Saturday, December 11, 2010

OMG! GMO spelt backwards!

Everyday, another GMO crop is approved,  it is sooooooo critical to expand our circle of heirloom farmers and natural food production. Ambrosia Farms has been 100% heirloom and heritage since we first began farming in 1980s! GMOs are being let out into our food system. 
How will we be able to stop cross contamination? "Oh my God, we need to expand our CSA CIRCLE!
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"Alfalfa
- developed by Monsanto and Forage Genetics
- owned by the Land O’Lakes
 — contains a gene that makes the plant resistant to the herbicide Roundup.
-allows farmers to spray the chemical to kill weeds without hurting the crop."
"Alfalfa is grown mostly to make hay fed to dairy cows and horses. More than 20 million acres are grown in the United States; it is the nation’s fourth-largest crop by acreage, behind corn, soybeans and wheat, with a value of about $8 billion. About 1 percent of alfalfa is organic.
as reported by nytimes.com
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"Corn
-developed by Syngenta
-contains a microbial gene that causes it to produce an enzyme that breaks down corn starch into sugar, the first step toward making ethanol.
-Ethanol manufacturers now buy this enzyme, called alpha amylase, in liquid form and add it to the corn at the start of their production process."
If this corn is comingled with other corn, it will have significant adverse impacts on food product quality and performance,” the North American Millers’ Association said in a statement on Friday.
The decision, announced Friday, came in the face of objections from corn millers and others in the food industry, who warned that if the industrial corn cross-pollinated with or were mixed with corn used for food, it could lead to crumbly corn chips, soggy cereal, loaves of bread with soupy centers and corn dogs with inadequate coatings."
 as reported  by nytimes.com 2/10/2011