Seriously...are you just going to dig up 2-3 articles about your agenda per day to post here? Nevermind this helps no gardener here. What gardener is on this forum wondering whether they should plant organic or GMO soy? NO ONE. You just want to circle-jerk about your Hot Topics worthy let's talk about GMOs and chemical agriculture in an organic forum stuff...especially since you're being called out on it. The worst part is you're ill-advised and have ill knowledge of the subject and crutch on Google to counter any point made when you're not ignoring or dismissing facts brought up by others. Your lack of knowledge about the subject leads you on wild Google chases where you can't tell if something is legit information or even applies to what you think it's talking about. Combine that with your "I must always be right" thing you have going and it creates a disservice to science, common sense, and this board a lot more than it should. Here's your activity in the past year on the Organic Forum...all of it... In Press new research - testing of organic and gmo soybeans abc News - Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free Recent Oregon M.S. thesis - turkey feed New York Times article - organic wine growing (about pesticides in French wine) abc News - Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free GMO cancer paper to be retracted New Report about dangers of Round UP Another gmo problem? Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content GMO advocates lost a round Of bindweed and Roundup Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases An interesting article (about glyphosate) Spray damage from neighbors? a good meta-analysis of organic vs conventional outputs Interview on Fox News concerning labeling GMOs Article- Why Honey Bees Are Dying A Scientific Bombshell Dropped This Week Spreading GM wheat Link Between Organic Foods and Autism Horticultural Myths removing transgenes More Helpful Fatty Acids Found in Organic Milk ----- alternatives to pressure-treated wood for raised beds Corn meal vs. southern blight (again) Verticulum Wilt II International Organic Fruit Symposium I separated out the 4 on the bottom because they are actually pertaining to helping others with their gardens even though the "Corn meal" one is just you telling someone else to not trust one of their sources because of something you dug up on Google and the "Verticulum Wilt" one is you defining a "biocontrol" and telling them to use Google searches for more information. You want to talk about agendas now? Propaganda? By the way...Food Chemistry is an Elsevier journal and you signed an online pledge (which you were so proud of you posted it here to show it to us) to boycott them on a website that promotes AIDS denial, the power of water to cure disease, and flu vaccines causing cancer/heart disease/etc...because you want your name on that for some reason. You can't even keep you hypocrisy in check. You should search Google for "hypocrisy" in case you need someone to tell you what it is. This post was edited by nc-crn on Fri, Jan 3, 14 at 20:52

The consumer must educate themselves. Obviously there exists widely varying opinions and deep emotions on the subject of GM foods as well as sources of information on the subject. Let there be a broad, bright source of light whose source is rooted in science rather than emotion and opinion shining out across the world. What precious little research on GMOs in food I've seen in refereed journals doesn't make a good case for consuming GMOs but I haven't seen nearly enough to conclude that they are a threat to my diet. Much more work needs to be done for me to make a rational, knowledge based decision. In the meantime, this country needs to get it's feces congregated and institute COOL, Country of Origin Labeling at the very least, if we can't get that done there is no hope for trying to get GM labeling. The thought of eating produce from China is both sickening and a tad frightening considering their environmental laws and regs..

This country is great. I am free to buy from whoever I want. I am the boss, and so are each of you. You can't get mad just because a lot of other people want to buy something from a corporation you don't like. It's freedom! If we didn't want to buy, the corporation would go away within weeks. This system is so close to perfect that the truly greedy cannot stand it. I freek'n love this country! And I love the people that run WalMart, Monsanto, Exxon, etc. They have made us all rich compared to the rest of the world and our ancestors, and they have made it possible to help so many other people because of this wealth that 100 years ago it would not even be imaginable. God bless America!

I love what you are doing. It's a special assignment, a calling, to grow very rare seeds. Plus, you're supporting your local garden club and community. Kids are so disconnected from their food sources! In order to pm each other you have to edit your set up page. Then you click on the person's username you want to contact (example: Lisa) and then click on Message. If you get your Houzz email forwarded to your personal account you can't just hit "reply". You need to go back to Houzz. It's different--but without Houzz this site would have been toast long ago. In fact, Houzz is adding more plant-related information. We've proven to be an asset. http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3371179/attention-newbies-please-read?n=147 Heidi