permaculture

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

> re sugarbeets: as far as I know, refined sugar can be made from sugar cane
> or sugarbeets, and the source does not need to be specified on the label.
> So sugar may be GM if it's not organically grown.
>
> Beets are not in the same family as brassicas. Why would there be
> cross-contamination?
> [Ben wrote, " ...brassicas (due to the possibility of cross-contamination
> with GM sugarbeets)... "]

Ben no doubt meant to say canola but slipped with the finger.
john