Friday, July 30, 2021

go gmo ( the times says so )

"you never know what is enough unless you know waht is more than enough"-william blake_______________
i cannot dispute that this gmo tomato has twice the anti-oxidants of ( one supposes ) a comperable volume of blueberries...and i cannot dispute the value of anti-oxidants...up to a a point...they would seem to be a pharmakon to some degree...materials from harvard health and the national center for complemantary and integrative health tell me that large doses of anti-oxidant suplements can exacerbate lung cancer in smokers as well as prostate cancer and a type of stroke...it might have benefited cancer prone mice...humans aren't mice...vitamin c and vitamin e, as well as green tea, all contain anti-oxidants...my question ( which i have not found an answer to yet ) is at what point does the body slough off anti-oxidants in the same way it sloughs off vitamins it cannot use and i can assure you that my body is adept at sloughing off green tea when i drink it ( which is regularly )...so is there an actual point to increasing anti-oxidants by splicing genes from snap dragons into a tomato? humans have been monkeying around with plant genetics for thousands of years by cross breeding plants...could you cross breed a tomato and a snap dragon using just their pollen? my skepticism is aroused here...crossing varies of tomatoes or maize or beans utilizing just their pollen and stamens i will buy...i am willing to wager it dosen't always work either...monsanto splicing in genes from who knows where to make their dense yellow #2 resistant to herbicide ( and that corn ends up in all sorts of processed foods in the supermarket ) is not in the same category in my estimation...this tomato isn't either...jenifer kohn may not be shilling for monsanto...she is shilling for the wholly unnatural...i will be sticking to heirloom seed.

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