Comments on Danielles Garden Blog: Some Sunflowers Are Too Big

You forgot the major point about GMOs... They are ...

2010-06-11T15:33:55.059-04:00

You forgot the major point about GMOs... They are bread to resist pesticides/herbicides.

Meaning... a farmer can spray their whole crop with toxic chemicals and EVERYTHING will die except the GMO crop. Sounds too good to be true?

Of course. We eat this these chemicals and they are absorbed by the plant.

This all started with Agent Orange in Vietnam... and we have seen/heard about the effect of these chemicals. This chemical was soo great at killing foliage, why not use it on the stuff we eat? What a great idea!~

As the cancer rates rise, we wonder why this is so...

Why do all your sunflowers look drunk?

2010-06-11T04:46:14.390-04:00

Why do all your sunflowers look drunk?

This is such a huge issue these days - the Wall St...

2010-06-10T15:48:41.452-04:00

This is such a huge issue these days - the Wall Street Journal recently came out with this pretty interesting article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126862629333762259.html) debating the pros and cons of genetically modified seeds. As a foodie and avid gardener, I would love to say that I never use hybrids, but as a pressed for time human, sometimes the convenience factor gets me. I bought my eggplant seedlings from the nursery this year, and I'm nearly positive they're hybrids. On a moral level, though, I am completely against genetic modification, since many crops are bred to be sterile. In the old days, farmers used to save seeds from one generation to the next, but now, they're forced to buy new seeds every year. I don't think there's anything more hurtful to family and independent farmers than practically forcing them to start out the year in the hole to giant corporations like Monsanto. But, on a less cynical note - your sunflowers do look fantastic!