Homegrown Revolution - Radical Change Taking Root (Martfuncher)

I love it very cool! Amazing what we can do if we just put our minds to it.

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I don't really get the whole GMO backlash. To me it's similar to the reaction of the Luddites: irrational fear of technological advances.

I'm too much of a libertarian, I guess, and used to looking at individual changes and not being a global bigot. Yes, there are dangers and yes, there are advantages, and yes, change is scary, but let's not panic.

It seems obvious that some changes can be good and some bad, and that we should sort them out. Tomatoes, for example are a mild poison. They are a universal coagulant and make your blood thicker. What if you could change that quality so that their good qualities were safer to use? Of course, it's possible that they poison the cancer cells and that's how they work.

The genetic properties of food and animals are a continuous experiment, anyway, whether we participate actively or not. Besides, just because it's old and has been eaten for generations, doesn't mean it's good for you or safe. All food had to do in the past is keep one alive long enough to reproduce oneself.

I agree things should be labeled and I see an opportunity for a UL or AAA type of organization to certify safety and properties of food. I believe consumers should know what they're getting and exercise the power of the dollar.

I also believe that if any "experiment" gets loose and causes damage, the injured parties have a right to hold the responsible parties accountable, without the government sheilding them.

I'm still annoyed that so many small organic farmers were ruined by the government stepping in and defining "organically grown" as food which has a government certificate.

IMissLiberty

Dr. Paul cured my apathy

I have veggies getting ripe from his/her encouragement

My great-grandparents on both sides lived off the land. Some were homesteaders and dairy farmers in South Dakota and others were farmers in Texas.

As a toddler in 1957 there are many photos of me in the garden, and we had them all through my childhood.

I'm in Southern California, now, and I had my landscaper plant as many edible plants as possible. The rosemary and sage do quite well, and I have oranges and lemons, but the plums and the regular vegetables suffer from weather that is too mild where I live. The plums don't get cold enough and the vegetables don't like the June gloom; I'm too close to the ocean.

I can't bring myself to buy strawberries from the local farmers' market, because even though picked the day before about 30 miles away, they aren't ripe. Ripe strawberries are red with no white, and sweeeeet. But you can't ship them as they are minutes away from decay; they have no shelf life. You don't know what you're missing if you don't grow your own.

IMissLiberty

Now THOSE fruits and vegetables WILL taste delicious I'll bet.