Posted on 05/30/2013 8:00:45 PM PDT by Ron C.
Japan, the largest market for U.S. wheat exports, suspended imports from the United States and canceled a major purchase of white wheat on Thursday after the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon.
How the altered crop made its way to the Oregon field remains a mystery. The strain was developed by Monsanto to make wheat resistant to the companys own industry-leading weed killer. Monsanto tested the type of altered seed in more than a dozen states, including Oregon, between 1994 and 2005, but it was never approved for commercial use.
Yet the Agriculture Department reported that recent tests identified the strain after an Oregon farmer trying to clear a field sprayed Monsantos herbicide, Roundup, and found that the wheat could not be killed.
The report rattled U.S. wheat markets. In addition to Japans action, the European Union, which imports more than 1 million tons of U.S. wheat a year, said that it was following developments to ensure E.U. zero-tolerance policy is implemented. It asked Monsanto to help detection efforts in Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I'm a troll for making and argument that made you mad because you couldn't refute it? I'm a conservative and I have a degree in science. There is no place in my life for decisions based on fear of the unknown and emotion-driven policy debates.
Humans at Monsanto are doing evil things. It is corporate fascism at its worst.
Yet most at that site don't have the intellectual sophistication to understand that without governmental Power, Monsanto could not accomplish what it is now doing.
Wasn’t this the sort of thing that they guaranteed wouldn’t happen?
Virtually all -- if not all -- of our food crops are produced from hybrid seeds.
And what is genetic modification if not simply a more efficient means of producing a hybrid seed?
We have used Glycophosphate since it first cam on the market.
We used DowPon when it first came our back in the 1960’s. Then we used Ansar. Then RoundUp.
I know about the herbicides.
I am in the planting seed business. We grow, store, process and sell bulk planting seed from our operation at the farm. We have never grown GMO crops of any kind. None.
Thank you.
There are lots of hybrids out there, but only a few crops are actual GMOs. Hybrids are the result of 2 varieties within the same species crossing (sort of like a labradoodle), and can happen naturally very easily. GMOs are the result of genes from one species being inserted into a completely different species. With the dog analogy, it would be more like a pittbull with squid tentacles.
Most likely, what he has are hybrids.
If that seed does produce itself, Monsanto will claim ownership and demand the crop — if you are damaged financially so you are unable to pay it off — they can take your farm. Do you believe that?
Regardless of this thread topic- what is going on with your- (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins)...Are you inane, PraiseTheLord?
It isn’t a free-for-all. As pollination vectors, bees and other bugs, move from plant to plant looking for pollen, they don’t go straight from one frankenwheat to the next. They go from wheat to weed, to weed, to weed, to wheat, to weed, and as they do some genetic material is spread around and might get included into an adaptation by the weeds.
The weirder thing is this. While GMO crops are viable, they tend to return to being regular crops as the recessive genes fade over generations. If these thwere last tested in the early 2000’s then why are they popping up now. Monsanto or somebody is not being honest.
thanks for the link...
Is the wheat any good?
Does it have rat crap in it?
What a bunch of hooey....If the farmer planted the stuff during the test. it may still be growing in the ditches and borders (self seeding). If he cut any of it he would mix the two varieties. If he did not and is making a issue about the stuff that is still growing around the field, he should be looking at himself...He got paid to plant it by Monsanto.
If he saved some seed from the test thinking he would sell it to market years later and got caught, then he's a liar and a swindler. Monsanto would have no reason to sell him test seed.
So the answer is to use another weed killer that kills it. He probably asked Monsanto to provide it free since he did not kill it off the first time and they refused resulting in a major tiff over nothing.
The sad thing is.....I used to farm wheat when I was a kid. It make’s farmers look bad when they do this stuff and all this franken food nonsense is just ticking me off. They have been genetically manipulating grain for a couple hundred years, we are all still here....They just do it differently these days.
Maybe they should splice a human leg into the plant so that it kicks the farmers butt when he walks by.
Rosa DeLauro’s (D-Conn.) husband conducted research for Monsanto. In the recent past, she introduced legislation (”Food Safety,” ect.) that would make small farming difficult and legally dangerous while not slowing down companies like Monsanto.
Sure, if you consider a listed side effect of "development of ambiguous sex organs in fetuses of exposed pregnant females" as "safe".
” Regardless of this thread topic- what is going on with your- (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins)...Are you inane, PraiseTheLord? “
Oh Ho, so ElkGroveDan-who-sounds-like-a-troll has another pal here ~
If you have not seen the aforementioned horrors, I have a search engine I could refer you to !
Mankind is getting too big for their own britches.
I’d like to opt out of the times we are living in, but I can’t.
We are screwed on so many levels, more than I care to know, but now I’m seeing them..
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