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I think the answer depends on whether it can still procreate with a regular chimp. It's one of the defining differences between species. If it can't, it's a different species; if it can, then it's just a unique breed, although one produced by accelerated intervention rather than selective genetics.
That's just a rough delineation--I'm aware that there are some exceptions, like mules.
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I’m all for GMO, non organic gluten. Just not Kellogg’s
Ought we avoid grains that we grow ourselves? Grain in diets figures quite prominently in the Bible.
It’s certainly a good thing to avoid whatever the FDR-created and federally-controlled “agribusiness” produces (per the ninth plank of communism, which stipulates “[c]ombination of agriculture with manufacturing industries”).
Gregor Mendel is rolling over in his grave thinking “Jeeze are they still arguing about this?”
Corn has likewise undergone extensive changes.
There is much information to suggest that the original genetic information is still there. We know very little information about junk dna. It may be an incredible back up system. One thing we should agree on, “junk dna” is very complex. We only call it junk because we don’t understand it.
What we have now are all Frankengrains.
Always note the use of words.
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as I work with the end results of GMO grain research, I can assure you, there is GMO wheat being marketed all over the world and it has been for the past twenty years.
The Luddites, the Ted kazinskys, and the lawyers profiting from the fight against science are an interesting sideline for the ignorant and the dishonest.
Bookmark for later. I happen to be reading “Wheat Belly” right now.
I am deeply saddened that my Lays, Fritos and Karrs snack mix is produced with GMOs. I can taste that all are different. The taste is what caused me examine the back of the bags for ingredients only to to find the phrase “Produced with Genetic Engineering.”
I can’t digest enriched supermarket wheat myself. However, I believe there is an important p,ace for grains and seeds and nuts in our diet as long as that place is far down the list in quantity of what we eat. Grains shouldn’t be at every meal. But our gut bugs create our health and well being, even our moods. We need the RIGHT kinds populating in us to be healthy. And they love resistant starch. Grains and tubers are an important part of their diet.
The best grains are the least adulterated ones. Steel cut oats, for example. But also white rice is good because it has a lot of resistant starch, especially when cooked and then cooled (like in sushi or other Japanese cold rice dishes). Prepared things like breads are healthier if they are fermented, like a real sour dough.
I can bake with organic white whole wheat with no iron or other “enrichment” added. But I don’t touch anything made with wheat that I did not personally make. I live gluten free when I eat out. Lettuce wrap is better than those hideous buns anyway!
But you can get plenty of starches your gut bugs need from cooked potatoes and sweet potatoes and other tubers and roots. You could live grain free and still have happy gut bugs!