[Community_garden] Herbicide in Manure

[Mike McGrath]

I'm pretty sure glysophate is NOT the single herbicide that's been shown to 
survive composting.
    And the actual 'corn' that the horsies might eat isn't sprayed; true, 
some herbicide does get on the stalks--especially at the base, but the 
kernels are inside a protective husk; there wouldn't be any herbicide on 
them.
                                            ----McG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gordonse at one.net>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Herbicide in Manure


>> I think you're misunderstanding how these GM crops work.
>>     The only herbicide involvement I know of in the Frankenfood world is
>> the
>> "Round-up Ready" gene. This is bred into corn, cotton, and especially
> soybeans to make them super-resistant to that nasty frog killing
> herbicide,
>> allowing the fields to be soaked with vast amounts of Round-Up--at
> levels
>> that would wipe out a 'normal' crop (or any non Round-up Ready plant).
>>     No herbicide is actually bred into crops; that wouldn't make any
>> sense.
>> (Not that GM crops make sense, but...)
>>
> Maybe I didn't express myself well in the first post.
> The herbicide is on the corn and other grains, because they are heavily
> sprayed with herbicide.
> The corn doesn't die from the herbicide because it's been genetically
> modified to survive being poisoned.
> The horse eats the poisoned(sprayed with herbicide) grain.
> The herbicide survives the animal's digestive system and passes into the
> manure.
> The herbicide survives the regular composting proceses.
> The herbicide remaining in the composted manure can kill many types of
> plants including the vegetable plants that community gardeners would like
> to grow.
>
> So far as I know, no one has bred a corn that grows its own Round-up to
> kill all surrounding noncorn plants, but lets not give them any ideas. :-)
>
> Sharon
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