There’s also no evidence that GMO food is harmful to humans in any way.

OP, you’ll have several choices when looking through the tomato plants at the box stores. They will either be hybrid or heirloom, and determinate vs indeterminate.

- A hybrid is created when plant breeders intentionally cross-pollinate two different varieties of a plant, with the outcome being an offspring, or hybrid that contains the best traits of each of the parents.

- Heirlooms are open pollinated and have stable genetics. The seeds from the fruits produced will produce the same plant as the parent plant. If you want to save seeds, you’ll want to grow heirlooms.

- Determinate varieties grow to a fixed mature size and then stop producing. Typically called bush type.

- Indeterminate varieties will continue to grow and produce throughout the growing season. They are called vining type.

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Posted by notsince98

KC, MO

Member since Oct 2012

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Posted on 3/30/22 at 9:22 am to PillageUrVillage

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There’s also no evidence that GMO food is harmful to humans in any way.

That is patently false. There are tons of studies around the world providing "evidence." If you want to say it isn't "proven," that would probably be acceptable.

The issues come when you take selective breeding GMO food and use that to cover for GMO food that was genetically altered by splicing genes. But even then, selective breeding has been very damaging to food. Just read the book on the history of wheat and why wheat from places like Italy is so much safer than wheat grown in the USA. Even people with celiac can eat Italian wheat with no issues most of the time.

It literally takes 5 minutes to search for thousands of peer reviewed studies and experiments showing detrimental impacts of gene splicing food.

This post was edited on 3/30/22 at 9:23 am

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