Posted on 09/27/2014 10:38:21 AM PDT by LucyT
Hot dog! This means they owe money to Monsanto! Can’t plant GM seed, intentionally or otherwise, without handing cash over to them!
From a legal standpoint, I’d say they lost control of it through an unregulated release.
We’re talking Monsanto! They ARE the law.
OH NOOOOOOOOOO! We’re all gonna die. Uh, yeah. The death rate around the world remains at 100%. Eventually, everybody gotta go.
Hasn’t corn been genetically modified by Indians over the course of about 4000 years?
Yep and pretty much every seed company has GMO seeds now not just Monsanto.
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.
This means more food for everyone.
My degree is not in horticulture-but once crops were genetically modified on a mass scale-like they obviously are-did anyone really expect they would be able to stop the modified plants from spreading by pollination? These are plants-what are they going to do-fine the bees for going into a rival company’s field? Sue the beekeepers for allowing it?
I only eat stuff grown in my garden or another local one because it tastes better, I know where it came from and I don’t like the idea of chemically treated/engineered strains creeping into the food of those of us who choose to eat chemical-free plants, buy meat from grass fed livestock, and have eggs from free range chickens-but pollination control on a large scale seems impossible...
> 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...
Nope its unlicensed use of a patented product.
No, corn has been selectively bred for thousands of years. It’s DNA has not been spliced with that of other organisms until recently.
Oh, really. Out of the millions and millions of acres of wheat grown in the US, they just happened upon these 1-3 acres of spotily planted GMO wheat. And just so happens Monsanto (evil, spit) has it's panties in a wad because they SUPPOSEDLY didn't authorize (aka get paid) the planting. Nope, not believing this isn't a set up by Monsanto.
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> ... 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...
It is possible to buy heirloom einkorn, but even that is a case of “eat early neolithic grains, get early neolithic ailments” like the iceman Otzi did (bad teeth and heart disease).
It may come as a shock to FR readers, but your government’s advice on what to eat is a complete and utter disaster, and once understood, both completely explains the disastrous trends in non-infectious disease over the last 40 years, and also points to how to jump off those rising curves.
Doing almost anything other than following the USDA’s MyPlateOfMetabolicSyndrome would be an improvement, but the “paleo/primal/LCHF” movements are apt to be the near-term optimal alternatives. One such program that seems to have it all nailed is Davis’ “Wheat Belly”. I’m about halfway through his latest book “Wheat Belly Total Health”, and it is way far more than just avoiding wheat.
To get back today’s story, another report had the USDA saying that it would be safe to eat this GM wheat. How would they know? They tell us (when you can nail them down) to get 60% of our calories from carbs, mostly “whole grains”, which means most runt mutant goat grass (sold to you as “semi-dwarf hybrid wheat”). This stuff is a multiple threat human toxin, largely responsible for the T2D epidemic.
See either “Death by Food Pyramid” (Minger) or “The Big Fat Surprise” (Teicholz) for the whole facepalm story of we got a food pyramid that’s essentially upside down.
Like when a virus puts new genetic material into a plant?
That should be against the law!
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