01-17-2014, 07:57 PM
quote:I agree that you have to be very careful in your land selection and agree that the risk from choosing very poorly would outweigh the risk from GMO currently on the market. Luckily, soil sampling isn't very difficult.
Originally posted by Midnight Rambler
quote:Well, there's your mistake right there. There's probably a much greater risk in eating corn grown on former sugarcane or pineapple lands due to all the horribly toxic pesticides that used to be sprayed on them and still persist in the soil, than from anything in the GMOs or the safer chemicals currently used.
Originally posted by Permie
I'm moving to Hawaii to get away from this stuff for the sake of my children. I want to be able to grow as much of my own food as possible because make no mistake, pesticides ARE poison.