Re: GMO in Developing Nations

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bruce Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>wrote:
>>>Bruce Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>>>>Boy do I know that .. anyone know anything that'll kill agapanthus ? :)
>>>Roundup should work fine.
>>Nope :)
>I have one in my garden, but I'm not trying it out for you.

I've tried it. I've tried grazon. No luck.

>What did you use, at what rate, timing and what additives if any.

A number of ways. 10 mL/L and 20. With penetrant and without. Cut and 
on leaves. No joy. It is not listed as being effective on em ... but I 
had some so tried it anyway.

>>>>>>Also doesn't allow for the 
>>>>>>seed companies simply putting the price up and controlling the food supply
>>> ...
>>>>>>does it ?
>>>>>They can do that now for hybrids, and have been able to for decades.
>>>>>Nothing new there then, but make it too dear and it's not worth growing,
>>>>>so you don't get to sell any seed.
>>>>.. not even if they add a terminator ? 
>>>I suspect you haven't understood what I said, above.
>>I understood it fine ... 

You are suggesting that the large sed companies already control the 
food. You are largely right ... but they are not chasing joe public if 
he doesn't use their seed and gets some pollen from their crops ... as 
some of the GE companies are doing. Do you not consider this a problem 
?

>Please explain what you thought I said.

OK ?

>>but it appears as though your trust in the 
>>multinationals is large ... while mine is not :)
>I have no direct trust for multinationals, nor for you.
>However, I have been trading with some for many decades and so I know
>how they behave. In practice, in a marketplace they don;t 100% control,
>quite well. Few, possibly none, have 100% control; not even hoover in
>vacuum cleaners.

Who ? :)

Bruce

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