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To: tiki

Now that’s scary. I don’t buy the hybrids cause you can’t take the seeds from the veggie, like tomato and such and grow another plant. Wouldn’t that be kinda the same thing though? I mean if they get a diseases and there is a mass whip out of hybrid veggie plants, that’s it.


19 posted on 05/14/2011 6:34:56 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: MsLady

The long and short of it is heirloom seeds are more susceptable to disease than hybrids.

Hybrids would be like breeding people or animals to get the best result.

GM would be like taking the offspring and putting in a gene that made them all have blue eyes.

Hybrid seeds can regrow but you will not get the parent plant, you will get one of the grandparent plants. Whatever strengths you got from the hybridization would be lost.

Genetically Modified seeds also grow and they retain the traits that were modified. Which is why Monsanto is so strict because they charge so much for the seed and they sure don’t want you saving any of it.


22 posted on 05/14/2011 6:57:51 AM PDT by tiki
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