Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

Both New leaf , newleaf plus, and new leaf Y, were supposed to have been taken off the market (2001), I thought after it was shown to be relatively toxic to livestock and lab rats, causing buyers to ask growers to discontinue growing any of the varieties containing its particular modifications.The FDA wasn't aware of any of its properties since they aren't allowed to study food toxicity unless its for marketing purposes, the original studies regarding its toxic side effects came from I think Scotland.

http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/crops/potato.html

If by mosaic virus they are talking cauliflower mosaic, that a piece of information I want to do some scouting on, camv virus is downright deadly to plants as it permanently switches on segments of RNA causing it to create random protein strings when used in combination with interons. To actually resist it one expects the equivalent of an ARM might have been introduced into it which is pretty terrifying. Never heard of Freedomn II, I'll look it up.




--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] a few gmo veggies for commercial growers
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 7:13 PM

Well, I've said here and there that there are no GMO seed for home
vegetable gardening, only for the big field crops. Now that's not quite
true. Hate it when that happens. 

There are a couple tomatoes for commercial growers, one is no longer sold.
The other is named Endless Summer. There's a potato named New Leaf,
supposedly resistant to something or other. And a Freedom II
 squash
supposed to resist some mosaic virus. Still I've never seen any of these
freaks for sale in catalogs or websites and I've seen a lot of sources. 

http://ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/science/engineere
d-foods-allowed-on.html


paul tradingpost@lobo.net



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