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With all of the GMO (genetically modified organisms) laws being passed here and there and everywhere so the public never knows what they’re eating, gardening is becoming the new black. Why be left to wonder if you’re eating pesticides and other toxins when you can grow your own food. More and more people are turning to their own organic gardening so they know exactly what they are consuming. But what about city dwellers? Those fortunate enough to have a large basement are turning them into hydroponic artificially lit organic gardens. Apartment people have to turn to other methods. This is where resourcefulness and ingenuity come in.
French product designer, François Clerc, has come up with something so purely awesome: Graine de pot, a biodegradable, expandable garden pot that is great for urban gardening. How does it work? Plant your seeds, expand as necessary, watch your veggies, say tomatoes or courgettes or peppers, grow, enjoy them all summer and later in the fall throw all of it including the pot out into the compost. Hopefully, your city collects organic rubbish or you can just give it to a friend with a garden for compost.
Now if you can get your hands on non-GMO seeds, you’re in business – but that’s another matter.
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Yhea i find that pretty cool too.
Btw if you wanna dig on that for a future article about ogm, there were a broadcast on arte, about them, it was quite good.
First part was in india or china, in a region where something like 30% of cultivators using ogm sucided and other ones where demonstrating on the market, because they had to make a loan to invest in the seeds. Then it happens that the plants are not protected against all pests, but only some of them, and the plants were hit as usual by these pests and they losed enought money so that they sucided.
Second part is in Brazil as i remember were they produce something like 200 kinds of “mais”, and their governement decided to stop importing ogm seeds,so foar so good.
But not plants themselves, it does happen than on road sides were mais destined to consumption can fall during transport, ogm mais grew nicely, it did breed with whatever mais was around, the issue is that the breed is not sane and shows all kinds of weirdo mutations.
There were a scientific studty after that which was happening in a lab , but i don’t remember all the technical details, but basically ogm mais and natural mais are génétically stable , but the breed would be unstable.
So it s not like we need to prove than ogm mais is bad, it s already proven, first part prove that we gain basically nothing using ogms, second one shows than ogms are a danger for other cultures and that it can spread.
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