[AT] OT--game changer

[charlie hill]

Exactly Ralph.  We could NOT feed the world today without them.
I'm no fan of Monsanto by any means and I don't like the way
the GMO seed companies bully the non GMO producers when
they get an accidental cross pollination but the fact is that it allows
an ever dwindling farm population to feed the world.  There is a
GMO wheat that could cure most of the nutrient induced blindness in
Africa but I believe some of those countries won't allow it.   They'd rather
their people go blind I guess.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 3:43 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT--game changer

On 3/21/2015 11:38 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Me either David.  As far as the GMO stuff
> goes, it is nothing more than what seed producers
> have done for more than a century.  it's just shortcut by doing
> it in the lab under a microscope instead of by selectively
> crossbreeding generation after generation of plants in the field
> or greenh.
>
> Charlie
Charlie, that is exactly the message I try to get across to the great
uneducated but opinionated masses that
seem to think I am responsible for all the evils in the world by growing
roundup ready canola and spraying
it with Roundup. Usually I just let the remarks pass because there is no
use in arguing with a closed mind.
To me the bottom line is that all the herbicides and pesticides we use
are carcinogenic but I can't grow a decent
crop without them. And organic food sure won't feed the world. I'd be
happy grow organic crops and be
independent of the chemical companies but I don't see it happening. In
this part of the world the crop
sprayer is the most important and used machine on most farms.

Ralph in Sask.

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