoundUp?

@Leafhead Roundup is not a GNO. It is a chemical compound.

@wordywalt
No, but it is used in conjunction with GMOS bred and genetically engineered to totally resist Roundup so that farmers can just broadcast that shit willy nilly.
I am not opposed to eating the GMO, but I do object to eating poison on my food

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Say NO to GMOs

Leafhead Level 8 June 22, 2018
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GMOS are our ruination. They allow farmers to broadcast poisons like Roundup which don't touch the GMO but kills everything around it. And then we eat it!
Say NO to GMOs

Leafhead Level 8 June 22, 2018
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I fear what happens when they escape into the world. Hybrids like africanized bees.

Mooolah Level 8 June 21, 2018
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Maybe it's because I studied genetics and microbiology for 3 years that I don't trust GMO's and I am NOT saying that there is anything dangerous about GMO's just that I don't trust them because I don't trust the Agribusiness players behind almost all of the GMO foods. The FDA used to be a check against abuses by industry but that hasn't been the case for at least a couple of decades now, most of the top people have direct ties to the big Agribusiness players so we really don't know what genes are being manipulated and what the knock on effects may be.
I grow with heirloom seeds even though many of the heritage seed banks have been bought up by the same corporations that are producing the GMO's, many of the seeds I plant I trade for and I replant from previous year's harvests as well. We are what we eat and until I can be sure I know what I am putting in my mouth I will minimize my intake of GMO's, the same goes for the meat we eat, I shop locally for the most part and I am pretty confident about the amount of steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics that are being used but I am fortunate and live in a rural area.

Surfpirate Level 9 June 21, 2018

Coming to a rural farming community near YOU!
GMOs, cancer, pollution and extinction events, all from use of GMOS and Roundup in our food.

@Leafhead Well they sure aren't doing the honey bees any favours, that's for sure. The bee keeper down the road lost all 6 of his hives last year, the farmer next door who switched to GMO corn two years ago says he had nothing to do with it. That was the only variable that obviously changed. The people certifying the safety of these new organisms are like the 3 stooges.

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I generally avoid them, don't trust them. I'm not going to die on that hill, but I will avoid them if possible.

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I have seen no actual evidence of danger. I have both heirloom and gmo plants. Some heirlooms are second generation. If I saw actual evidence that gmo crops were harmful, I would change the way I feed my family.

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