Seed Keepers

["Woody" <wderyckx@peoplepc.com>]

Because when I grow beet or sweet chard seed organically to supply organic farmers and gardeners, some of the GMO pollen will get into the female flowers of my organic beets or chard and then my organic seed will be contaminated.  Then someone tests the seed and finds GMO and then it would no longer be organic nor pure and I would have my crop rejected.  I did not ask for the pollen to come and contaminate my table beet seed or swiss chard seed - it is trespassing on my place - but I (or other organic seed grower) would be the loser - the victem.  Don' t think that is worth caring about?

 

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From: lucy Owsley

To: seedkeepers

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:28 PM

Subject: Re: [seedkeepers] Thanks to Lawrence

I am unhappy about GMO sugar beets but why is everyone paranoid about GMO Beet pollen flying around. Beets are biennial and so will be harvested long before they go to flower so should not be a threat in this way.

If we are going to fight this do not give bad reasons for banning these seeds/plants because this just gives the genejockys fuel to keep on going with this.

On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Woody wrote:

Did you know that the few companies that control sugar beet production (and 

beet sugar production) in the USA are quietly switching over to ROUNDUP 

READY     sugar beets with MONSANTO technology?  Yes, right now as we 

converse,  beet seed growers in Oregon's Willammett Valley are transplanting 

planting vernalized plugs for the first mass seed crop of GMO seed.

This means:

Beet Sugar and all products that contain this ingredient will most likely be 

GMO

Pollen from GMO sugar beets will soon be flying all over the sugar beet seed 

growing regions potentially contaminating table beet seed  and swiss chard 

seed.

Organic seed growers are threatened by GMO contamination!!!!

The Organic Seed Alliance along with High Mowing Seed and the Center for 

Food Safety and others has filed suit against the USDA APHIS for allowing 

this without proper environmental impact review  but there will be no 

imediate injunction against the planting out of this GMO material.  See 

www.seedalliance.org for more information.

I wonder if  B.T. Cabbage won't be next.  And then what?  The government 

continues to approve these monsters without due process and prudent review. 

The government continues to resist demands to require labeling of GMO 

products.

Lucy Goodman

Boulder Belt Eco-Farm

Eaton, OH

http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com

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