PING!
Eat an egg.
Do they use this to make Frankenberry cereal?
Do they still make frakenberry cereal?
Anyone who uses terms like “frankengrain” I take with a huge grain of salt. My first suspicion is “scare mongering for profits”.
We eat only organic wheat and make our own bread. We don’t have any problems.
Recently I ran out of org. white flour (I use about 1/2 ww and and 1/2 to 1/3 white) and used non-org. white. We both felt like crap.
IMHO not having read the book, that the problem is the chemicals used in ag biz including the Roundup on wheat that is the problem.
“Using breeding methods that predate genetic modification, geneticists were unable to precisely control which genes were changed, which genes were turned on or turned off, and whether entirely new and unique genetic traits were created by accident. They simply looked for the characteristics relevant to their own interests, such as shorter height or greater yield, but had no real interest in nor insight into what the total package did to humans. “
Umm, hate to break this too you, but before humans started doing that, nature was doing the exact same thing to the wheat anyway. Selection is selection, whether we do, or whether nature does it. We simply get the job done faster, and can push it in a direction that suits out interests.
Gluten intolerance was unknown before genetically modified wheat.
While that's true for my son, it's been a bit longer than that for me and longer yet for my husband. Humans have been eating genetically modified foods ever since we invented agriculture. Furthermore, as another poster pointed out, Nature has been genetically modifying organisms for billions of years, long before humans ever got the idea that maybe wheat with ten seeds per stalk is preferable to grow than wheat with four seeds per stalk.
I clicked on the article thinking that it would be another anti-GMO dingbat rant. But in reality, the article is sensible.
So it’s okay if you selectively breed plants to promote certain genetic characteristics, but it’s doom if you introduce those same genetic modifications through gene splicing or other technology?
George Washington Carver and Norman Borlaug are heroes but Monsanto is the Boogeyman?
Bookmarked.
bmp
posted article contained nothing but blather. There was not one specific as to exactly what bad modifications were made to wheat.