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To: mountainlion
The trouble with the feral pollen story is that it's not possible. While pollen from one soybean plant can theoretically cross pollinate another (and it really is only theoretical because soybeans are almost entirely self pollinating) all of the bean plants in one field would never, ever, be pollinated by plants in a different field...and virtually all of the plants would have to be so pollinated for there to be any benefit.

The story was originally made up by a farmer who purchased soybeans he knew to have been “Round-Up Ready” from the local elevator and planted them, thinking he had avoided paying the license fee.

24 posted on 04/03/2013 11:13:16 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
There is also a story about a pig farmer that had to kill maybe somewhere around 1000 pigs that EPA? said were Feral. Obama has generated so much distrust against government that these stories sure seem true and are not easily proved/disproved by an average person on the Internet. GM corn has been said to be traced to tacos and food in Mexico even. Corn can cross pollinate can't it. There was a story about “scientists” had detected ground bacteria in the air at 10,000 feet so pollen could theoretically travel around the world.
27 posted on 04/03/2013 11:32:00 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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