The Agrarian's Alcove

I have had some people ask me about GMO’s, and to clarify some things. I have written a post about being #ProGMO and about the Non-GMO Project , but they’re from when I was first getting the blog started, and I feel like I can do better. So in researching more, I have found about a million articles on how GMO’s are bad… but guess what? All of the articles are from 2010-2015. It’s 2018 yall!!! They clearly have no new cases to make. If you go through the articles they often mention studies that are vague or seemingly biased; that say more research needs to be done, and other things that are ambiguous. I will say, I was actually impressed with this WebMD article . It was on point, unbiased, and told you to make your own decisions. So let’s take a look at what others have to say. The Natural Society website had some awful, awful things to say about GMO’s. They claim that GMO’s are linked to more than 22 diseases. The study they use is from the Journal of Organic Systems. While ...

Okay people, listen up! It's the beginning of the school year and we are all trying to pack the perfect healthy lunches for ourselves, our kids, and/or our significant others. So I found out recently that Dannon (yes, the company we have all gotten yogurt from at some point in our life) has teamed up with an organization and has turned a section of their company completely against GMO’s. For this segment of their business, Dannon is not even allowing the cows from which their dairy comes from to be fed GMO corn. Hooray for the Non-GMO Project right??  Wrong.  Fact: 142 types of corn are Genetically Modified.  Fact: on the Non-GMO Project website,they only mention good things about Genetically Engineered (GE) corn.  The website lists that GMO corn is more heat tolerant as well as drought stress resistant  (anyone from Texas or California appreciate that?) . Do you know what that means? It means that in a drought we can use less water to prod...