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Eldon (WA)

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We grow and sell produce roadside. Today my wife said a lady took an ear of our sweet corn and held a (necklace) chain over it. Said if it turned one direction it was GMO LOL! What is this world coming too???
 
GMO is a genetically modified organism is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
Such as roundup ready seed, seed corn does have some seed that is genetically modified against blight and other ailments, I have not heard of any sweet corn that is roundup ready
 
If that really worked, the idea might would be worth a lot of money. I would have asked how it worked.
Assuming it worked I could see millions of people buying it. Maybe you should have ripped out of her hand and suffered the consequences later.
If it worked, I am sure Bob or JDMaris would have chimed. Thinking again about it; I have to think it about how it might work. Will report back with a new approved model with batteries and a digital read out attached to the necklace.
 
I guess you insulted her and told her what an Idiot she was because she didn't want to buy GMO corn drenched in chemicals?Good way to get repaeat customers.If I was still selling sweet corn I'd have a huge sign up NON GMO.Many consumers actively look for Non GMO some don't care but have NEVER heard anyone ASK for GM anything.
 
I guess she had one of those new DNA-sequencing necklaces.

It's easy to poke fun of the New Age crystal-power crowd, but you see plenty of luddite nonsense everywhere including posts here on YT. A while back our local paper published an article raising health concerns about "smart" meters (power meters that have wireless communication back to the utility). I had to respond, asking why they weren't telling people to get rid of their cell phones, microwave ovens and WiFi, which all operate on the same frequencies as those supposedly deadly meters.
 
I guess you were lucky your corn is Non GMO or she
would have went back to her car and got out the pins
and farmer VOO-DOO doll.

Kirk
 
Check out Seminis. There are several others also. Read on NAT that RR sweet corn is being used. Its very expensive though. The last paragraph in the link gives some detail.
Seminis
 
Your terminology "drenched in chemicals" doesn"t add any credibility to your rant. That"s why it"s called a rant.
 
Really? Ridiculing your customers is pretty stupid for any reason if you're in the business of selling something why would you care why they're buying? Marketing 101 is find out why and do more of it.
 
Yes I think she was goofy, but remember the days when we all thought that lead in gas was perfectly fine, and asbestos was the best stuff around, and DDT was the perfect problem-solver, and benzene fumes wouldn't hurt a woman????
 
i've been growing the seminis obsession 2 sweet corn for the past couple years. i really like it. put in 5 rows along the headlands with the field corn.

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I didn't see anything in Eldon's post about insulting or ridiculing the woman. I suspect Eldon and wife have been dealing with the public long enough to know when to hold their tongues.
 
It sure looks good. Do you apply nitrogen the same amount as field corn? Is there an online site with seed price? I have no problem eating it. LOL
 
(quoted from post at 02:41:47 08/08/14) Quite a leap of logic from the OP's post to your rant.
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A huge leap....just because we laugh at the antics of a customer later in no way relates to how we treat them. We just thought it was a strange way to check for GMO...
 
(quoted from post at 05:59:09 08/08/14) I didn't see anything in Eldon's post about insulting or ridiculing the woman. I suspect Eldon and wife have been dealing with the public long enough to know when to hold their tongues.
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Yeah...and sometimes are tongues are bloody by the time a customer leaves ! :roll:
 
Guess that is better then the gal picking up your sweet corn and taking a bite out of it and setting it back on your table and walking off! Had it done few years back at market.
 
"GMO" corn was on the movie Planet of the Apes.....("Gorilla" Modified Organism) So I guess it will be around for a while ;)
 
Lead in gas was a lot better than what replaced it: Aromatics-organic compounds based on the benzene ring, a 6-carbon ring with 3 delocalised double bonds, e.g., benzene, toluene, xylene, etc. Olefines-organic compounds which have double bonds. After combustion, one critical by-product is 1,3-butadiene. Oxygenates-organic compounds containing oxygen molecules such as methane, ethane or MTBE (methyl-tertiary-butyl ether).The US Environmental Protection Agency has targeted five toxic air pollutants-benzene and 1,3-butadiene are the top two on the list. They are both highly carcinogenic substances. butadiene has only just come to international attention.

Abestos only gets you if you breathe the dust, My Dad and several million others wore Asbestos filled flak jackets nearly 24/7/365 in the South Pacific during that littel dust up known as World War II, it saved a lot of lives. DDT was a nearly perfect problem solver, Rachel Carson could be called one of the most prolific mass murderers in history due to her success in having DDT banned world wide, since that time untold millions, a large percentage of them women and Children, have died in Subsaharan Africa and other parts of the world from insect borne diseases that were formerly kept under control by use of DDT.

I never heard the saying that benzene fumes wouldn't hurt a woman, but see above, benzene is what you get more of with unleaded fuel and catalytic converters as opposed to leaded fuel.
 
I heard all my life that sweet corn would cross pollinate with the field corn if grown close together, I'm guessing yours don't or you would not be doing it.
 
Basically it is. Just like cattle. Do you think black and white cows that give 5 gallons of milk a day occur "naturally"? Or black cows with no horns are a natual occurance? They are the result of genetic modification through selective breeding.
 
(quoted from post at 05:56:06 08/08/14) I love now that a lot of people seem to think that Hybrid corn is GMO!!!!!
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Well...it sorta is.

The difference is how you get to the final product. Hybrids are selectively bred to get the results you want. The genes are being modified but it's mother nature doing the work.

GMO skips the selective breeding step and just modifies the genes in a lab to get the result you want.

One way or another things are being modified. My concern with GMO is more a long term one. When you get many years of crosses released in the wild what's going to happen? It's not the short term what goes in my mouth stuff...

Re: the OP. That's pretty funny!

K
 
(quoted from post at 11:14:59 08/08/14) You and Dan are both wrong regarding hybridization and selective breeding. Neither is GMO.
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I don't think either of us said that.

I can only speak for my self but what I was saying is genes are getting modified in both, it' just one is through direct human intervention. Kind of pointing out how "Genetically modified organism" is really kind of a broad term.

No, Hybrids are not "GMO". Just thought I was adding a little to the conversation.

I have no issues with hybrids or any other selective breeding, mans been doing it since he first turned soil over.

K
 
everything that goes on the field corn goes on the sweet corn. being roundup resistant, it stays clean of weeds. it pollinates way earlier than the field corn, so no problem there.
 
(quoted from post at 11:20:36 08/08/14)
(quoted from post at 11:14:59 08/08/14) You and Dan are both wrong regarding hybridization and selective breeding. Neither is GMO.
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I don't think either of us said that.

I can only speak for my self but what I was saying is genes are getting modified in both, it' just one is through direct human intervention. Kind of pointing out how "Genetically modified organism" is really kind of a broad term.

No, Hybrids are not "GMO". Just thought I was adding a little to the conversation.

I have no issues with hybrids or any other selective breeding, mans been doing it since he first turned soil over.

K
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....and took a chick of a different color or race to bed...with GMO he would have to take monkey to bed....
 
I can't agreee. Lead is persistant in the environment. Pb gets in the soil and on food it is very toxic, and studies show that even very low levels (5 micorgrams/deciliter) in children can cause developmental problems. Unlike lead, the aromatics delute and degrade quickly in the environment. Not a lot of evidence infrequent low level exposures present much risk. Certianly it does not accumulate in body tissues or bone like lead does. That does not mean accute or cronic exposures can't kill you. You are completely correct about asbestos, but how are you going to mine it, manufacture it into some product, itstall it or remove it without breathing it ? DDT works great, wished I had some.
 
The original flak jackets were nothing more than nylon vests with steel plates sewn inside. That is the first I have heard they were filled with asbestos. My brother was a AA gunner on a destroyer during WW2.
 
Glenn Did they make you sign an agreement that you would not sell any of the seed from the bag. Made me agree to not let anyone else have any of the seed. Seems some co=0p were taking a bag and selling small amounts of the seed. For some reason they want to keep it full bag sales. I had no problem but sure made a big deal out of it.
 
My Dad told me the flak jackets were filled with Abestos and since he was in the Pacific theatre from June of 42 until December of 45 I think I will take his word for it.
 
First you say it sorta is", then you say it isn"t. I read your article- it talks about inserting new genome material into an organism. It"s actually a good description, but it isn"t what you claimed.
 
Now that I have your attention, life jackets, were filled with either balsa, kapok or foam during ww2. Never asbestos. Mae wests where filled with air. Flak jackets where just as I said. Do not take my word for it. Look it up. I respect your fathers service. Perhaps you misunderstood him. All of my older brothers served during ww2. I have seen and handled many types of life jackets. I lived for years in Tampa, a large sea port and ship repair.
I don't know how old you are but I remember ww2
very clearly. I lived through it.
And no, I am not a abundant.
 
Look, before you go to much further think about what you are saying. That after ripping through the sides of an aircraft that an asbestos filled jacket was going to stop the flak. That asbestos is bullet prof. I have handled a lot of asbestos back in the 1950s. It won't stop a bullet. We used to wrap the exhaust flanges on Air Sea Rescue boats with asbestos. It won't stop flak.
 
Your the one who said that life jackets were filled with abestos, not me, now your contradicting yourself?
 
(quoted from post at 21:34:28 08/08/14) My Dad told me the flak jackets were filled with Abestos and since he was in the Pacific theatre from June of 42 until December of 45 I think I will take his word for it.
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Lot of guys came back from WWII in Europe saying that it was against the rules of land warfare to fire a .50 machine gun at troops. Only aircraft and trucks and such. That rumor stayed around the US Army until the Army adopted the .50 sniper rifle. What happened was Patton in his drive across France ran short of .50. Now we had quad mount .50s in AA mounts. The Germans were still doing some ground attacks against rear area targets. Patton had his commanders orders troops not to shoot their .50's at troops stating that it was illegal.

So that may have been something that some joker started just by messing with a new guy that never questioned it. Maybe was a bit too busy fighting a war to think about it.

Rick
 
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