tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post7272657625009321827..comments2023-09-17T07:34:05.147-07:00Comments on The Blogging Bookworm: Book Review: Uncertain PerilGreen Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03133847111288382381noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-12968484057095684862008-08-03T20:12:00.000-07:002008-08-03T20:12:00.000-07:00theresa: Thanks for your comments. I think the "t...theresa: Thanks for your comments. I think the "terminator seed" technology is something a little different and the big-ag companies are not currently using it due to the outrage it generated. We need to watch them, though! You're right that it seems every topic is becoming very important!<BR/><BR/>Best of luck to you with your seed saving. I've done really well with peas and string beans, and I don't even know what I'm doing. :)Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08896172914500564208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-64644455666390877872008-08-02T17:27:00.000-07:002008-08-02T17:27:00.000-07:00I think I've heard those non-fertile seeds called ...I think I've heard those non-fertile seeds called "terminator" seeds, which may be more apt than the person/corporation who coined the term intended. <BR/><BR/>Saving seeds is something I'm trying to do more and more of. I grew some things this year in small batches just so I can save the seed. Every time I look out into a field of yellow GMO canola seed, I just shake my head. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for a this review of a book about such an important topic. It seems there are just no unimportant topics anymore, doesn't it?Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03908227916944431265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-2288967873793865222008-08-02T11:16:00.000-07:002008-08-02T11:16:00.000-07:00leslie: Thank you very much for your commments and...leslie: Thank you very much for your commments and explaination. You explained one of the great mysteries of my garden which is why my tomato "volunteers" never produce any veggies. <BR/><BR/>You're absolutely right that this is a really serious issue.Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08896172914500564208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-8541901156519784842008-08-02T08:07:00.000-07:002008-08-02T08:07:00.000-07:00Thanks for the review. This topic is far more seri...Thanks for the review. <BR/>This topic is far more serious than most people realize.<BR/>Say, for instance, you have a really delicious tomato plant in a pot on your patio. You want to grow and eat that tomato forever because it's so delicious.<BR/>You pick one of the nice tomatoes, and squish it, and save the seeds. Next year you plant those seeds, and you get lots of leaves and no tomatoes. Why?<BR/>That is because the "manufacturer" of the seed does not want you to grow your own, but wants you to buy that tomato new from them again this year. <BR/>It's called hybridizing. And though hybridizing makes for some neat plant characteristic, it also means that companies that produce the hybrids "build in" the inability to reproduce.<BR/>Neat trick, eh?<BR/>Now extrapolate that idea to all grains, beans, corn and rice.<BR/>So unless we want to starve, we need to take back our ability to save fertile seeds.<BR/>I know this is a simplified explanation, and i am leaving this topic open to lively discussion, but it begs the discussion.<BR/>Again, thank you for reading this book and reviewing it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-16858177201088970052008-07-31T20:42:00.000-07:002008-07-31T20:42:00.000-07:00kale: Glad I could give you a laugh. :) I was ama...kale: Glad I could give you a laugh. :) I was amazed -- it is a pretty deep book, but I wanted to keep reading it, too. It's well written.<BR/><BR/>gb: Sorry about that growing list -- what a problem! Thanks for your comment on East/West. It certainly is a recurring theme, and I'd be surprised too, if America seriously embraced some of the "Eastern" philosophy that might actually save us from ourselves. But the pendulum swings sometimes, so I guess you never know.Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08896172914500564208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-38388293966421734922008-07-31T18:18:00.000-07:002008-07-31T18:18:00.000-07:00It sounds like a great book, Donna. I remember Ka...It sounds like a great book, Donna. I remember Katrina loving it. I'm getting to the point, though, where I'd like some books that people don't like. My list is getting so large! ;-)<BR/><BR/>I love how you summarize the East/West type of distinction that seems to play out again and again in these green books. I'm not sure how likely, though, America will do an about face and embrace "the Eastern way" - the dichotomoy presented in most of these books. As you point out, there are good and bad to both ways.Green Beanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133847111288382381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356966849272755180.post-56410038711442910182008-07-31T08:20:00.000-07:002008-07-31T08:20:00.000-07:00Thank you for posting your review of this book and...Thank you for posting your review of this book and I'm so glad you gave it a 5 out 5 rating. The blood pressure meds line cracked me up. Yes, some of the information is infuriating but she did a good job of balancing it and kept me hungrily reading to the end.Kale for Salehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02467378353738682141noreply@blogger.com