I suspect some health problems have to do with the fertility of our soil and not just how much we exercise or how hard we work. When the glazier's existed they ground large rocks and deposited lots of trace minerals. Many of those I believe have been used up. If the world is a perfect system another ice age will occur and deposit new minerals for the ones we used up. This is an interesting article http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130807134127.htm The longest lived people (hunza) exist in an area where glacial milk water is their only water source. Their fruit trees do not have the diseases ours do. They do not have the diseases we do. I believe many of our minerals were washed out to see which is likely why seafood is known to be very healthy for us to eat. Similarly the Mount ST Helen eruption deposited trace minerals around the eruption site and in small quantities those trace minerals increase crop quality and amount http://journals.lww.com/soilsci/Abstract/1983/03000/THE_INFLUENCE_OF_MOUNT_ST__HELENS_VOLCANIC_ASH_ON.10.aspx. In some areas people purchase substances such as azomite to bring trace minerals back up to acceptable amounts in their soil http://www.azomite.com/ Back to gmo's or even hybrids for a minute we know hybrid corn cannot uptake all the minerals normal open pollinated corn does. The results of not up taking minerals is disease for lack such as is the case with cobalt http://www.equiworld.net/horses/horsecare/feeding/articles/o/traceminerals.htm Cobalt is not something you want to go without http://www.mineraldeficiency.net/cobalt-deficiency Here is a link that might be useful: hunza

""Decreasing competition from weeds (nutrients, moisture or sunlight) increases crop yields everything else being equal. RR plants allow a producer to control a broad spectrum of weeds with a single pass thus decreasing input costs, increasing profits and making the farm more efficient. This is basic agriculture 101 that a twelve year old farm kid learns." " Some weeds like Dandelion, Yellow Dock, ragweed, etc., etc., tap into minerals and water reservoirs to bring nutrients to the top to other vegetables and killing them is dumb anyways. Poison the ground for something you need anyways is what you'll be doing and spending tons to give the plants alternatives to what these companion plants have to give. They did a study where planting corn with one type of weed, can't remember which one maybe ragweed, made the corn grow better without need of as much fertilizers, but of course some of the room to plant will be taken over by the weeds. You have to give to receive, so in an organic garden, you get a little more of everything, but not great amounts per acre of one thing unless you have stacked raised beds like the pyramid type of beds that go up to 5 levels high making the most out of a small space. It's the only guarantee. Weeds are not necessarily a good thing, but if they attract beneficial insects, which is the only cure for some types of bug infestations resistant, like the squash vine borer or others like it, you will use more space planting the plant that helps attract the beneficials and get less yields, but better than no yields from the infestation.

The following was stated: "Glyphosate breakdown via heat produces mostly aminomethylphosphonic acid, carbon monoxide/dioxide, amino acids, and water/vapor...similar to microbe breakdown, but a lot faster. ." H.Kuska comment. I am aware of the microbe breakdown products, but I am not aware of any references that state that the thermal breakdown is similar. The melting point of glyphosate is nearly 230 degrees C. That would be nearly 446 degrees F. This is the main thermal paper that I have been able to find so far. Unfortunately it does not identify the glyphosate decomposition products. Howver, it appears to me that very little glyphosate would actually decompose in normal hosehold use. The first observed decomposition product is: "By analyzing the infrared spectrum of the sample which is processed by rising temperature to 260 C at the heating rate of 6 C min-1, the most possible group loss in this stage may be methylene. Moreover, the mass loss in the first stage by TGA is in accordance with the mass loss of a group of methylene in the molecular of glyphosate." Then. "With the temperature increased, the second stage appeared the exothermic peak after a smaller main endothermic peak, and the lost mass had continued, which indicated that this stage might occur burning phase, thus exothermic phenomenon occurred. By analyzing the infrared spectrum of the sample which is processed by rising temperature to 360 C at the heating rate of 6 Cmin-1, the most possible group loss in this stage may be the group of carbonyl. Moreover, the mass loss in the second stage by TGA is in accordance with the mass loss of a carbonyl in the molecular of glyphosate." Now Canola Oil has a smoke point of around 238 degrees C, so I doubt that the glyphosate is breaking down very much in normal Canola Oil use. http://www.culinary-yours.com/frying_oil.html Of course, if you can document your answer, I am willing to look at the reference. Here is a link that might be useful: link to thermal study

It's not there anymore, but I recollect that the OP originally brought up GMOs. I'm pretty sure that's what floral was responding to. It's not there anymore. Can an OP modify a post without a "last modified" sticker going on it? I guess so. I have to assume that the OP agreed that GMOs were irrelevant, and deleted it from that post. But responses to it could not be deleted. The OP determines what forums their post goes to. See way up top. Any responses to that original post go to all of the forums specified by the OP. This is NOT just the Canadian seed trading forum, though that forum was included in the distribution by the OP. I don't think there is a way to reply to just one of the forums that the OP posted to.