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
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He specifically said that the m/c were not related to glyphosphate exposure itself. They were caused by an organism related to GMO production.
The topic is genetically modified plants. Monsanto sells GM wheat designed to resist herbicides, not pesticides.
"Roundup resistant seeds made it easy for farmers to plant crops and then douse them with Monsanto pesticide, that many farms abandoned other techniques. Now, according to a number of scientific reports, superweeds that are immune to Monsanto’s pesticides have spread to millions of acres in more than 20 states the Midwestern United States." Forbes Sept 03 2011
Roundup is an herbicide, a weed killer. It isn't a pesticide.
Uh oh, the Gene mods don't just spread to other food crops...
That isn't evidence of spreading a gene modification.
They have no idea what the source of the detected protein is and pregnant women are more likely to purchase and consume organic foods.
From the actual study under "methodology"
A food market-basket, representative for the general Sherbrooke population, contains various meats, margarine, canola oil, rice, corn, grain, peanuts, potatoes, fruits and vegetables, eggs, poultry, meat and fish. Beverages include milk, juice, tea, coffee, bottled water, soft drinks and beer. Most of these foods come mainly from the province of Quebec, then the rest of Canada and the United States of America. Our study did not quantify the exact levels of PAGMF in a market-basket study. However, given the widespread use of GM foods in the local daily diet (soybeans, corn, potatoes,...), it is conceivable that the majority of the population is exposed through their daily diet.
Note that they didn't test the representative market basket selection nor did they question the subjects about their eating habits, nope... they just assumed.
Also, detection is not a demonstration of toxicity and the toxicity levels of Bt is already tested and known.
This was another scare study
Exactly. There is no evidence that GM is harmful. But Monsanto's perverse intellectual property enforcement certainly is.
Real science please, not ephemeral innuendo. What organism related to GMO production? Does it have name?
He told you in that post.
Did you not read his post?
The source of the protein is nearly irrelevant. Any amounts obtained from organic produce (I don’t know any pregnant women who eat exclusively organic) would be on the surface, easily washed off, and miniscule in comparison to the quantity contained, systemically, in the Bt corn products.
The whole ‘safety’ of the protein inclusion in the Bt corn was the fact that, as a protein, it would be broken down and digested. Any surviving peptides would be too large to be taken across the intestinal boundary. This was meant to soothe those concerned about the potential for danger with a small molecule.
Clearly that was an erroneous assumption. What else are they wrong about?
The ‘safety’ of BPA was ‘known’ for 40 years. Until it was discovered that it too was unsafe over multiple generations.
Costa Rica is not an island but does have a pretty sizable coastline. Life expectancy is a little under 80 nationally, but you may be thinking of the Nicoya Peninsula which is called one of the “blue zones” with an unually high life expectancy of around a hundred. We could learn something from those locals.
‘Should produce’.
Get back to us in October.
Monsanto bought a major bee research firm last year. The conspiracy theorists all shouted “I knew it, gmo is the cause”.
Apparently it didn’t occur to them that Monsanto sees an opportunity to make a gmo bee.
Puhlease.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
http://www.biofortified.org/2011/02/extraordinary-claims%E2%80%A6-require-extraordinary-evidence/
Seven warning signs of bogus science.
http://www.webexhibits.org/bogus/index.html
Bisphenol A (BPA) Found Not Harmful, Yet Again — So Why Did So Many Reporters and NGOs Botch Coverage, Yet Again?
You might want to check out the Wheat Belly blog as there are better ways to have gluten free bread than the stuff they sell in most grocery stores. As far as pasta alternatives, our family much prefers using zucchini shredded into long noodles than the gluten free variety. However, we are also trying to eat lower carbs as well.
Interesting. Every time I read about Monsanto it seems they operate like a mafia crime family.
Congress is to be blamed for allowing genetic material to receive patent protection.
Yeah, just think how much better off we would all be without the biosciences industry.
Good list but they left out what I think is the most reliable sign. Scientific discoveries that occur just when there is a political need for them are always bogus.
Think how much better off the bio sciences industry would be without the stifling affect of intellectual property.
As it turns out it IS harmful:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055387
This is a newer article and more recent research.
“Published: January 24, 2013”
It’s pretty damning.
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