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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 ...
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.
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. :-)
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.
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.
So bees never visit corn fields?
Tell that to the bees in my corn patch when the tasseling is happening.
Maybe I should put up a sign for them?
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.
The problem with Monsanto is not their science. It’s their fascist intellectual property enforcement practices.
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
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.
The problem with Monsanto is not their science. It’s their fascist intellectual property enforcement practices.
Obama recently signed the Monsanto Protection Act.
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.
Monsanto engineered wheat to withstand *herbacides*. Stay in school.
Bees don’t pollinate corn, but they do like the tassels which I assume is them going after the pollen itself for food.
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.
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.
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.
monsanto is the devil
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