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N.W. Illinois | If you want to shut someone up that is ripping on gmo's in foods just ask them what their thoughts are on mutagenic foods. Deer in the headlights. As you can already see it's crickets, no comeback from the anti gmoers that were posting here. What can they say?
Are you familiar with Clearfield wheat? It's a mutagen. Released by BASF (of course a European owned company) with no protest, just acceptance . No multi million dollar studies to show it's safety, just release it, here it is, use it. Here's what BASF promotion of Clearfield says "The Clearfield® Production System for wheat trait is a novel, non-genetically modified. (non-GMO) crop herbicide tolerance technology discovered by BASF." What a bunch of nonsense.
You could plant a Clearfield wheat variety for organic usage. You just couldn't use BASF's chemical program.
I doubt if you could find a wheat variety sold or produced in the world that has not been modified by radiation or chemical mutagenesis over the last 70 years. It's all been altered one way or another. But let just one kernel of wheat mysteriously show up that is a "real GMO" and all hell breaks loose. Export bans, market crash you know the rest.
The interesting thing about the red grapefruit is nature did the first deep red grapefruit on it's own. Yep it was a natural mutagen. Farmers cultivated this beautiful looking fruit and sales took off. However as new trees get released generation after generation they start to loose whatever mutation took place. The grapefruit lost it's deep red color. Sales of grapefruit started to fall because people liked the red fruit not the pale ho hum fruit nature originally produced. Nature had down a one in a million shot with the original red grapefruit but that wasn't going to happen again. What to do? So......... some nuclear scientist at the International Atomic Energy Agency started cooking the grapefruit nucleus with radiation and after thousands and thousands of trial and error one of the mutagens produced was the ruby red grapefruit. This enhancement was for color only. No improvements in real flavor, tree health, or nutrition.
Are mutagens safe? Probable but shouldn't these mutagenic foods be held to the same high standards as the release of the genetic events for crops. After all these mutagens are going directly into peoples stomachs not being consumed by pigs, cattle, and chickens like GMO corn and soybeans.
Edited by mounder 11/20/2017 08:53
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