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On 2019-09-11 9:17 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 6:31:02 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 03:08:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 7:17:25 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 02:50:15 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 1:12:32 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:37:42 +0700, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:22:27 +1000, Bruce >
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 20:27:29 -0700 (PDT), "
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 8:45:46 PM UTC-5, Jeßus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:32:12 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
>>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm bored. My wife and SIL are gone to a class reunion. Check out this
>>>>>>>>>>> picture of sweet corn muffins that I made today. There's not much color
>>>>>>>>>>> to them.
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qf3djfdi4tlezy/corn%20muffins.jpg?dl=0>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'd like to try those. Never had corn muffins before.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> They're rather 'blonde' looking but you don't know what you're missing by
>>>>>>>>> having never eaten corn muffins.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Americans and their corn are like Asians and their soy beans.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <room reserved for Jebus>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, true in the sense it's overused thanks to lobbyists and
>>>>>>> manufacturers in the U.S. But that's not to say corn is of itself bad
>>>>>>> in moderation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I don't think so either, although it's probably always GM in the
>>>>>> US.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, of course it isn't. Much of the sweet corn grown directly for the
>>>>> table is non-GMO. Some dent corn is non-GMO so that some people can have
>>>>> their fish tacos GMO-free.
>>>>
>>>> "Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is genetically engineered (GE), as
>>>> are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton [1] (cottonseed oil is often
>>>> used in food products). It has been estimated that upwards of 75% of
>>>> processed foods on supermarket shelves €“ from soda to soup, crackers
>>>> to condiments €“ contain genetically engineered ingredients."
>>>> <https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/311/ge-foods/about-ge-foods>
>>>>
>>>> There goes your biodiversity. Everything becomes the same. In the
>>>> future, all Americans will look and talk like Gary. You'll all have
>>>> freshly painted houses full of ferrets!
>>>
>>> Eight percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is still a helluva lot of
>>> corn. 8% of 366.6 million metric tons is close to 30 million metric
>>> tons.

>>
>> Most of your corn is GM, which was my point.

>
> And my point is that people who don't want to eat GM corn can find
> non-GM corn. You said "probably always", which is simply not the case.
>
> The relatively few people who actually care about GMOs aren't likely to
> eat grocery-store processed food anyway.
>
> It's interesting that about half of Americans think GMOs are worse for
> one's health, yet roughly 92% of them eat GMO corn (sometimes filtered
> through farm animals first).
>


I am not concerned about health issues from GMO foods. I just dislike
their marketing. For as long as there has been agriculture farmers have
been saving a portion of their crop for seed for future crops. Farmers
bought seed and then cultivated the crops, replanted and the cycle
continued. With GMO plants they have to buy the seed new each year or
pay a license fee to sow the grain that they grew. They have prosecuted
farmers for using the seed of GMO grains that infiltrated their crops.
If I ran the world the farmers would be able to take action against
Monsanto for the contamination of their crops.