Woodstock CT Café

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Thanks Db. We went green at Cafe central and at my parent’s house about the same time you did. We’ll look into it.

I think it would be great if they opened a Morse Stand (like in Southbridge) in East Woodstock. This part of town could use a “corner store” of some kind. I hope they consider it, I think they would do well since there is not much for miles when it comes to buying milk and eggs and fresh produce.

PS – What about Tomatoes? When are they at their best and where ARE the best available? Like so many of us, I grew up driving around with a Salt Shaker to sneak into various tomato patches and eat them like an Apple with salt.

Was it on The Cafe’ that I read about some simple genetic manipulation of Tomatoes, rendering a specific ‘strain’ (*?) of Tomatoes to ripen quickly and stay fully ripe AND full of that specific, excellent flavor vine-ripened Tomatoes have at their peak, but dissipates too quickly even though they appear fine.

The report said that these changes were otherwise some of the most harmless and isolated (no other effects) that the group of Scientists had encountered in the field. Best of both worlds…

In spite of the warm spring farmers have learned not to risk planting early because of that one frost. For a small garden I usually risked planting a few rows of corn early. The first year I did this I had one corn plant that survived and the rest of the corn planted the following week grew up around this plant. I watched that corn grow on a daily basis and at one point I decided to pick it the next day. The next morning I went out to harvest and discovered that the resident groundhog had been watching the same corn plant as I. He got the first corn that summer .

Genetically modified organisms (GMO) is the same as genetically engineered. It’s true that there are many who have some sort of fear about GMOs. I think that this started with the publication of Andromeda Strain and the isolation of the first gene (by my Grad Sch mentor) both in 1969. When Monsanto (and DeKalb in CT) developed Round-UP Ready crops (corn, cotton, soybeans, alfafa etc) which are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, they engineered the plant with a nuclear gene rather than a chloroplast gene. As a result the recombinant glyphosate resistance gene is present in spores and spores can fly into neighboring fields. I spent a year evaluating the risks of environmental recombinant DNA for a major company developing recombinant algae, but could not find any example of a negative impact to the enviroment or health. Monsanto sued importers of Soy in Britain who imported soy flower from Argentina. Argentina has no patent protection agreement with the US so Argentinians stole Monsanto’s recombinant soybeans. You could detect the recombinant gene in the soy flower shipped to England. So the British and Europeans did not know they were eating recombinant soymeal.

Sounds like you have done some homework on this, FAS. I am definitely not a fan of Monsanto. It’s the use of glyphosate, the herbicide that is spread before or while planting the seeds. I’m not concerned with the GMO seeds except when Monsanto litigates neighboring farmers because Monsanto pollen flew over to other field. When they sued the European importer of Argentinian soyflower, Monsanto shot themselves in the foot by bring the public to their attention that they were eating engineered soy.

The great benefit of GMO crops is making corps more productive and stress tolerant especially for Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia where drought and heat is a bigger problem although we are hearing more about this in the US this year.

Doubtful, I do believe it was mentioned in that video I linked to above, or Food Inc. Although, after reading this article, perhaps that activity was due to their suspected patent infringement, not randomly. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it; I should do so again soon. Has anyone else?

http://nelsonfarm.net/feb16.htm

The movie “Michael Clayton” is one of my favorites. George Clooney won an Academy Award for his role, I believe. The movie is sort of a veiled story about Monsanto.

Very disturbing how much power Monsanto has.

The so called “Monsanto Rider” quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed.

Db

While I too am not to concerned with what is produced from a plant itself. I am concerned about the environment. Me? I’m like Europe I think that because of what is known currently (12-2012) that because we were lied to. We could be headed for drug resistant bacteria and germs.
There currently is considerable proof from real science if looked up even on the computer that these seeds are not just altered. They have produced poisons that would normally kill all of these plants including corn. And in order not to kill them have been using something never done before. A protein inhibitor to allow their poisons to enter the cell walls within the plant so that the plant does not die from their poisons. There are currently several Chem companies that are doing this in the US. Again for me for what current research has revealed our lives could be shortened depending- – on us. The greater worry is what this will do to the bacteria on them that we are connected to and have been for millions of years.