Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Super Mustard ?
I've detailed my battle with the European invasive plant, garlic mustard. I declared war on it last spring, probably pulling up 50,000 plants in our acre of garden, and was feeling mighty pleased with myself as a result. I was then dumbfounded to find almost as many new plants springing up this year, from dormant seeds, and have learned it is a five year job to eradicate it. Now I read where in Canada, genetically engineered canola may have crossed with garlic mustard, creating a super-mustard. Yikes! 
// posted by IBOY @ 6:40 PM 
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"genetically engineered canola may have crossed with garlic mustard, creating a super-mustard."
Urk.
They keep playing with this stuff and making things that can't be used.. I'm not sure I like the idea that we creating this stuff.
I mean, we introduce chestnut blight, and can't control it. Dutch elm disease. Purple loosestrife. Emerald ash borer.
We can't contain or control the elements that are natural to the world that we 'misplace.'
Frightens me that we might 'misplace' something that will really cause problems. Something that has no natural checks and balances. We so smrt.
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Urk.
They keep playing with this stuff and making things that can't be used.. I'm not sure I like the idea that we creating this stuff.
I mean, we introduce chestnut blight, and can't control it. Dutch elm disease. Purple loosestrife. Emerald ash borer.
We can't contain or control the elements that are natural to the world that we 'misplace.'
Frightens me that we might 'misplace' something that will really cause problems. Something that has no natural checks and balances. We so smrt.
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