What is the difference between a genetically modified vegetable and a hybrid vegetable?
Difference Between Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO Vegetables
By MARIE IANNOTTI Updated on 12/18/20
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Genetically Modified Plants
Hybrids should not be confused with genetically modified organisms—or GMOs—which can be any plant, animal, or microorganism that has been genetically altered using molecular genetics techniques such as gene cloning and protein engineering. Plants like corn that has the pesticide Bt engineered into its genetic makeup to make it resistant to certain pests are GMO crops. Bt is a natural pesticide, but it would never naturally find its way into corn seed.
You probably are not too keen on infusing your food with pesticides, and the overuse of a pesticide often results in the targeted pest becoming resistant to it. These types of concerns have given GMOs a terrible reputation. However, there are times when GMOs have arguably been quite positive in their impact—such as the high-yield, disease-resistant dwarf wheat introduced by Norman Ernest Borlaug, which helped increase the food supplies in India and Pakistan.
https://www.thespruce.com/hybrid-vs-heirloom-vegetables-1403361
Genetically Manipulated Crops: The GMO Catastrophe in the USA. A Lesson for the World
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Recently the unelected potentates of the EU Commission in Brussels have sought to override what has repeatedly been shown to be the overwhelming opposition of the European Union population to the spread of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in EU agriculture. EU Commission President now has a Maltese accountant as health and enviromnent Commissioner to rubber stamp the adoption of GMO. The former EU Environment Commissioner from Greece was a ferocious GMO opponent. As well, the Chinese government has indicated it may approve a variety of GMO rice. Before things get too far along, they would do well to take a closer look at the world GMO test lab, the USA. There GMO crops are anything but beneficial. Just the opposite.
What is carefully kept out of the Monsanto and other agribusiness propaganda in promoting genetically manipulated crops as an alternative to conventional is the fact that in the entire world until the present, all GMO crops have been manipulated and patented for only two things—to be resistant or “tolerant” to the patented highly toxic herbicide glyphosate chemicals that Monsanto and the others force farmers to buy as condition for buying their patented GMO seeds. The second trait is GMO seeds that have been engineered genetically to resist specific insects. Contrary to public relations myths promoted by the agribusiness giants in their own self-interest, there exists not oné single GMO seed that provides a greater harvest yield than conventional, nor one that requires less toxic chemical herbicides. That is for the simple reason there is no profit to be made in such.
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