Would hybridized foods like some tomatoes be considered GMO? Because if they are, that’s going to narrow one’s food choices considerably. When I was a kid, my grandparents (both raised on real family farms with diverse crops) had a greenhouse. They grew food in a one acre garden too. That stuff supplemented their retirement. My grandpa hybridized his own yellow tomato when I was a kid. Sadly the seeds were not ever saved properly and the tomato died with him.

I’m all for home gardens and heirloom everything, from chickens to tomatoes to pigs and cows, cucumbers,apples, etc, etc. But not everyone has the luxury or knowledge to grow/raise those things. As in all things, science can be carried to a destructive extreme, so maybe instead of the purists freaking out about stuff they should look at what actual scientists have to say about it. I get weary of the panic over GMOs, gluten free, carbs, and so on. I have one friend who is actually terrified of eating carbs. Her word, TERRIFIED. Really? I felt like eating a cookie in front of her just for fun. Is that mean? Heh.