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  • From: Armed With A Mind Armed With A Mind <armedwithamind@hotmail.com>
  • To: permagriculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permagriculture] Plant lists for the tropics + comment on go
  • Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:33:28 +0000

Please remove me from the list. Too busy to read all this info. I wish you
all the best!

> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> From: spsherm@msn.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:59:09 -0600
> Subject: Re: [permagriculture] Plant lists for the tropics + comment on go
>
> What I mean by plant location is the class of GMO plants which produce
> their own insecticide systemically. Bt corn as an example:
>
> Bt was/is an approved organic insecticide. Before GMO corn it was
> sprayed on and would eventually wash off. With the variants of Bt GMO
> corn however, all cells in the corn plant make Bt, including the parts
> which humans and animals eat. Traces of the Bt toxin can now be found in
> most Americans and in infant amniotic fluid. I have not heard of any
> studies, but I suspect the same would be true of the animals fed this
> corn. This GMO crop has taken a relatively safe insecticide which was
> applied only to the exterior of the plant, and make it systemic
> throughout the plant. Cannot be washed off or peeled off.
>
> There is no recognition that changing the delivery mechanism of an
> insecticide has the potential to change exposure amounts and whether or
> not it is still safe. As we have seen, it certainly changes its
> distribution and accumulation in the animals (including humans) which
> eat that crop.
>
> On 9/18/2015 3:20 PM, Lawrence London wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Stephen Sherman <spsherm@msn.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Exactly Lawrence. And even beyond that, there was no recognition that
> >> changing the delivery methods
> >
> >
> >> and plant location of previously approved chemicals
> >
> > What does this mean, plant location?
> >
> >
> >
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