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The anti-folks have all kinds of theories why GE foods are “Frankenfood”, but even scarier is the fact they are going after “unapproved” crops as in Government Approved. Especially considering later in the article they claim no GE wheat has been detected in the “approved” food chain. Sounds like a potential “government APPROVED” shake down to me.

GE wheat has never been approved for commercialization or sale.

from article link #1 [NYT]

Still,the mere presence of the genetically modified plant could cause some countries to turn away exports of American wheat,especially if any traces of the unapproved grain were found in shipments.
About $8.1 billion in American wheat was exported in 2012,representing nearly half the total $17.9 billion crop,according to U.S. Wheat Associates,which promotes American wheat abroad. About 90 percent of Oregon’s wheat crop is exported.

And also means GE wheat ,which Monsanto has patent ownership to, is contaminating farms that never planted GE wheat. It risks their ability to export (sell) their crops.

gettinolder ~:” Is this variety not good for people?
Haven’t followed this so don’t understand the seriousness of what they are fearful of...”

Wheat is a variety of grass. It polinates via wind.
The only way you can control cross-polination with other wheat crops is by controlling the wind (ie.: greenhouse,or under-cover).
Monsanto ‘owns’(?) a patent on certain plant varieties that they have Geneticly Modified/Engineered .
The legal definition of ‘own ‘ a patent on living matter is yet to be legally defined .

A couple of years ago , the Russians conducted experiments using rats and the effect of GM/E foods.
The Russian tests showed a decrease in rat fertility by the 4 th generation, and complete sterility by the 12 th generation of rats fed the GM/E foods.
Hence the name “Frankenfoods”.
As a result , Russia and other foreign countries banned all GM/E foods from importation into their country.
Thus , the presence of GM/E in common regular field wheat jeopardizes the billions of wheat money available for export, since many countires won’t even allow it into thier borders.
This represents a potential substantial financial loss to the farmer,the grain elevator operator ,the transporter , and to the country exporting the wheat.

The issue of safety of these GM/E foods is the main issue.
Since these GM/E foods don’t have to be marked as such,and since these foods are not exported , they remain within the continental U.S.
Supposedly, the GM/E foods are used for annimal feed, but as the genetic lines get blurred by windblown cross-contamination and there is no reliable tracking , it is inevitable that some of these GM/E foods will enter human consuption here in the U.S.
Does that clarify the situation ?

There is a product which most Americans are familiar with. It’s a weed killer called Roundup. Roundup is made by Monsanto. Monsanto then developed seeds, wheat for instance, that doesn’t die when Roundup is sprayed on it.

This makes the farmer’s job easier, but what has it done to the genetics of the wheat? No one knows because they put this wheat in our food without testing it first. However, there is a huge amount of celiac disease now that we did not have before genetically modified wheat. What if all our food is modified so that when it grows Roundup doesn’t kill it but it is not really food anymore, just a modified poison?
Monsanto also now wants control of all the seeds so that they will have a monopoly on them. They would like to destroy all the old heirloom seeds so that we could never go back to growing real food if the frankenfood really is a horrible poison, so folks are hording non hybrid seeds.
Also, this may be what is killing off all the bees. They are not Roundup ready! The soil is no contaminated with Roundup and seeds from the last crop which will now mix with the new crop planted in the same field next year. And if I tried to grow wheat that is not modified, it would cross pollinate with the crop next door, which is...And Monsanto can sue me saying I stole their seeds and planted them illegally. Now my crop is theirs.
These are some of the fears that people have about GMO foods these days.
President Obama just did some executive order orprotecting Monsanto and their machinations.
Hope this answers all your questions and more!