Heirloom seeds, hybrid seeds, organic, non-organic, and (GMO).
2 min read“Does all the talk about heirloom seeds, hybrid seeds, organic, non-organic, and genetically modified organisms (GMO), make your head spin? You’re not alone.
Katzcradul, a host on ‘The Homestead Honey Hour’, at American Preppers Radio, says her listeners have lots of questions about what GMO means, and are trying to figure out exactly what impact it might have on their day-to-day lives.
On Katzcradul’s show, which aired Thursday, April 5th, she was able to provide some answers to
the questions folks have about the perplexing subject of GMO. In the course of the program, she explained exactly what a GMO is, who’s creating them, how they do it, and the tremendous effort they’re putting forth to ensure their products have a place of prominence in the American diet.
Katzcradul pulled no punches. She named the big-agri companies who profit from selling seeds that grow into plants that produce their own insecticide. BT corn is one example. She explains that when we eat products made from this corn (or eat meat from animals that have eaten it), that we too are ingesting the insecticide. She told listeners of the many serious health problems we’re experiencing related to consumption of GM foods.
She also mentioned the names of food companies that are in bed with big-agri, using gm foods in their products. She recommend if listeners want to minimized the effects of gm foods in their diets, that they plant a garden, and grow as much of their own food as possible. She also said that another good place to start, if you want to transition away from gm foods, is to make your own salad dressings, since the key ingredient in commercially prepared varieties is soybean oil, a genetically modified food. She concluded, by rallying her listeners to ‘push back’ and not sit idly by while big-agri conspires to control our food supply.”
Visit the homestead Honey Hour on American Preppers Radio!
Visit Katzcradul YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/katzcradul
Quick question, heirloom seed vs. organic what is the difference? Wouldn’t an organic naturally be heirloom? Sorry, I didn’t hear the program.
An heirloom seed is simply an open polinated or OP seed. It is a seed that if planted will come up true to it’s parentage. A hybrid seed will not come up true to its parentage, if you plant a hybrid tomato seed that you have saved from a hybrid tomato you will still get a tomato but it won’t be true to it’s type like the plant you picked it from. Organic is a method of growing the vegetable. Use of artificial fertilizers or insecticides is prohibited in organic methods. As soon as you use anything organic (no matter how little or small) you product becomes non-organic. It used to be that you had to be chemical free for two years to be considered organic.
Heirloom refer to the type of seed, generally one that has been around 100 years or more that consistently produces a fruit that looks and taste the same from year to year. It’s tried and true.
Organic refers to methodology. It is to grow a plant (that has not been genetically modified),without herbicides or pesticides either applied topically or in the soil.