GMO BT Corns self produced poison and Monsanto secret Corn!
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Monsanto and the EPA swore that the genetically engineered corn would only harm insects. The Bt-toxin produced inside the plant would be completely destroyed in the human digestive system and would not have any impact at all on consumers, they claimed. Alas, they’ve been proven wrong on that account as well, because not only is Bt corn producing resistant “super-pests,” researchers have also found that the Bt-toxin can indeed wreak havoc on human health.
Bt-Toxin Now Found in Many People’s Blood!
Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of:
• 93 percent of pregnant women tested
• 80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies, and
• 67 percent of non-pregnant women
The study authors speculate that the Bt toxin was likely consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class—which makes sense when you consider that genetically engineered corn is present in the vast majority of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup. They also suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt corn, which most livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFO, or so-called “factory farms”) are.
These shocking results raise the frightening possibility that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of “living pesticide factory”… essentially manufacturing Bt-toxin from within your digestive system on a continuing basis.
If this hypothesis is correct, is it then also possible that the Bt-toxin might damage the integrity of your digestive tract in the same way it damages insects? Remember, the toxin actually ruptures the stomach of insects, causing them to die. The biotech industry has insisted that the Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals (which would include humans). But again, there are peer-reviewed published research showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.
Bt-Toxin Linked to Allergies, Auto-Immune Disease, and More
If Bt genes are indeed capable of colonizing the bacteria living in the human digestive tract, scientists believe it could reasonably result in:
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Autoimmune diseases
• Food allergies
• Childhood learning disorders
I liked this story but how they go from the jump from toxin being in the blood to the genes that produced the toxin in the corn entering the humans genome? A virus or something?
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Second Generation Growth accelerating Corn pulled quietly.
info from above image link:
OMG, whats this I read while looking for images to include:
For the first time, a GM multinational has pulled two GM corn varieties from the regulatory and assessment process at the eleventh hour (1), after planning for a future income of several billion dollars per year from global sales (2). Monsanto has abandoned its ambitious plans for a so-called “second generation GM crop” rather than accede to a request from European regulators for additional research and safety data (3).
Under conditions of great secrecy, Monsanto has informed EFSA that it no longer wishes to pursue its application for approval of GM maize LY038 and the stacked variety LY038 x MON810. Both of these varieties were designed to accelerate the growth rate of animals. Two letters were sent to EFSA from the Monsanto subsidiary company Renessen at the end of April this year confirming the withdrawal of its applications originally submitted in 2005 and 2006. The letters cite “decreased commercial value worldwide” and state that the high-lysene varieties “will no longer be a part of the Renessen business strategy in the near future.” (4) There has been no announcement of these decisions on the Monsanto web site, and there are no mentions on EFSA or European Commission web sites either. In other words, there is a conspiracy of silence involving both the applicants and the regulators.
So the sneaky buggers were trying to make GMO Corn that also accelerates animal growth!!!!
OMG, why don't we the people hear about this? So I assume the Corn was to produce growth hormone or something like that, not transfer aging genes obviously, atleast I assume so.
So they can make Corn that makes pesticide and growth hormone? What next!!! Corn that produces
docility and subservient masses? And monsanto tryed to keep it quiet.
This is scary shit, who knew about this? thanks Zen Haven.dk
http://zen-haven.dk/eating-this-could-t ... e-factory/
Below information from above link:
Monsanto and the EPA swore that the genetically engineered corn would only harm insects. The Bt-toxin produced inside the plant would be completely destroyed in the human digestive system and would not have any impact at all on consumers, they claimed. Alas, they’ve been proven wrong on that account as well, because not only is Bt corn producing resistant “super-pests,” researchers have also found that the Bt-toxin can indeed wreak havoc on human health.
Bt-Toxin Now Found in Many People’s Blood!
Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of:
• 93 percent of pregnant women tested
• 80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies, and
• 67 percent of non-pregnant women
The study authors speculate that the Bt toxin was likely consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class—which makes sense when you consider that genetically engineered corn is present in the vast majority of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup. They also suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt corn, which most livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFO, or so-called “factory farms”) are.
These shocking results raise the frightening possibility that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of “living pesticide factory”… essentially manufacturing Bt-toxin from within your digestive system on a continuing basis.
If this hypothesis is correct, is it then also possible that the Bt-toxin might damage the integrity of your digestive tract in the same way it damages insects? Remember, the toxin actually ruptures the stomach of insects, causing them to die. The biotech industry has insisted that the Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals (which would include humans). But again, there are peer-reviewed published research showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.
Bt-Toxin Linked to Allergies, Auto-Immune Disease, and More
If Bt genes are indeed capable of colonizing the bacteria living in the human digestive tract, scientists believe it could reasonably result in:
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Autoimmune diseases
• Food allergies
• Childhood learning disorders
I liked this story but how they go from the jump from toxin being in the blood to the genes that produced the toxin in the corn entering the humans genome? A virus or something?
image from http://climatevoices.files.wordpress.com

image from http://www.permaculture.org.au/images/g ... ghouls.jpg

Second Generation Growth accelerating Corn pulled quietly.
info from above image link:
OMG, whats this I read while looking for images to include:
For the first time, a GM multinational has pulled two GM corn varieties from the regulatory and assessment process at the eleventh hour (1), after planning for a future income of several billion dollars per year from global sales (2). Monsanto has abandoned its ambitious plans for a so-called “second generation GM crop” rather than accede to a request from European regulators for additional research and safety data (3).
Under conditions of great secrecy, Monsanto has informed EFSA that it no longer wishes to pursue its application for approval of GM maize LY038 and the stacked variety LY038 x MON810. Both of these varieties were designed to accelerate the growth rate of animals. Two letters were sent to EFSA from the Monsanto subsidiary company Renessen at the end of April this year confirming the withdrawal of its applications originally submitted in 2005 and 2006. The letters cite “decreased commercial value worldwide” and state that the high-lysene varieties “will no longer be a part of the Renessen business strategy in the near future.” (4) There has been no announcement of these decisions on the Monsanto web site, and there are no mentions on EFSA or European Commission web sites either. In other words, there is a conspiracy of silence involving both the applicants and the regulators.
So the sneaky buggers were trying to make GMO Corn that also accelerates animal growth!!!!
OMG, why don't we the people hear about this? So I assume the Corn was to produce growth hormone or something like that, not transfer aging genes obviously, atleast I assume so.
So they can make Corn that makes pesticide and growth hormone? What next!!! Corn that produces
docility and subservient masses? And monsanto tryed to keep it quiet.
This is scary shit, who knew about this? thanks Zen Haven.dk
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It only gets worse I suppose. I just found this link on rense and found it quite disturbing.
If it were not for diligent farmers we would all be eating this.
And they don't even care even when there findings say this causes serious health problems they would still
rather put it on the market and make billions.
There's many examples as we know of drug companies releasing aids tainted drugs for some reason and selling them even though it was known that they were tainted.
Below information from:
http://naturalsociety.com/syngenta-char ... z1xtLzgiuE
In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock. What’s more is not only did the company deny this fact, but they did so in a civil court case that ended back in 2007. The charges were finally issued after a long legal struggle against the mega corp initiated by a German farmer named Gottfried Gloeckner whose dairy cattle died after eating the Bt toxin and coming down with a ‘mysterious’ illness.
Grown on his own farm from 1997 to 2002, the cows on the farm were all being fed exclusively on Syngenta’s Bt 176 corn by the year 2000. It was around this time that the mysterious illnesses began to emerge among the cattle population. Syngenta paid Gloeckner 40,000 euros in an effort to silence the farmer, however a civil lawsuit was brought upon the company. Amazingly, 2 cows ate genetically modified maize (now banned in Poland over serious concerns) and died. During the civil lawsuit, however, Syngenta refused to admit that its GM corn was responsible. In fact, they went as far as to claim having no knowledge whatsoever of harm.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/syngenta-char ... z1y05PzzsN
The case was dismissed and Gloeckner, the farmer who launched the suit, was left thousands of euros in debt. And that’s not all; Gloeckner continued to lose many cows as a result of Syngenta’s modified Bt corn. After halting the use of GM feed in 2002, Gloeckner attempted a full investigation with the Robert Koch Institute and Syngenta involved. The data of this investigation is still unavailable to the public, and only examined one cow. In 2009, however, the Gloeckner teamed up with a German action group known as Bündnis Aktion Gen-Klage and to ultimately bring Syngenta to the criminal court.
Using the testimony of another farmer whose cows died after eating Syngenta product, Gloeckner and the team have charged the biotech giant for the death of over 65 cows, withholding knowledge of the death-link, and holding the corporation liable for not registering the cattle deaths. The team is even charging Hans-Theo Jahmann, the German head of Syngenta , personally over the withholding of knowledge.
The charges bring to light just how far large biotechnology companies will go to conceal evidence linking their genetically modified products to serious harm. Monsanto, for example, has even threatened to sue the entire state of Vermont if they attempt to label its genetically modified ingredients. Why are they so afraid of the consumer knowing what they are putting in their mouths?
The above article is great news for the consumer. These modified corn serve us no purpose only to make a few very rich.
If it were not for diligent farmers we would all be eating this.
And they don't even care even when there findings say this causes serious health problems they would still
rather put it on the market and make billions.
There's many examples as we know of drug companies releasing aids tainted drugs for some reason and selling them even though it was known that they were tainted.
Below information from:
http://naturalsociety.com/syngenta-char ... z1xtLzgiuE
In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock. What’s more is not only did the company deny this fact, but they did so in a civil court case that ended back in 2007. The charges were finally issued after a long legal struggle against the mega corp initiated by a German farmer named Gottfried Gloeckner whose dairy cattle died after eating the Bt toxin and coming down with a ‘mysterious’ illness.
Grown on his own farm from 1997 to 2002, the cows on the farm were all being fed exclusively on Syngenta’s Bt 176 corn by the year 2000. It was around this time that the mysterious illnesses began to emerge among the cattle population. Syngenta paid Gloeckner 40,000 euros in an effort to silence the farmer, however a civil lawsuit was brought upon the company. Amazingly, 2 cows ate genetically modified maize (now banned in Poland over serious concerns) and died. During the civil lawsuit, however, Syngenta refused to admit that its GM corn was responsible. In fact, they went as far as to claim having no knowledge whatsoever of harm.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/syngenta-char ... z1y05PzzsN
The case was dismissed and Gloeckner, the farmer who launched the suit, was left thousands of euros in debt. And that’s not all; Gloeckner continued to lose many cows as a result of Syngenta’s modified Bt corn. After halting the use of GM feed in 2002, Gloeckner attempted a full investigation with the Robert Koch Institute and Syngenta involved. The data of this investigation is still unavailable to the public, and only examined one cow. In 2009, however, the Gloeckner teamed up with a German action group known as Bündnis Aktion Gen-Klage and to ultimately bring Syngenta to the criminal court.
Using the testimony of another farmer whose cows died after eating Syngenta product, Gloeckner and the team have charged the biotech giant for the death of over 65 cows, withholding knowledge of the death-link, and holding the corporation liable for not registering the cattle deaths. The team is even charging Hans-Theo Jahmann, the German head of Syngenta , personally over the withholding of knowledge.
The charges bring to light just how far large biotechnology companies will go to conceal evidence linking their genetically modified products to serious harm. Monsanto, for example, has even threatened to sue the entire state of Vermont if they attempt to label its genetically modified ingredients. Why are they so afraid of the consumer knowing what they are putting in their mouths?
The above article is great news for the consumer. These modified corn serve us no purpose only to make a few very rich.
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Thx, it's too bad it's all from the same site really. No wonder they say the are the most content plagiarized in the world.
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Opalserpent wrote:These shocking results raise the frightening possibility that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of “living pesticide factory”… essentially manufacturing Bt-toxin from within your digestive system on a continuing basis.
If this hypothesis is correct, is it then also possible that the Bt-toxin might damage the integrity of your digestive tract in the same way it damages insects? Remember, the toxin actually ruptures the stomach of insects, causing them to die. The biotech industry has insisted that the Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals (which would include humans). But again, there are peer-reviewed published research showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.
Bt-Toxin Linked to Allergies, Auto-Immune Disease, and More
If Bt genes are indeed capable of colonizing the bacteria living in the human digestive tract, scientists believe it could reasonably result in:
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Autoimmune diseases
• Food allergies
• Childhood learning disorders
This is the scariest part to me. Because if we are sick. We ingest something that is almost impossible to heal from? Can you heal after ingesting this stuff? Are we talking about corn chips of any manufacturer? and also all corn in every single product we see on the store shelves...
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Surprise Surprise
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So GMO makes you get tumors, who would have guessed?
The French government has asked the country's health watchdog to carry out a probe, possibly leading to EU intervention, after a study said genetically modified corn caused cancer in rats.
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So GMO makes you get tumors, who would have guessed?
The French government has asked the country's health watchdog to carry out a probe, possibly leading to EU intervention, after a study said genetically modified corn caused cancer in rats.
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God Dammit, looks like allot of food now is contaminated whether we like it or not.
I'm starting to think that non gmo food in the future is going to be worth more then gold.
Thanks monsanto and bill gates, your plans for population reduction are in full swing.
http://www.gmcontaminationregister.org/ ... nt=default
Info from above website:
GM Contamination Register
This GM contamination register is the first of its kind in the world.
Genetically modified crops were first commercially grown on a wide scale in 1996. But, there has always been concern about their effects on both health and the environment. A specific concern has been that once released, it would not be possible to contain or control these organisms yet there is no global monitoring system.
Because of this failure of national and international agencies, GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International launched this joint initiative in 2005 to record all incidents of contamination arising from the intentional or accidental release of genetically modified (GM) organisms (which are also known as genetically engineered (GE) organisms).
It also includes illegal plantings of GM crops and the negative agricultural side-effects that have been reported. Only those incidents which have been publically documented are recorded here. There may be others that are, as yet, undetected.
This site is intended to be a resource for individuals, public interest groups and governments. The register can be searched to see where, when and how contamination has taken place. It includes information about, and links to, sources and the GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace web sites as well as other useful sites.
RECENT ADDITIONS/UPDATES TO THE CONTAMINATION REGISTER
27 June
France – GM in rice noodles from China
26 June 2012
France – Unauthorised GM papaya from Thailand.
22 June 2012
Czech Republic – Popcorn contaminated from GM corn grown in Hungary.
9 June 2012
Turkey - hazelnut spread found to contain GMOs.
6 June 2012
Czech Republic - unauthorised genetically modified rice vermicelli from China.
30 May 2012
Switzerland - Genetically modified rapeseed spreading.
22 May 2012 UPDATE
United Kingdom – unauthorised from China continues.
18 May 2012
Italy – Illegal GM Cherry, Kiwi and Olive trees found.
17 May 2012
Thailand – Papaya trees contaminated.
16 May 2012
Thailand – Cotton contaminated with GM.
14 May 2012
Finland - unauthorised genetically modified green papaya from Thailand.
10 May 2012
Norway – finds GM rice vermicelli from China.
1 May 2012
The Netherlands - unauthorised genetically modified (presence of rice protein) feed materials from China.
20 April 2012
Germany – GM rice contamination from China continues.
16 April 2012
Spain – more GM rice from China.
26 March 2012
Italy – more GM rice from China
23 March 2012
Germany – unauthorised GM Papaya from Thailand
23 March
Portugal – Illegal GM rice from China continues
23 March 2012
Slovenia – illegal GM rice from China
16 March 2012
Germany – unauthorised GM basmati rice from Pakistan
15 March 2012
South Africa – Unlabelled GM products on sale
8 March 2012
Belgium – unauthorised GM rice from China
9 February 2012
Denmark - unauthorised genetically modified (Bt63) rice vermicelli from China
10 January 2012
I'm starting to think that non gmo food in the future is going to be worth more then gold.
Thanks monsanto and bill gates, your plans for population reduction are in full swing.
http://www.gmcontaminationregister.org/ ... nt=default
Info from above website:
GM Contamination Register
This GM contamination register is the first of its kind in the world.
Genetically modified crops were first commercially grown on a wide scale in 1996. But, there has always been concern about their effects on both health and the environment. A specific concern has been that once released, it would not be possible to contain or control these organisms yet there is no global monitoring system.
Because of this failure of national and international agencies, GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International launched this joint initiative in 2005 to record all incidents of contamination arising from the intentional or accidental release of genetically modified (GM) organisms (which are also known as genetically engineered (GE) organisms).
It also includes illegal plantings of GM crops and the negative agricultural side-effects that have been reported. Only those incidents which have been publically documented are recorded here. There may be others that are, as yet, undetected.
This site is intended to be a resource for individuals, public interest groups and governments. The register can be searched to see where, when and how contamination has taken place. It includes information about, and links to, sources and the GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace web sites as well as other useful sites.
RECENT ADDITIONS/UPDATES TO THE CONTAMINATION REGISTER
27 June
France – GM in rice noodles from China
26 June 2012
France – Unauthorised GM papaya from Thailand.
22 June 2012
Czech Republic – Popcorn contaminated from GM corn grown in Hungary.
9 June 2012
Turkey - hazelnut spread found to contain GMOs.
6 June 2012
Czech Republic - unauthorised genetically modified rice vermicelli from China.
30 May 2012
Switzerland - Genetically modified rapeseed spreading.
22 May 2012 UPDATE
United Kingdom – unauthorised from China continues.
18 May 2012
Italy – Illegal GM Cherry, Kiwi and Olive trees found.
17 May 2012
Thailand – Papaya trees contaminated.
16 May 2012
Thailand – Cotton contaminated with GM.
14 May 2012
Finland - unauthorised genetically modified green papaya from Thailand.
10 May 2012
Norway – finds GM rice vermicelli from China.
1 May 2012
The Netherlands - unauthorised genetically modified (presence of rice protein) feed materials from China.
20 April 2012
Germany – GM rice contamination from China continues.
16 April 2012
Spain – more GM rice from China.
26 March 2012
Italy – more GM rice from China
23 March 2012
Germany – unauthorised GM Papaya from Thailand
23 March
Portugal – Illegal GM rice from China continues
23 March 2012
Slovenia – illegal GM rice from China
16 March 2012
Germany – unauthorised GM basmati rice from Pakistan
15 March 2012
South Africa – Unlabelled GM products on sale
8 March 2012
Belgium – unauthorised GM rice from China
9 February 2012
Denmark - unauthorised genetically modified (Bt63) rice vermicelli from China
10 January 2012
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Watch out, frankenapples are coming to shops near you. I stoppped eating apples years ago, just
turned off by how loaded in pesticide they are like everything else I suppose.
These gmo apples and pesticides are hindering childrens development.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... _27376.cfm
Thanks to the biotech industry’s relentless quest to control our food, McDonald’s, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won’t turn brown when they’re sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology, called RNA interference, or double strand RNA (dsRNA), is responsible for this new food miracle. Scientists warn that this genetic manipulation poses health risks, as the manipulated RNA gets into our digestive systems and bloodstreams. The biotech industry claims otherwise.
Just one more bad apple
Apples, that is, apples that haven’t been certified organic, already are on the list of Should-Be-Forbidden fruits. They reliably top the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list, for both the volume and the stunning array of pesticides consistently found on them. According to the Pesticide Action Network’s analysis of the most recent USDA data, apples tested positive for 42 pesticides, including organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides. Both are endocrine disruptors, both have suspected neurological effects, and both are considered especially toxic for children. (Organophosphates are the basis for nerve gases used in chemical warfare, and have been linked to the development of ADHD in kids.)
From biodiversity to monoculture
How did we get to the point where it takes 42 pesticides to keep an apple crop healthy? Michael Pollan best explains it in his book Botany of Desire. Turns out that apples have an extreme tendency toward something called heterozygosity, which means genetic variability. This trait accounts for how, left to its own devices, the apple can “make itself at home in places as different from one another as New England and New Zealand, Kazakhstan and California.” Pollan writes: “Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple – at least five per apple, several thousand per tree – that a couple of these novelties are almost bound to have whatever qualities it takes to prosper in the tree’s adopted home.”
Today, you’d have to visit the apple orchard museum in Geneva, New York, to find all the varieties of apples that used to thrive in the wild. Over time, in our quest to control the taste, texture and appearance of apples, we’ve eliminated all but a relative few varieties. We’ve gone too far, says Pollan. By relying on too few genes for too long, the apple has lost its ability to get along on its own, outdoors.
turned off by how loaded in pesticide they are like everything else I suppose.
These gmo apples and pesticides are hindering childrens development.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... _27376.cfm
Thanks to the biotech industry’s relentless quest to control our food, McDonald’s, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won’t turn brown when they’re sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology, called RNA interference, or double strand RNA (dsRNA), is responsible for this new food miracle. Scientists warn that this genetic manipulation poses health risks, as the manipulated RNA gets into our digestive systems and bloodstreams. The biotech industry claims otherwise.
Just one more bad apple
Apples, that is, apples that haven’t been certified organic, already are on the list of Should-Be-Forbidden fruits. They reliably top the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list, for both the volume and the stunning array of pesticides consistently found on them. According to the Pesticide Action Network’s analysis of the most recent USDA data, apples tested positive for 42 pesticides, including organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides. Both are endocrine disruptors, both have suspected neurological effects, and both are considered especially toxic for children. (Organophosphates are the basis for nerve gases used in chemical warfare, and have been linked to the development of ADHD in kids.)
From biodiversity to monoculture
How did we get to the point where it takes 42 pesticides to keep an apple crop healthy? Michael Pollan best explains it in his book Botany of Desire. Turns out that apples have an extreme tendency toward something called heterozygosity, which means genetic variability. This trait accounts for how, left to its own devices, the apple can “make itself at home in places as different from one another as New England and New Zealand, Kazakhstan and California.” Pollan writes: “Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple – at least five per apple, several thousand per tree – that a couple of these novelties are almost bound to have whatever qualities it takes to prosper in the tree’s adopted home.”
Today, you’d have to visit the apple orchard museum in Geneva, New York, to find all the varieties of apples that used to thrive in the wild. Over time, in our quest to control the taste, texture and appearance of apples, we’ve eliminated all but a relative few varieties. We’ve gone too far, says Pollan. By relying on too few genes for too long, the apple has lost its ability to get along on its own, outdoors.
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Nice info, Opal. Just so much crazy shit going on out there.......