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*Edit* Lol, just reread the article and it is from 2011...wow, am I ever behind. Is the ordinance still in place? How are things working out? Sorry for the stupidity, lol.
Last edited by Alaskan_Adventurer; 05-01-2013 at 01:17 PM..
It's more a statement than carrying any actual effect (the ordinances). The claim by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture is that foods sold anywhere but at your stand in front of the farm have to be just perfect. They want people to spend tens of thousands on preparation facilities, etc., that are way beyond the production level of small farms. Yet the largest "good" producers put out the most infected foods that cause "nationwide" outbreaks. You got to be reasonably careful, of course, with any bacteria-carrying product like raw milk, fowl, etc. Go to your grocery store, though, and you're buying crap hog-full of antibiotics that are resulting in resistant bacterial strains (e.g., last year's 'turkey burger' fiasco), and investigators have discovered that THOSE foods are more likely to cause illness than organic foods due to the mutated bacteria growing antibiotic resistant. Add that to all the chemicals added and "polish" and everything else, we just grow our own. Got 30 meat birds yesterday. 8 weeks and off to "freezer camp."
I have been doing some reading about natural, macrobiotic, GMO and hybrid foods. It all tastes good to me. See if there is a flaw in my logic. It makes sense to me.
If a perfume manufacturer makes a scent and we do not pay for the scent, but we smell it anyway, are we liable? That's what Monsanto is saying if a piece of pollen they modified drifts with the wind and lands in some farmer's field. There is an old princile of law; No harm, no foul. It would be one thing if a farmer broke into a Monsanto warehouse and stole a bag of seed. It is another thing entirely if Monsanto's unwanted GMO pollen drifts with the wind and contaminates a farmer's crop against his will!
I have been doing some reading about natural, macrobiotic, GMO and hybrid foods. It all tastes good to me. See if there is a flaw in my logic. It makes sense to me.
If a perfume manufacturer makes a scent and we do not pay for the scent, but we smell it anyway, are we liable? That's what Monsanto is saying if a piece of pollen they modified drifts with the wind and lands in some farmer's field. There is an old princile of law; No harm, no foul. It would be one thing if a farmer broke into a Monsanto warehouse and stole a bag of seed. It is another thing entirely if Monsanto's unwanted GMO pollen drifts with the wind and contaminates a farmer's crop against his will!
An average farmer, might see benefit from his crop being pollinated with GMO and becoming roundup resistant, or carrying an extra level of pesticide within.
Or if he caters to Organic crops, he might see massive harm done to his crops by GMO contamination.
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