Quote:
|
Every food you eat has been altered by man to some degree or the other. If you wanted to grow a garden, every seed you buy is hybred seed. You cannot grow a crop next year from the seeds you harvest this year. The mega-agricultural giants (ei: Cargil, ConAgra etc.) make sure you have to come back to them next year to buy more seeds.
|
It's not a conspiracy on the part of the major seed producers. The problem is cross pollination. You get a superior plant the first year, but without VERY careful pollination, you will get squat the following year. (My father-in-law runs a 500+ acre produce farm, so set me straight when I asked him about simply keeping a few good plants for seeds..... Well, that and the time needed to de-seed enough plants to get enough for the next planting.)
Quote:
|
I think that considering those things sin is a bit over the top, but I don't think that man's fooling with the genetics of plants and animals is an improvement over God's creation. Seedless watermelons, oranges and grapes are probably not as good for you as the unaltered varieties.
|
Ok, on this point I very much doubt there is any nutritional difference between the two and even if there were it would be so minute as to be pointless. I personally LOVE eating oranges and grapefruits that genetic science has removed the seeds from.....