Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Agriculture (in some form) has been going on for 10,000 years. Greed-driven opportunists have been genetically modifying corn, soy, beets, alfalfa, etc for less than 30 years. I grew up in Ohio and visited relatives in Nebraska. Between my home state and in my travels, I saw hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of acres of corn, wheat, beans...later soy beans. ALL of those thousands of acres of food were non-GMO, because GMO had not been "invented" by the Dark Ones that want to control all food. There was no boost of ANY sort when GMO seeds were developed and sold. No boost in nutrition, no boost in drought-resistance, no boost in wilt resistance... only a boost in profits for the Dark Forces.Posted by blufire (here)
I couldn’t . . . . not thousands of acres in one growing season . . . no more than I could grow thousands of acres of corn or soy beans without genetic modification.
. . . . and I am a master grower/farmer with 30+ years of experience.
YOU may have convinced yourself that thousands of acres of crops cannot be grown without GMO, but it has already been done, for decades and decades. That is not conjecture. It has been done. There was enough to feed all the people domestically, all the cattle and pigs and fowl, and giant ships full of NON-GMO crops grown in the US were shipped around the world. Do you remember this? Do you know this is true? GMOs provide no benefits to society at all, only to the Dark Ones.
Okay . . . .I guess I have to just keep trying to refute misinformation or just give up . . . . Call the dogs and piss on the fire (difficult for a woman)
Dennis you and I are about the same age (I’m 54) and so we would remember and have experienced the same events, even though, I can surmise that me growing up in Appalachia and then living the last 25 years in Kansas and your growing up and past would differ and allow us to contribute different perspectives on those same events and history.
You speak of those 1,000 of acres of corn, soy beans and wheat when you were young and your insistence they were not GMO or genetically engineered.
. . . .well you would be categorically wrong my friend, because they were. Genetic engineering began in the early 70’s and all those fields you saw as a child were already being treated with pre-emergent and post-emergent herbicides. ALL the different seed companies created their own compatible seed/chemicals combinations. At that time and into the late 80’s farmers had to buy that specific combination of seed and chemicals that would take each crop into harvest.
From the mid 80’s and moving forward came the extreme engineering of crops and farming methods or the GMO and massive biotechnology we have today.
I have posted this several times before on PA and I guess I just keep posting. It is categorically and simply IMPOSSIBLE for a farmer to farm by the old method (plowing, harrowing, planting, cultivating (min of 2 during growing), and harvesting over 200 acres. There are ‘windows’ of time that seed have to be planted . . . too early it won’t germinate or rot in the ground, too late in burns up in the sun and heat. The growing season is limited to a few months of the year. Harvest has to happen before the winter and snow sets in.
There is literally not enough time in the day, days in the month or months in the growing season to grow more than 200 +/- acres in the ‘old way’. I KNOW this personally because I farmed 30 acres in Kansas in the ‘old way’.
Think of the Amish and Mennonites . . . look at their farms and how many acres they farm . . . you won’t find any that are over 40-80 acres, individually. But, the Amish communities as a whole work together and help farm each others acreage and are very efficient.
I feel you and others almost desperately need me to be wrong on this . . . but I am not. I have lived it personally and worked closely for years with conventional farmers and understand thoroughly WHY they had no other option other than to convert to gmo farming. But there are farmers (like me) who will never convert to chemical farming and will always teach the old ways of farming and homesteading.
We have to have both. I see this now. Do I like it? No. But neither do I like the idea of people starving by the tens of thousands as we saw until chemical farming.
Do YOU remember this Dennis . . . . in the 60’s and through the 70’s? All the thousands that died in the 3rd world countries and even the 1st world countries on a daily basis?
But I guess you or Grip will say that too was false information put out by the Evil Dark Ones. . . . .




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