Tag: GMO seeds
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GMO OMG!
Film maker and director Jeremy Siefert (see wiki article Dive! – film about dumpster diving and food waste) has put together a new documentary called “GMO OMG” – sponsored by a variety of organic food companies. I am posting a web exclusive interview with Siefert conducted by Doctor Mehmet Oz, followed by the official movie…
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Fighting the Behemoth
I found this recent op-ed published on the website Nation of Change. Written by Jim Hightower, it succinctly draws the battle lines between Monsanto, the biotech-mastermind behind GMOs in our food, and the consumer activists who are trying to get labeling laws passed, and even Monsanto’s best customers – farmers. Toward the end, the piece…
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Heirlooms, Hybrids and GMOs, Oh My!
As Spring approaches, many of us start thinking about what we might want to grow in the coming months, what seeds we may want to get a head start on – you know, the ones we plant indoors near that sunny south facing window – the ones we nurture and love from the very beginning.…
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To patent life or not patent life. That is the question.
The more I absorb the multitude of articles available on the topic of genetic engineering and how it applies to mass food production, the more I realize that at the base of all of the hullabaloo is one fundamental entity – as humble as it is life producing. I am speaking of the seed. The…
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Genetically engineered vs. hybrid seeds
When I first began to learn about the existence of GMOs, and that I’d been eating them, unbeknownst, since the mid-1990s, I thought that the technology was in the same ballpark as hybridizing plants. I have since learned that they are not the same thing – at all. Vicki Mattern of Mother Earth News writes:…