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Article: The Dirty Secret of Organic Seeds

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Post Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:02 am

Article: The Dirty Secret of Organic Seeds

Here's an interesting blog article about how the seeds are being contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMO) and getting sold to organic growers. Farmers and gardeners are planting entire fields with GMO 'tainted' seeds and they're not even aware of it.

Read the article here.

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Post Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:09 am

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That is so sad. GMOs do more harm than good. They harm both humans and environment. Once planted, GMOs run the risk of contaminating nearby plants. Even when GM crops are planted away from other plants, winds and water runoff threaten to spread the seeds and spores of GMOs far from where they are growing.

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Post Sat May 02, 2009 4:16 pm

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GMO's have no business in this world. Companies like Monsanto, Dekalb and others create more than just a Geneticly Modified Product they create murder, suicide and poverty. For what? Their Bottom line. Mankind can not improve on perfection and yet these companies try daily.

Watch this video for some really sad but really informative news on Monsanto and GMO's
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episo ... ction/967/
I warn you it's long.

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Post Tue May 19, 2009 2:21 pm

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You have to be so careful at the store to make sure you're not getting GMO in things like milk. Buying organic seems the best way, but you can't buy everything organic. I would be very happy if every adulterated item had to have a little red GMO legend on the packaging.

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Post Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:34 am

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Unfortunately, I don't know how we can be sure a product is totally organic as we're standing in a grocery store making decisions about what to buy.

Obviously, doing as much research as possible is a good start but information seems to change on a lot of health related topics in general.

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Post Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:59 pm

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GM is a monster that has been set loose in the world and there is no stopping it's spread. It's a pandora's box we should never have opened... but now it's too late...

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Post Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:33 am

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Isn't there some kind o test or something that can be done to know if we are not accidently consuming GMOs

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