permaculture

[Leslie Moyer <unschooler@lrec.org>]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:40 AM, John Fritz wrote:

> But it is irrelevant.  Blume's idea is for the use of CGM as a by-product 
> of locally produced ethanol which is entirely independent of corporate 
> webs.   

Well, that part of my response was just a (bad) joke. The point I was making 
was that virtually ALL of the corn grown in this country (and every other 
country) is grown from SEED purchased from a multinational seed company such 
as Monsanto.  I was referring to one step further back in the process--where 
one gets the SEED to grow the corn to make the ethanol from which one gets 
the "waste" of CGM.  And even if one TRIES to buy seed that *isn't* GMO and 
owned by Monsanto, the non-GMO seed genetics are getting polluted from GMO 
corn and Monsanto is suing for ownership of THAT....i.e. eventually Monsanto 
owns ALL of the corn produced anywhere in the world.  At the very least, it 
is certainly not "irrelevant."  Unfortunately.

Mostly, however, I just wanted to correct the notion that CGM was some magic 
potion that somehow knows the difference between weed seeds and "whatever it 
is you WANT to grow" seeds.  

--Leslie