Big Pharma? Bayer is, last I heard, in the process of aquiring Monsanto, and has long had a crop sciences division (QO houses one of their buildings in fact). InVigor is a seed brand of Bayer. I tried to use specifically Non-Monsanto references.
No, traditional harvesting does not require new seeds to be purchased. You can, undoubtedly, if one wishes. But most conventional farmers/gardeners would identify the excellent producers and harvest those seeds again and again.
When my wife was pregnant, I spent an awful lot of time reading. And sorry, a blog post doesn't weigh the same as sources in books I've read. Breastmilk has an uncanny ability to be unique in composition to each mother/child, and changes in composition continually from birth through development. Not that it matters, as it was just a good example science/nature.
All but one link you posted is from a very pro-industry bias. Which is fine, but you can't assume I'm coming from an Anti-Corp bias and then provide the sources you have.
Also, the debate isn't Organic being healthier as a foodstuff than Conventional (as per the AJCN article). It's that GMO foodstuffs as a whole are detrimental compared to either conventional or Organic or alternative.
We do clearly agree on the major fact, that being the state of health and diet. I do wonder why we feel we need to turn to a laboratory though to fix it? The answer is really quite simple, and as near as I can tell the current shift in agriculture has done nothing but continue to feed the poor health diet.
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