The Libby's Pumpkin Bread Mix is excellent. It's one of the things I look forward to in the Fall. I get it at Target, but it's also sold at Wal-Mart. It was on sale about a month ago for less than $3.
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I usually pay <$1 at Walmart or Kroger. It's rare for us to go through a complete dozen of eggs before they need to be replaced. I take it by spells to scramble one in the micro when I get home from work or if I want to dirty up a few more dishes I'll do it in a skillet. Over the holidays we will use more. Just got a coupon from Kroger for a free dozen.
Here is a recent article about the long-term effect of GMOs on the evolution of super-weeds.
“Just six years ago, in response to the onset of resistance to its marquee product, Roundup (active ingredient: glyphosate), Monsanto began selling a new generation of genetically modified seeds bred to resist both glyphosate and dicamba. By 2020, scientists had confirmed the existence of dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth. The agribusiness giant took a decade to develop that product line. The weeds caught up in five years.”
“Glyphosate’s use remains ubiquitous among growers, however. Even though it doesn’t work on all weeds anymore, the alternative — adopting a more integrated approach to weed control — would mean totally rethinking their operations.”
Imagine that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/magazine/superweeds-monsanto.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
GMO is a dead-end street lined on both sides with a waste-land.
“Just six years ago, in response to the onset of resistance to its marquee product, Roundup (active ingredient: glyphosate), Monsanto began selling a new generation of genetically modified seeds bred to resist both glyphosate and dicamba. By 2020, scientists had confirmed the existence of dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth. The agribusiness giant took a decade to develop that product line. The weeds caught up in five years.”
“Glyphosate’s use remains ubiquitous among growers, however. Even though it doesn’t work on all weeds anymore, the alternative — adopting a more integrated approach to weed control — would mean totally rethinking their operations.”
Imagine that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/magazine/superweeds-monsanto.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
GMO is a dead-end street lined on both sides with a waste-land.
also, the article isn't about the long term effects of GMOs on weeds. GMOs dont spread between different species of plant. in the article, the specific GMO plant was made with resistance to a pesticide, and the weed in question naturally evolved a resistance to said pesticide in a shorter time than it took for monsanto to develop the GMO.
I don’t disagree, Egress. But the issue of pesticides is inextricably intertwined with the pesticide industry. My post is a follow-up to an earlier conversation where I expressed my concern about GMOs specifically because they are created with only one set of goals—immunity from herbicides and pesticides that can then be broadcast indiscriminately. The long-term effects are the rapid and disastrous evolution of super-weeds and super-bugs.
GMOs are often advertised as having higher yield or greater vitality, but those goals are met by engineering chemical resistance, not by actually improving the plants.
This was off topic the first time, and I didn’t immediately notice the post was 2 years old, but this is conversation I still remember.
GMOs are often advertised as having higher yield or greater vitality, but those goals are met by engineering chemical resistance, not by actually improving the plants.
This was off topic the first time, and I didn’t immediately notice the post was 2 years old, but this is conversation I still remember.
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This summer I've been growing my own veggies.
Bibb lettuce, Musica pole beans, snow peas, blue lake beans, and a whole variety of tomatoes. Plus grapes, peaches, apples, pears, avocados, and figs. I don't use any herbicides or pesticides. And every spring I work compost in to the veggie patch, which I create here on site, from shredded clippings and kitchen waste. And the occasional avian or rodent offering the cat brings. Nothing goes to waste, if I can help it.
Bibb lettuce, Musica pole beans, snow peas, blue lake beans, and a whole variety of tomatoes. Plus grapes, peaches, apples, pears, avocados, and figs. I don't use any herbicides or pesticides. And every spring I work compost in to the veggie patch, which I create here on site, from shredded clippings and kitchen waste. And the occasional avian or rodent offering the cat brings. Nothing goes to waste, if I can help it.
likewise, we've always had a garden. never had to use herbicide or pesticide. We get some horse manure compost from a friend of ours in march and turn it into the preexisting soil already in the garden. seems to work pretty good, given the tomatos are ~6 feet tall.
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