Growing Pharma-Food

[wilagro]

Don't know what happened there with that gap Parsley...just insert these words and that will do..."CERTIFIED" AS BEING GULLIBLE.

[wd9]

This story is at least 7 years old btw.

[parsley]

It was regurgitated in twitter this morning. And
reminded me of the insidious effect of stacking
over the years. And how due diligence is still not
considered important. I did a casual search for
the implimentation of remedial practices. And
protocol that prevents further forbidden ' lab in
the field' escapees. Those oopsies are not
considered important; indeed they are instead
hidden, protected, and defended,

I can accept risk. Do it every day.

Biotech needs present eaters with the scope of
the risk as the first step. Pars.

I will assume the "I Don't give a rat's ass"
attitude prevails, oopsies are ignored entirely ,
and rice is stacked.

Will, anyone growing foo for the hyper-allergic
understands the importance if due diligence. And
hope to hell you never have to depend on
integrity.

[ado089]

Parsley, when these big bio companies
produce their hybrid devil seed they
must keep a buffer from like species.
For canola that is a mile. I can't even
begin to iterate how much work that
takes when every company has 100,000
accres plus of anual seed production. If
you want to supply a premium, niche
market perhaps you should practice the
same due diligence. Allergies are not
new, it's just in the recent past those
with severe allergies have survived past
childhood.

[parsley]

I find seed growers diligent. Just as I find organic
audit trails conscientious.

But there are companies and people who break
trust. They cannot be sheltered and protected.
Growing in secret must be exposed. Sheltering
malpractice must be called out. You know what
happens when seed growers close ranks? It's
trust-suicide.

Don't try and tell me that organics are just as
bad' . Or that stacking or modification is not any
different than natural selection. Or change names
to avoid responsibility. Tighten up your industry
to strengthen it.

Grow up and take responsibility and stop
defending those who will not. It will pay off in the
long run. For everyone. Pars.

[Hopperbin]

Not sure how true but heard that if the auditors in the organics industry did their due diligence there would be no organic growers at all. And there would also be no organic auditors. Like they are going to put them selves out of business.

[wd9]

Also Parsely, this isn't stacking.

[parsley]

Exercise your right to not purchase organic food,
hopper, it's clearly labelled. The educated and
wealthy's growing support clealy show they
disagree with you.

No, stacking is not the issue, wd, This time. But
it will be, sometime.. Pars

[Hopperbin]

Sorry parsly as a grower I don't purchase organic at all and i stand by myself in my purchases. I don't believe in it. Yet pars if I have to dust my potatoes in the garden and have to choose between picking the bugs off I will pick them. I don't like to dust in the garden where I may be putting on 20 times the chemical. At least I know as how I farm I put on the exact amount. no one is going to tell me I spray the shit out of it like some ass hole on here thinks we spray the shit out of it, not sure what he is thinking

[ColevilleH2S]

As usual, people even as keen as Pars
completely misunderstand real risk. To
them I ask; Genetic modification of crops
has killed how many people? Come on, is a
technology with a safety track record as
good as GMO's, really worth this much
slander and fear mongering?

Focusing your emotion and energy on
something like e.coli control or soil
erosion would be far more beneficial to
humanity.