Agent Orange

[idalivered]

My seed dealer said that rr sweet corn is now available with some insect traits. Many have always wanted this to make growing the family plot much easier. Now that it is available, I'm not sure I want to ingest their stuff.

[toughguy189]

I certainly don't want to

[k-289]

What do you do with the rest of the garden species---or will we have to get our tomato plants from monstanto also---maybe gmo carrots---ask the potato growers about their contracts of gmo spuds--- golden arches said   "nota"---

[toughguy189]

Exactly, I prefer the heirloom variety garden species, I don't want to eat gmo.  The rest of the world doesn't want to either, we can't ship gmo to Japan or Europe, the people there have said NO!   Most countries have laws that gmo food must be labeled for consumer protection.  The US seems to be the only country that seems not to care about what they eat or if the gmo does have side effects.  I think as farmers we readily went along with it because it made it easier for us to manage more acres.  

[Steakmaker]

I think you're right about 2,4,D vs. 2,4,5,T.

If I remember correctly (someone correct me if I'm wrong). 2,4 dichlorophenoxy acetic acid has two chlorines on the pheynol ring part of the chemical and 2,4,5, trichlorophenoxy acetic acid has three chlorines. They're similar but I don't think agent orange is 50% 2,4,D.

I must have gotten that wrong on a test or something, not sure why I remember that from 30 years ago.