Posted on 05/30/2013 7:39:09 AM PDT by opentalk
–The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today that test results of plant samples from an Oregon farm indicate the presence of genetically engineered (GE) glyphosate-resistant wheat plants.
Further testing by USDA laboratories indicates the presence of the same GE glyphosate-resistant wheat variety that Monsanto was authorized to field test in 16 states from 1998 to 2005. APHIS launched a formal investigation after being notified by an Oregon State University scientist that initial tests of wheat samples from an Oregon farm indicated the possible presence of GE glyphosate-resistant wheat plants. There are no GE wheat varieties approved for sale or in commercial production in the United States or elsewhere at this time.
… “We are taking this situation very seriously and have launched a formal investigation,” said Michael Firko, Acting Deputy Administrator for APHIS’ Biotechnology Regulatory Services, “Our first priority is to as quickly as possible determine the circumstances and extent of the situation and how it happened. We are collaborating with state, industry, and trading partners on this situation and are committed to providing timely information about our findings. USDA will put all necessary resources towards this investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at aphis.usda.gov ...
I was with you till the tofu...
No canola oil. No soy of any kind. No corn of any kind that isn’t labeled ‘organic’. No ‘sugar’ that isn’t ‘cane sugar’.
I cook everything from scratch using olive oil or coconut oil. We’ve planted enough acreage in old fashioned dent/flint corn this year to feed my chickens non-GMO as well. We’re growing sorghum for sweetening along with some stevia. The millet and amaranth get planted first part of next week.
I have a terminal degree in a hard science and did R&D for years. I do NOT trust GMO.
I’m even more suspicious when I find that the biggest population control wackjobs (gates, buffet, soros) are major stockholders of Monsanto and associated corporations. I’m sure it’s only because they want all seven billion of Earth’s inhabitants to be healthy and fertile and long lived. Right?
This is true, I have found common ground with my old friends the liberal hippies on this as well.
There is a product which most Americans are familiar with. It’s a weed killer called Roundup. Roundup is made by Monsanto. Monsanto then developed seeds, wheat for instance, that doesn’t die when Roundup is sprayed on it.
This makes the farmer’s job easier, but what has it done to the genetics of the wheat? No one knows because they put this wheat in our food without testing it first. However, there is a huge amount of celiac disease now that we did not have before genetically modified wheat. What if all our food is modified so that when it grows Roundup doesn’t kill it but it is not really food anymore, just a modified poison?
Monsanto also now wants control of all the seeds so that they will have a monopoly on them. They would like to destroy all the old heirloom seeds so that we could never go back to growing real food if the frankenfood really is a horrible poison, so folks are hording non hybrid seeds.
Also, this may be what is killing off all the bees. They are not Roundup ready! The soil is no contaminated with Roundup and seeds from the last crop which will now mix with the new crop planted in the same field next year. And if I tried to grow wheat that is not modified, it would cross pollinate with the crop next door, which is...And Monsanto can sue me saying I stole their seeds and planted them illegally. Now my crop is theirs.
These are some of the fears that people have about GMO foods these days.
President Obama just did some executive order orprotecting Monsanto and their machinations.
Hope this answers all your questions and more!
Conservative blog post on Monsanto:
http://fuzislippers.wordpress.com/
Why do you assume they have good intentions?
How about beet sugar ?
Any issues with sugar beets?
Sugar beets are nearly all gmo. ‘Cane’ sugar is, so far, not gmo.
Now, read all the ingredients of ‘prepared’ foods in the grocery store and tell me what % have some form of gmo in them.
Is there a non-gmo sugar beet ?
Yes. The old fashioned ones are still around. For the most part. It’s just that they’re not commercially grown anymore. And there’s no segregation of the sugar from them at the processing facility. So even if there are farmers still growing them, the sugar from them is mixed with the sugar from the gmo kind anyways. UNLESS it’s labeled non-GMO sugar.
For right now, ‘Cane Sugar’, is the only sugar commercially grown that IS reliably non-gmo.
For now. I’m sure they’re feverishly working on a gmo version right this very second. Slowly but surely all food groups are being converted into GMO. And WE are the long term studies on their safety. Seen a difference in the relative health of people since the early 90’s? Seen any more fat people? Depressed people? 20 somethings with fertility issues? Correlation? Who knows. No long term studies were done prior to the introduction of massive amounts of glyphosphate into the human food chain.
… SINGAPORE/TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - A strain of genetically modified wheat found in theUnited States fuelled concerns over food suppliesacrossAsia on Thursday, withmajor importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain. Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippinessaid they wereclosely monitoring the situation after the U.S. government found genetically engineered wheat sprouting on a farm in the state of Oregon..
Jessica Leader | May 30, 2013
Yeah, me too. Let’s get back to the use of 2,4,5-T, 2,4-D and those wonderful triazine herbicides. They were so much more healthy for us.
Definitely. Irradiation does a pretty good job of murdering whatever lives on produce and the produce along with it. When the green salad bag you find in the fridge three weeks after opening it looks brand new, you have reason to worry.
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