[PJ-Comix]

Hasn’t corn been genetically modified by Indians over the course of about 4000 years?

[tiki]

Yep and pretty much every seed company has GMO seeds now not just Monsanto.

[freedomfiter2]

We all know that selective breeding isn’t the same thing. Also, the slow change allows the consumers of the plant to adapt as well.

[khelus]

Hasn’t corn been genetically modified by Indians over the course of about 4000 years?

No

hybridization dos not = GMO in which genetic material is moved from one species to another.

When Monsanto tells you GMO's haven't been proven harmful, the small print says 'because there was no testing.

[Boundless]

> 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?

[driftdiver]

No, corn has been selectively bred for thousands of years. It’s DNA has not been spliced with that of other organisms until recently.