Message from @Grumplebee
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And they're no more "playing god" than convention breeding.
i dont aint gmo i'm pro common sense
Organic food tards hate GMOs, yet are fine with atomic gardening.
lol making corn that bugs dont want to eat is a bit different then making big bigger corn
Yes.
Less risky.
reports of corn growing in tree from gmo crows
Though I'm more interesting in heriloom produce. But that is almost always organic.
yes that the shit you want to eat
wut
crops*
BT delta endotoxin is a protein used by organic farmers for years.
It is selectively toxic to a select group of insects only in a certain stage of their life cycle.
Because modern produce has been created via various methods to increase crop yield and disease resistance. With flavor a distance third.
You could eat grams of the purified protein and nothing would happen.
true they do taste different
Don't get me started on tomatoes. Getting those to market is an interesting and involved process. Which is why store tomatoes taste much worse than garden ones.
Which is why organic farmers used BT.
i dont think they give the same nutrition as well
but the testing would be costly to prove it
Nutrition is fine, it is the taste I am sad about.
Tomatoes are berries, and designed to ripen and split open dropping seeds on the ground.
This means they have a shelf life of basically nothing.
i doubt organic farms use said protein i fallow alot in agi and ive never seen it used
@REEDSEEJBAMBAM They use the bacterium it is from.
So yes, they use the protein.
i'm not sure its a comman pratice
Probably because it's not very toxic.
Not as nasty as the metal based pesticides and nasty pyrethroids.
So they are picked green and transported closer to point of sale. At this point they are put in a room flooded with ethaline (i think) gas. This is a naturally produced gas that all fruits make. Which encourages the ripening process. Except this is exponentially more.
yeap
green house tomatoes or preserved is the way to go
Organic farmers can use metal based pesticides and nasty pyrethroids to their heart's content.
most don't
The ones I know all do.
You can replicate the process at home with a paper bag, a banana, and another fruit.
then there shitty at what they do or selling a lie for extra dallors
"Organic" pesticides are no less toxic than the ones farmers who aren't selling to yuppies and conspiracy theorists use.
But it flash ripens the fruit. Which doesn't chemically alter the fruit, but does make it taste nowhere near as good.