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[Ben Martin Horst <ben.martinhorst@gmail.com>]

Sorry ... I should have said chards and beets, which are, of course, not
brassicas. That's what I get for typing faster than my brain can keep up.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, tanya <tanyagarden@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)... "]
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