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To: DoughtyOne

I wouldn’t worry that much about genetically modified wheat making us sick.

The non-genetically-modified strains in common use are already toxic, due to the introduction of genetic material from non-food grasses through perfectly ordinary cross-breeding and hybridization.


54 posted on 05/30/2013 8:44:38 PM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege

I’m not sure I’d classify something so nearly sterile as to necessitate ‘embryo rescue’ as a normal part of selective breeding. Our current wheat would have never been able to have been bred 100 years ago.


58 posted on 05/30/2013 8:47:14 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: jdege

Thank you. I wasn’t worried this product would make people sick. I was just thinking it would cross pollinate and soon there would only be wheat of this type out there.

That seems to me to be a very bad outcome.


142 posted on 05/30/2013 11:58:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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