GMO corn vs organic corn?
No comparison!
Why grow this:
When you could grow this?
GMO Corn vs Organic Corn
So – what reasons could I give for growing your own organic corn or heirloom corn and skipping the GMO corn from the store?
How about the dangerous levels of glysophate and fluoride in factory farmed gen-mod corn?
http://permaculturenews.org/2013/04/22/stunning-difference-of-gm-from-non-gm-corn/
Nice, eh? Fluoride-induced brain damage.
Science! Science! Science!
I just finished reading Carol Deppe’s The Resilient Gardener
It’s sad to avoid grits, corn flakes, tortilla chips, etc… but that’s really our only option unless we grow our own – or can prove the corn in our favorite products isn’t GMO.
Sick.
UPDATE 2015:
Thus far, I’ve grown Hickory King, Tex Cuban, Floriani and Heirloom blue corn in my test plots. The Hickory King and the Tex Cuban both do quite well in Florida. If you’re not addicted to RoundUp, I recommend growing these classic heirloom dent corn varieties organically and then making your own grits, corn meal, etc. and staying away from Frankencorn.
The dent corns take quite a long season to produce, but they also produce a lot of biomass for your compost pile or silage for your animals.
Avoiding cross contamination isn’t easy, however; corn is wind-pollinated. If you have a neighbor growing another variety – likely a GMO corn variety – the pollen can get into your garden as well. Keep your eyes open.
When you grow your own corn, you grow something beautiful and save the genetics of past Americans working long ago on maize and bringing it forward into the staple crop it is today. Somewhere we lost the plot and jumped into the lab and left the past behind – and that’s a big loss for everyone.
6 responses to “GMO Corn vs. Organic Corn”
Not convinced yet? How about the fact that GM corn may effect fertility?
GM corn is that by which fertility occurs? Amazing… how did we live without it?
(Obnoxious language person scores a Gotcha on David with the old effect/affect thing.)
It's OK, I'm sure it was just a typo. Right?
I can never tell the difference between the two. It's always just a guess for me.
I should've written "defect" fertility…
i'm more worried about the GM cotton. one in 5 (some say one in four) males are infertile already, unknown causes. if we make ourselves infertile, it's a self-correcting problem, right? then another culture will come along that won't be too stupid not to poison themselves. but if we have no cotton then we will be naked!!
actually, isn't it the glyphosphate that affects fertility? how about the idea that all that corn and soy goes to feed our livestock, then fed to us…at who knows what the cost.
sometimes being a naked vegan sounds good.
Judging by how overweight many men and women are these days, I'm not surprised by the rising infertility rate. A lot of these things seem to go together.
"sometimes being a naked vegan sounds good"
Better as a concept, rather than in real life.
(Side note: the Internet is a weird, weird place.)
Study after study in the past few years has shown that Americans are the sickest people in the "developed" world. Amazing that so few of us have bothered to connect the dots. Most would prefer to just let the government and their corporate masters do their thinking for them.
I just wished I knew what to do about it!! ♀️♀️