"The humans will eat this stuff, but the animals won't."
U.S. farmer, ACRES, USA Special Report 19 September 1999.
After four months of retrieving anecdotes from Kansas to Wisconsin, I think
its high time to sample the producer community more thoroughly to see how many
stories there are out there.
Tell us more about the hogs that wouldn't eat the ration when the GMO crops
were included. About the farmer who said ' Well, if you want your cattle to
go off their feed, just switch them out to a GMO silage.'
About the farmer who said that his cattle broke through an old fence and ate
down the non-GMO hybrids but wouldn't touch the Round-up ready corn, and as
a matter of fact, "They had to walk through the GMOs to get to the Pioneer
3477 on the other side."
About the cattleman who saw the weight-gain of his cattle fall off when he switched
over to GMO sources. About the organic farmer with a terrible deer problem on
his soybeans, and when he drives out at night there are forty of them mowing
down his tofu beans while across the road there isn't one doe eating on the
Round-up Readies.
About the raccoons romping by the dozen in the organic corn, while down the
road there isn't one ear that's been touched in the Bt fields. Even the mice
will move on down the line if given an alternative to these 'crops'.
What is it that they know instinctively that most of us ignore? I have been
traveling around with a bag of contaminated cob corn on the floor of my vehicle,
and I have begun to think of it as if it was a bag of plutonium."