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US genetically modified wheat stokes fears, Japan cancels tender
Reuters ^ | May 30, 2013 | Naveen Thukral and Risa Maeda

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

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; bees; billgates; bttoxin; changesdna; contaminatedwheat; damagekidneycells; damagenongmofarms; exports; geoengineeringhumans; gmfood; gmo; gmwheat; infertility; monsanto; openfieldtesting; roundup; usda; usdafailure; wheatmarket
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To: Mr. Lucky

Means weather isn’t your friend this spring. How much rain is the midwest supposed to get this week and weekend? Did the unseasonably cold spring affect planting schedules and forecast yields?

Inquiring minds want to know.


21 posted on 05/31/2013 9:12:07 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: diamond6

For an interesting and eye opening account of really what it is that is called “wheat” in the 21st century, read WHEAT BELLY by Dr. William Davis, a Michigan cardiologist. Davis found that his heart patients improved significantly when they went on a gluten free diet. They also lost weight and those with diabetes also had better sugar control. Intrigued he started doing research as to why avoiding wheat would cause such noticeable changes. The result is this book and now a new health movement.

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/about-the-author/

For all the skeptics, please read the articles on the site before you criticize. :-)


22 posted on 05/31/2013 9:12:28 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: opentalk
Foolishness. From the people who gave the world Godzilla.
23 posted on 05/31/2013 9:14:10 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Madam Theophilus

The funding to develop the ‘new’ wheat crop came from the Rockefeller foundation. I’m sure they’re just interested in the health and well being of humanity.


24 posted on 05/31/2013 9:14:31 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: jpsb

Oh, for carps sake. Corn is wind pollinated. Honey bees have no interest in corn whatsoever.

The idea that Bt corn is killing bees is scientifically and common sensically stupid.


25 posted on 05/31/2013 9:15:54 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police canÂ’t solve a problem with brute force, theyÂ’ll find a way to fix it with brute forc)
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To: Valpal1
"Corn is wind pollinated"

So bees never visit corn fields?

26 posted on 05/31/2013 9:17:56 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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To: Valpal1

Tell that to the bees in my corn patch when the tasseling is happening.

Maybe I should put up a sign for them?


27 posted on 05/31/2013 9:19:31 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ZULU

Genetically engineering crops so that they can withstand intense dosages of pesticides will result in food contaminated with those pesticides.

Monsanto engineers the plant and also sells the pesticide. It the lobbies the government for perpetual immunity.

Too much bad juju for my liking.


28 posted on 05/31/2013 9:21:56 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: opentalk

The problem with Monsanto is not their science. It’s their fascist intellectual property enforcement practices.


29 posted on 05/31/2013 9:24:45 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Black Agnes; ZULU
Hybrid Seeds Vs GMOs

In both open-pollinated and hybrid seeds,we have always been breeding crops that were genetically able to breed, like two types of stone fruit,or two varieties of squash,or two breeds of dog. But,unlike open pollinated seed selection or hybridization,GMO technology allows us to “play God” in a way that even Mother Nature hasn’t dared.

Today,with sophisticated and very expensive lab techniques (like retroviruses and gene guns),we can now manipulate and combine the DNA of species that could never,ever breed in nature—like fish and tomatoes, Brazil nuts and soybeans,or bacteria and corn. We can even genetically engineer cows to produce human breast milk

GMO corn developed by Monsanto,for example, includes genetic material from the bacterium Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), which kills European corn borers by punching holes in its gut lining....

Combining or splicing together genes from different organisms in the lab (without actually sexually breeding them) is known as recombinant DNA technology,and the resulting organism is said to be “genetically modified,” “genetically ..link

30 posted on 05/31/2013 9:25:20 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Actually I know all that. I was poking fun at the people who think GMO and traditional hybrids produced via sexual reproduction are the same thing.

Ain’t never seen a wild cornfield have sex with a bacterium.


31 posted on 05/31/2013 9:27:11 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SeeSharp

The problem with Monsanto is not their science. It’s their fascist intellectual property enforcement practices.


Obama recently signed the Monsanto Protection Act.


32 posted on 05/31/2013 9:28:58 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Black Agnes

Are they really honey bees? Have you trapped them and had them positively identified?

Not every flying insect is a bee and not every bee is a honey bee.


33 posted on 05/31/2013 9:29:17 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police canÂ’t solve a problem with brute force, theyÂ’ll find a way to fix it with brute forc)
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To: James C. Bennett
Monsanto engineers the plant and also sells the pesticide.

Monsanto engineered wheat to withstand *herbacides*. Stay in school.

34 posted on 05/31/2013 9:29:42 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Valpal1

Bees don’t pollinate corn, but they do like the tassels which I assume is them going after the pollen itself for food.


35 posted on 05/31/2013 9:29:59 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Mr. Lucky
Hope you don’t choke on the anti-farming koolaid.

There's a big difference between being anti-Monsanto and being anti-farming.

Monsanto could not achieve the corrupt ends it has without the Power of the State helping them.

Monstanto is exhibit-A for crony Capitalism.

36 posted on 05/31/2013 9:39:48 AM PDT by sand88
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To: Valpal1

I’ve gardened for 40 years. They are honey bees. Guy across the road has a couple hives.

Beekeeper friends tell me honey bees will, in fact, visit tasseling corn.

They don’t have to visit it to be affected though. Corn pollinates via wind. Bees fly in air that’s saturated by corn pollen. Especially in the midwest. They don’t have to visit a cornstalk to contact corn pollen.


37 posted on 05/31/2013 9:40:48 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SeeSharp
To withstand herbicides? Okay, big difference.

And it is a good idea to consume herbicides through eating food produced with a primary crop engineered to survive large dosages of the said herbicide, because?

And the government intervention to provide specific immunity to Monsanto through lobbied-for legislation is a good thing, because?

Go to school. Question assumptions. Spell better. Think better.

38 posted on 05/31/2013 9:43:13 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: DoughtyOne

monsanto is the devil


39 posted on 05/31/2013 9:49:25 AM PDT by Augie
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