Tuesday, August 21, 2012

what does volunteer industrial corn look like?

a last minute call before i left work had an errand attached to it that took me to the supermarket which has the bean field next to it...i had been surmising about industrial corn being genetically modified to lose viability after one season to deter seed saving and make farmers toe the line on the one crop licensing automatically and this seemed like a good time to see how the volunteers in the bean field were doing...i can see hybrid seeds losing viability after a few generations but this is fairly extreme to me...long, stringy husks with no ears..warped, distorted stems...cobs with tassels but no husks or kernels...none of it was ever going to be edible straight out of the field but this is something else...pretty much science ( or, at least, science driven technology ) in the service of the input providers...a perversion of food...the more i look at this stuff the more it creeps me out.

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