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<blockquote data-quote="IGotMyWings" data-source="post: 739760" data-attributes="member: 8639"><p>I was thinking about asking for support against RR alfalfa because I'm a tree hugger...well, not a hugger so much, but I have given a firm hand shake to a few...anyway, I raise grass fed - from teat to meat - cattle. I do so for two reasons. Firstly, I do it because I want healthier meat in my freezer, and secondly, I discovered that there is a market for it, and I can sell for three times normal market. Before you say that I'm gouging, my last freezer beef sale had an end price of $4.51/pound of meat, store bought grass fed beef can be as high as $40/pound, so I'm a bargain!</p><p></p><p>I've noticed that some have confused GMO with hybrids. You can make a hybrid by planting two different genus of plants in close proximity and they will cross pollinate, creating a third. You can hybrid animals by mixing the different blood lines the old fashioned way. Genetic modification, to me, is test tubing and has bad things written all over it. Part of the bad I see is that even though we dislike Monsanto, we cave and buy their product anyway, supporting the type of business practices that we'd never do. Another part is that because we've gotten away from nature, we're seeing higher diabetes, cancer and obesity rates than ever before. </p><p></p><p>Those of us that raise natural or organic beef do so because we believe that it's a better choice than feedlot beef. I've said on here before that I know people who have the same allergic reactions to beef once in a while that they have to taking penicillin so they have to watch what they buy. If a farm has taken the steps to become certified organic, and cross pollinating alfalfa gets into their pasture or purchased hay, they would lose the certification that they worked for, which I honestly believe is what Monsanto et al are after. The organic/natural market is growing, and that takes money away from them, so if they flood the market with seed that will cross pollinate and in essence contaminate a portion of the organic food supply, which means they win because every "contaminated" farm will lose the ability to sell as organic removing that choice from the market.</p><p></p><p>I was also a bean field walking kid, and looking back, I don't think it hurt me nearly as bad as fake food has!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IGotMyWings, post: 739760, member: 8639"] I was thinking about asking for support against RR alfalfa because I'm a tree hugger...well, not a hugger so much, but I have given a firm hand shake to a few...anyway, I raise grass fed - from teat to meat - cattle. I do so for two reasons. Firstly, I do it because I want healthier meat in my freezer, and secondly, I discovered that there is a market for it, and I can sell for three times normal market. Before you say that I'm gouging, my last freezer beef sale had an end price of $4.51/pound of meat, store bought grass fed beef can be as high as $40/pound, so I'm a bargain! I've noticed that some have confused GMO with hybrids. You can make a hybrid by planting two different genus of plants in close proximity and they will cross pollinate, creating a third. You can hybrid animals by mixing the different blood lines the old fashioned way. Genetic modification, to me, is test tubing and has bad things written all over it. Part of the bad I see is that even though we dislike Monsanto, we cave and buy their product anyway, supporting the type of business practices that we'd never do. Another part is that because we've gotten away from nature, we're seeing higher diabetes, cancer and obesity rates than ever before. Those of us that raise natural or organic beef do so because we believe that it's a better choice than feedlot beef. I've said on here before that I know people who have the same allergic reactions to beef once in a while that they have to taking penicillin so they have to watch what they buy. If a farm has taken the steps to become certified organic, and cross pollinating alfalfa gets into their pasture or purchased hay, they would lose the certification that they worked for, which I honestly believe is what Monsanto et al are after. The organic/natural market is growing, and that takes money away from them, so if they flood the market with seed that will cross pollinate and in essence contaminate a portion of the organic food supply, which means they win because every "contaminated" farm will lose the ability to sell as organic removing that choice from the market. I was also a bean field walking kid, and looking back, I don't think it hurt me nearly as bad as fake food has! [/QUOTE]
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