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Bread flour doesn’t need to be GMO to be contaminated with glyphosate formulations: They spray it wholesale on wheat crops as a dessicant to kill the wheat and speed harvesting & yields.

No joke.

I thought I was informed before researching my chapter on GMO; I felt like an idiot once I realized how ignorant I really was in ignoring all the anti-GMO crap as just ‘conspiracy-theory.’ Yes, there’s a lot of hyperbole on both sides, but it’s the hyperbole coming from the pro side which endangers us & our children.

I don't exactly understand about wheat although my grandfather and the others grew wheat; they planted more diversified then and rotated crops. In my young life, I spent time with my father and farm business and remember that farmers often purchased seed, don't remember talk about saving it. When I was a teen I grabbed a pink soybean out of a bag (maybe B4 gm but treated) and ate it, was told I shouldn't have. No, I shouldn't but it didn't seem to hurt me.

But I can see the upside of modern methods, too. So they spray green or ripening wheat with glysophate to cause the stalks to start dying (fast) which causes the plant to detect that it needs to optimize and send all remaining energy to the kernels?

The other thing is patenting and controlling plant material. I can certainly understand patenting seeds developed by the company but how far the patent net extends I don't know.

We can still freely buy and save flower and vegetable seeds although I suppose some vegetables are gm and possibly sterile. I don't know that a seedless watermelon would necessarily be poison though.

Which reminds me my partner was telling me about a seedless red raspberry growing along the road at his place. I get all excited about stuff like that and used to go hunting for the unusual. I was regretting that I missed the opportunity to propagate seedless red raspberries and grow at home. But maybe they are already available. I just thought it was extremely unusual plus being older, would rather not ingest too many of the seeds like I did with abandon when I was younger.

There's so much talk about gluten intolerance. I thought it was some fad except some time ago when I learned that a very few Catholics couldn't receive communion because of celiac disease (gluten intolerance). But if it is as you say, maybe eating wheat that could be contaminated with glysophate and other sprayed chemicals wouldn't be so good.

Then I thought of the biblical injunction about taking no thought about what you shall eat or what you shall drink, presumably within reason. And bread which I think was made with white flour or even whole wheat was the "staff of life" and the most symbolic of all the plants. Every culture seems to use white flour for millenia.

Exactly.

I cannot digest regular wheat. Surprisingly I have no problems with organic UNenriched wheat. Not that I eat it much, but if I did, that is very telling. Enriching is also harmful, especially stuffing cereals and grains with iron filings. Dumb. Everyone except the worst celiac patients can digest Italian 00 wheat.

Clean natural animals and plants make great nourishment.