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Drugged soybeans update
There's an article here about the fines levied against Prodigene for the Nebraska mess. http://www.yorknewstimes.com/stories...20702010.shtml An earlier article said the farmer was told to pull the corn plants and remove them. He didnąt do it. I wonder if Prodigene will sue the farmer for his laziness. Let's say the contamination wasn't detected. What could happen as far as health effects? How dangerous is this in the real world? Dean -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Drugged soybeans update
On 12/7/02 4:11 PM, in article ,
"Gordon Couger" wrote: "Dean Hoffman" wrote in message ... There's an article here about the fines levied against Prodigene for the Nebraska mess. http://www.yorknewstimes.com/stories...20702010.shtml An earlier article said the farmer was told to pull the corn plants and remove them. He didnąt do it. I wonder if Prodigene will sue the farmer for his laziness. Let's say the contamination wasn't detected. What could happen as far as health effects? How dangerous is this in the real world? Probably it has no health cosciquecse at all. If it did get ground up into the human food supply the concentration would be so low that no known poison or allergen would have any effect. The problem is with public confidence. Every step is on public trial and we can't afford foolish errors like this. There is no reason that we can't raise a crop isolated from others of the same kind. But you can't do it by following the pharm crop with a food crop of the same thing. You eat lot more rat turds in your bread than there would have been pharicutial corn in the corn from that feild. Gordon I like your idea of growing the drug producing corn plants somewhere else besides the Corn Belt. The yields might be less but who would care? We get tornadoes and some pretty strong straight winds in eastern Nebraska. I don't know how it would be possible to completely eliminate cross pollination. The farmer with the regular crop would have no idea if his field was cross pollinated. It would probably make no difference but would it be worth it in this time of class action lawsuits? Seed corn companies use isolation crops planted at the edges of their seed fields. The isolation crops are destroyed after the field is pollinated. The worst that would happen is their hybrid isn't pure. Corn pollen isn't viable for too long a period but who knows when a good wind will blow. Old timers say red dirt was blowing up here during the Depression. That would've had to come from your area. I would think corn pollen could travel farther. People might be doing more potential harm to themselves by careless food handling at home than anything else that happens in the food chain. Even Ecoli wouldn't be a problem if food is cooked properly. It shouldn't get to the grocery store in the first place though. By the way, Okie State did good a couple weeks ago. It's always good to hear OU got their butts kicked. Dean -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Drugged soybeans update
Dean Hoffman writes
I like your idea of growing the drug producing corn plants somewhere else besides the Corn Belt. The yields might be less but who would care? We get tornadoes and some pretty strong straight winds in eastern Nebraska. I don't know how it would be possible to completely eliminate cross pollination. Do tornadoes occur before the end of tasselling? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Drugged soybeans update
Gordon Couger writes
If you are in the neighborhood in sort season and want to chase one we can fix you up. Don't say things like that. It's tempting .... But not at that time of year. :-( -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Drugged soybeans update
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 20:12:26 -0600, "Gordon Couger"
wrote: Pollen that is carried very far on the wind is not variable. it dehydrates. We can measure the dust from China blowing over here so it carries a good way. Every once in a while we get smoke in the upper atmosphere from Mexico burning sugar cane before harvest. I think you mean "viable", not "variable." Maize pollen viability depends on time, temperature, and humidity. Viability falls rapidly in hot, dry conditions but pollen can be viable for hours in cool, moist conditions. That's long enough for pollen to travel into the next county (if not farther) when winds are strong. --- Remove the obvious spamtrap to reply. Unit #02582: Endangered Old-Growth Redwood Toothpick Artisans, LLC [TINEO-GRTALLC] |
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