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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why Organic Seed
  • Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:41:16 -0400

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:47:47 -0400, you wrote:

>>Why should non-organic seed produce safer food? I just
>>can't think of any conceivable reason why this should be so.
>
>Isn't the simplest answer to this that, by definition, organic seed
>is non-GMO but non-Organic seed MAY BE GMO and we don't know enough
>about GMO crops to know if they are good food for man or beast in the
>long run?

But you've got it backwards. The question asked was this:

"If a person asks if the food from
non organic seed produces safer food, what is the response?"
(This is a direct cut-and-paste from Marty's message - you
can read it for yourself, if you wish).

Note: he asked if *NON*-organic seed is safer.

I said "Why would it be?"

Pat


-- northern Pennsylvania




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