The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on November 28, 2011, 07:41:57 pm
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Dan was in Tesco this eening and they were selling "boneless rib of beef". Work that one out ::)
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it's a bit like the label i found on an egg box - may contain traces of egg?? ;D
who thinks them up
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Its livestock secretly producing genetically modified 'food' to save their own skins ;)
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I still look for the rice packet with ' may contain human dna ' on the label ! Pork is an iffy one , most pork is fed soy bean/meal now , and as 85-90% is gm , a pork chop would have to say ' may contain pork ! ' it may contain ' fish , sheep , cow , human , or any other gm added substance they decide to use !
Lab grown meat ? , is only 4 or 5 years away so they say . What on earth will they put on the label then ?
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No wonder we prefer to have our own
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gm crops are disease resistant not as you have suggested rusty protein from other sources
is lab grown meat not here already i remember years ago the headlines :farmer:
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Yes thats right , it is still up to the farmer/smallholder to check that any bought in feed , is gm free . Sadly a lot of maize and soy (most in fact !) grown in usa , is in fact gm !
Unless you trust your feed suppliers to supply gm free feed , then the only way to go is , grow your own feed , or buy from a local farmer who is gm free .
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Unless you trust your feed suppliers to supply gm free feed , then the only way to go is , grow your own feed , or buy from a local farmer who is gm free .
It's getting harder and harder to source GM-free. Our local supplier used to be but has dropped it - it had become very difficult to be certain everything was GM-free, and any contamination would affect all their feeds, so they've had to give up the certification. They do still do organic, which of course is GM-free plus.
It seems to me to be an unstoppable train. :(