I like your comment David, and I agree. I don't want to "carry water" for them anyway. All of these companies pay big money for the best lawyers and lobbyists. They need to help defending their actions. I take the position when pressed by folks who are not familiar with genetic engineering that I'm comfortable with the technique, but that I'm not sure I'm comfortable with how its being employed. I'd like to see more caution and more effort to give the public real answers to their questions about these products and about the way these techniques are used. I think they companies which employ GMOs don't feel they need to be accountable for the products they are putting into the marketplace. Every direct-market growers knows that they face accountability, like it or not, and must reconcile with it in some way. And while these companies do to, like it or not, I don't think they are being fair to the consumer in the marketplace by failing to make more effort to address their questi ons about their products. So I tell those folks who ask that I can't defend the products, not because I think they are unsafe, but because I don't agree with the way they are being introduced into the market.
Bill William H. Shoemaker Retired fruit and vegetable horticulturist University of Illinois wshoe...@illinois.edu ________________________________________ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] on behalf of David Doud [david_d...@me.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:53 AM To: Apple-Crop Subject: [apple-crop] arctic apples Well, I have been to two social events since the GMO 'Arctic apples' have been in the news - and that is what people want to talk to me about - and pretty much only that... How are you all handling this? My personal opinions aside, I don't want to 'carry water' for these guys - they aren't going to let me grow them even if I wanted to and I don't feel inclined to spend my time and credibility providing them cover and fighting their marketing struggle for them - This is going to be a frequently reoccurring issue this season - I've got an event to go to this afternoon and I am dreading this aspect of it - David Doud grower, IN below 0*F, way behind on pruning _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
