Posted on 05/31/2013 8:44:34 AM PDT by opentalk
- A strain of genetically modified wheat found in the United States fuelled concerns over food supplies across Asia on Thursday, with major importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain.
Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippines said they were closely monitoring the situation after the U.S. government found genetically engineered wheat sprouting on a farm in the state of Oregon.
The strain was never approved for sale or consumption.
Asian consumers are keenly sensitive to gene-altered food, with few countries allowing imports of such cereals for human consumption. However, most of the corn and soybean shipped from the U.S. and South America for animal feed is genetically modified.
"We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today," Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters
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Good for them.
Stop GMOs and the frankenfoods!
Hey Monsanto, there goes the wheat market.
Great job...
Idiots. Do they think modern corn is genetically identical to the original product?
This is more junk science from enviro-Nazis.
Wheat futures are up across the board in Kansas City this morning. Hope you don’t choke on the anti-farming koolaid.
I agree.
It would be nice to see monsanto go under——but hussein would bail them out ‘cause they’re just to big to fail.
Wheat futures escalating doesn’t mean farms are going to be saved. It means wheat is going to be scarce. That means a lot of farms are going under. That means that our bread supply will be short, and the prices will skyrocket.
Isn’t that an anti-farming outcome? Sure doesn’t look pro-farm to me.
Might be in response to the unseasonable weather affecting winter wheat. Late freezes and insufficient soil moisture seem to have been problematic in some of the plains states this past spring.
Unapproved genetically modified wheat from Monsanto found in Oregon field
USDA investigating detection of Genetically Engineered (GE) GLYPHOSATE-RESISTANT wheat in Oregon
Perhaps so, but commodities are a very touchy things. One whisper can cause a big move. Asian nations signing off intended purchases isn’t going to be helpful.
Any idea what is killing all the bees in the USA?
Not helpful at all.
The Japanese aren’t a stupid people and they’re hardly anti science and technology luddites. If they have a problem with GMO foods it might mean there is a problem with GMO foods.
1. What is the basis of the fear?
2. A hypothetical: If a wheat variety were genetically modified to render it highly resistant to a particular fungal disease, and this modification did not redound to the benefit of a multi-national chemical corporation, would that variety of wheat be shunned for use as food for human consumption?
The following list is a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed studies that prove the dangers of gmos:
Have you ever seen a wild cornfield having sex with a bacterium? Do you think the people who planted and selected strains of hybrid corns in the 1950’s convinced those strains to have sex with a bacterium?
These ain’t Gregor Mendel’s hybrids.
The Japanese don’t strike me as anti-science and technology luddites. And there are plenty of ginormous corporations in Japan. If they wanted to GMO stuff they could very easily do it themselves. Many modern hybrids grown come from Japan. Just nothing GMO.
What do the Japanese know that our government has been bought off to overlook?
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