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In reply to the discussion: After Years in the Red, Farms Return to Non-GMO Crops to Regain Profits [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)16. I'm a scientific Luddite.
GMO may or may not be rotten, but the herbicide-resistant, the bee-and-butterfly-killing, the small-farmers-can't-trade-seeds, the does-not-play-well-with-others-and-is-represented-by-aggressive-lawyers, the designed-to-sell-more-patent-poisons... those GMO crops sure as hell are rotten.
Fucking Brawdo would be selling seeds that required Brawndo to thrive, but I'm guessing drinking Brawndo turned everyone into idiots before amoral Brawndo scientists and management could perfect their evil scheme. Nature bats last. 100,000 years from now our descendants may be one of the lesser apes. Fast food for wolves and eagles, silly apes who can't be trusted not to injure themselves with a pointy stick.
Plants do like toilet water, good soil, sunshine, poop, pee, and compost.
My wife and I rely on birds, spiders, predatory insects, and other beasties to control invertebrate pests in our garden and in our house.
If you use insecticides you'll end up with insecticide-resistant cockroaches, ants, fleas, and other nasty pests. The only pests we have occasional trouble with is ticks. Two of our dogs are not especially good at social grooming. They'll ignore dirt, stink, and grape sized ticks in places they can't reach. Lyme disease is not a big problem in our part of the world because tick nymphs spend time on lizards. Lizards have ancestral antibodies that kill Lyme disease.
Our Dingo is the only dog who thinks good grooming is important. However filthy Dingo gets she'll always be clean before bedtime. If she notices a tick in a place she can't reach she'll tell someone right away. Her pack mates would probably jump up onto the bed two minutes after chasing ducks across a sewage pond and rolling in bullshit to dry off, no complaints about fleas, ticks, or leaches. The worst dog we ever had would find a putrid dead animal to roll in, usually just before we went on a long car trip to visit our more rural parents. I think that was her way of preparing for the hunt.
We've had two pig hunting dogs but we didn't know that about them when we adopted them from the animal shelter.
Related in a similar way, Microsoft and Apple are what happens when you hand computer science over to big business, or banking over to the want-to-be-physicists and spread-sheet-obsessives.
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After Years in the Red, Farms Return to Non-GMO Crops to Regain Profits [View all]
GreatGazoo
Jul 2015
OP
It will trigger already passed laws in 2 other states (CT + Maine) and more are looking to join
GreatGazoo
Jul 2015
#4
The problem is, that premium paid for GM crops becomes smaller the more that farmers grow them
NickB79
Jul 2015
#7
If the inputs (seed and chems) are lower then cost of production could be lower than GMO
GreatGazoo
Jul 2015
#9