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I Won’t Eat My Own Crops!
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GMO Farmer: ‘I Won’t Eat My Own Crops!’ CAN YOU IMAGINE A FARMER WHO WON’T EAT HIS OWN CROPS? HERE YA GO…..
Jan. 7, 2015
Natural Society
Like a thousand other farmers across the US, Kirk Bair is a farmer looking for ways to grow food economically and with as little labor as possible – but what are the moral implications of planting food you are aware is toxic, and selling it to your friends and neighbors?
Is Bair in the right for planting GMO seed, even if conventional seed is hard to come by?
Is Bair in the right for planting GMO seed, even if conventional seed is hard to come by?
Bair has said:
“When you put a herbicide gene inside a corn seed, soybean, wheat, whatever you’re working with, you’re eating that. You’re ingesting it.”
It is clear that Bair realizes the health dangers of GM crops, but he plants them anyway? Why? He feels he has no choice, and there is a multi-billion dollar industry calling the shots.
“I’ve got some good looking ears coming,” said Kirk Bair, admiring his genetically modified corn crop, developed with Monsanto’s technology.
When asked why he has planted GM corn, Blair states:
“To use conventional corn, non-GMO, I’d have to till, apply pre-emergence herbicide. It’s more economical and more convenient to use GMO corn on real ground. I only use it because I felt like I had to. My seed supplier said, ‘Kirk it’s harder and harder to get a hold of conventional seed.’”
In less than a decade, the US has gone from planning 100% conventional seeds to almost 90% genetically modified seeds. Corn, soybeans and cotton are some of the most commonly grown GM crops – all considered staples.
Even though Blair grows GM crops, he says:
“I want to know what I am eating and I don’t want to eat GMO foods.”
Imagine that – a farmer who won’t eat his own crops.
He has even supported labeling initiatives in California stating:
“People need to know what they’re eating. People want to know what they’re eating.”
This is a strange phenomenon – when farmers will knowingly plant crops they realize are dangerous to human health.
Are they right about giving in to Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta when banned GM crops are being found in Europe, or when they are growing in Oregon and Minnesota fields without permission?
What about cross-pollination? Is a farmer’s ability to grow non-GMO completely compromised already to such a degree that she or he has to just shut down their tilling machines like a defeated warrior laying down his sword?
“Because they benefit from the technology – after all, 17.3 million farmers around the world do so, and their numbers grow each season.
In addition to higher yields and higher farm income, their reasons include:
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Improved quality (e.g., lower levels of mycotoxins in GM insect-resistant maize)”
To the astute reader, there are several items on this list that are completely false – ‘less worry about pest damage’ could elicit an entire book of refutation. GM crops have increased worry about pest infestation. The emergence of superweeds and superbugs was in tandem with GM planting.
The ‘savings in machinery’ is arguable, too, as more and more herbicide and pesticide use likely eats up any saved costs from having to spray more often – not less. The soil is also not preserved with GM crop planting – but destroyed. This has been proven many times over.
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Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-wont-eat-my-own-crops.html
“It is clear that Bair realizes the health dangers of GM crops, but he plants them anyway? Why? He feels he has no choice, and there is a multi-billion dollar industry calling the shots.”
What’s that old, old saying about money??? Oh yeah!
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
And think about all the toxins coming down out of the atmosphere. I have grown my food for the last 5 years
And this past year harvest was maybe 20% of the year before. I know it will have to be covered this coming year.
All my seeds are from the year before, I know they’re not GMO.
Don’t people know this “gene” is toxic to humanity?
All our health problems escalate year to year why is that?
Is does start locally, the small farmers here are battling the forces that be, NOT to allow GMO SEED in the county.
I save my carrot seeds by leaving them the carrot in for next year I save tomato seeds too and leeks beetroot all saved from the year before
but I think if your starving you will eat anything even if it is GMO