Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 06:43 PM 5/26/2008, you wrote:

> GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SUGAR TO
> HIT STORES IN 2008
> www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_7031.cfm

A relative of mine, who has a degree in agriculture, argues that refined
sugar is nothing more than crystals of C12
H22 O11 , and
is demanding that I explain how GMO seeds could affect that. He's
probably right about that, and I've gone on at length about
cross-contamination of other related beet varieties, as well as swiss
chard. And the medical consequences of glycosate in our drinking water,
and other peripheral dangers. And the fact that byproducts of sugar
manufacture are used in other food products--dried beet pulp is used as
cattle feed, and beet molasses is used to culture yeast, for example. But
if anyone here can give me specific data on how the GMO seed affects the
final refined product, I'd appreciate it.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com