> Hasn’t corn been genetically modified by
> Indians over the course of about 4000 years?
Yes, and even that annual selective breeding was too fast for humans to adapt to the problems that arise from consuming the seeds of grasses. Even heirloom teosinte is a health disaster. I no longer eat whatever it is that is now sold as “corn”.
“Non-GMO”, by the way does not mean “annual selective breeding”, although the industry would like us to assume that. The wheats legally on the market, for example, are the product of:
* cross-breeding with non-wheat species, esp. goat grass (which is even less of a human food)
* accelerated breeding (multiple crops per year) in the lab and in climatically favorable locations
* embryo rescue - keeping young hybrids alive that would fail left afield
* chemo-mutagensis (random gene modification)
* radio-mutagenesis (more random)
Actual GMO (explicit gene insertion) might actually be safer than those last two “non GMO” techniques.
Monsanto is once again blaming “sabotage” for this release, but it’s been over a decade since the authorized field trials. Where did the imagined activists get the frankenseeds?
Thank you for the clarification-the only flour I buy is from a mom-and-pop grain mill about 100 miles away, but there isn’t really any guarantee on that either, it seems...