什么是 organic 种子?

[CCD]

周末去CT， 看到有很多蔬菜种子卖，就买了几种，准备种种看。 后来发现有一小部分种子写着 Organic 而且价格稍贵 ，甚至韭菜种子也有Organic 的。 难道种子不写Organic， 都是转基因的种子？

 

[Ayin_Ottawa]

organic 变成一个被严重滥用的词，因此没有意义。

转基因也不是那么容易转的，所以绝大部分植物都不是转基因。只有个别经济作物，如棉花、玉米、大豆被人给转基因。

Organic seeds应该是没有用杀霉剂处理的种子。

In agriculture, a seed treatment or seed dressing is a chemical, typically antimicrobial or fungidal, with which seeds are treated (or "dressed") prior to planting. One such seed dressing, Imidacloprid, from the Neonicotinoid family of insecticides, is controversial and has been banned in France, due to that government's belief that the chemical is implicated in recent dramatic drops in bee counts, and possibly in the so-called Colony Collapse Disorder.

In order to qualify for the United States Department of Agriculture Organic certification, farmers must seek out organic seed. If they cannot find organic seed, they are allowed to use conventional, untreated seed. Treated seed however, is never allowed.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_treatment

 

[蓝蓝白云]

organic 变成一个被严重滥用的词，因此没有意义。



转基因也不是那么容易转的，所以绝大部分植物都不是转基因。只有个别经济作物，如棉花、玉米、大豆被人给转基因。

转基因远远不止你说的棉花.玉米和大豆.

没有上百种.也有几十种了.我曾经看过一张清单.上面统统都是转基因产品.

 

[西迈]

同问, COSTCO的OMEGA-3的鸡蛋是怎么回事?

 

[CanMa2011]

同问, COSTCO的OMEGA-3的鸡蛋是怎么回事?

听说是鸡们吃了COSTCO的OMEGA-3片片以后下的蛋。比你直接吃OMEGA-3片片好。

 

[Mikejia]

Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.

 

[CCD]

转基因远远不止你说的棉花.玉米和大豆.

没有上百种.也有几十种了.我曾经看过一张清单.上面统统都是转基因产品.

个人比较同意蓝蓝白云的看法，转基因种子应该有很多种。潜意识认为转基因种子是为了产量和经济利益，韭菜在这儿不是大范围的种植吧？居然也分Organic seeds，这个称呼实在让人费解。　 Organic food 常用，Organic seeds 这个称呼很奇怪。
google 半天，发现下面的说法比较有意思。

The seeds will not be "organic" although the plants that grow from those seeds will be organic. There can be a difference, if the seed you are purchasing is one of the many that have been subject to artificial genetic modification they will never be organic and you can be sure that seeds sold as being organically grown, actually coming from organically grown plants, will not be artificially genetically engineered.
Purchasing organically grown seeds makes a much larger statement than simply that the seeds are organic. You are telling the seed companies that you do not want your seeds to be artificially genetically modified.

Theoretically all seeds that have been genetically modified must be identifide and the buyer must sign an agreement with the seed company that they will not save these patented seeds for future use. One of the problems that has been encountered is that not all seed salespersons require purchasers to do that and the GMO seeds are out there unmarked. Another problem is that, contrary to what the "scientists" expected these GMO plants are cross pollinating with non GMO plants and producing seeds with the genetic modification as well as with other plants that are exhibiting traits similar to those of the GMO plants.
Purchasing seeds that are not supposed to be from GMO stock is not quite the same as purchasing seed from certified organic sources, because you have no real way of knowing if those non organic seeds were not cross pollinated by some GMO plant.