Oregon – The Agriculture Department says a non-approved strain of genetically engineered wheat has been discovered in an Oregon field.
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USDA officials said the wheat is the same strain as a genetically modified wheat that was tested by seed giant Monsanto a decade ago but never approved. Monsanto stopped testing that product in Oregon and several other states in 2005.
There is no genetically engineered wheat approved for U.S. farming, and the discovery is a potential threat to trade with other countries that have concerns about genetically modified foods. The United States exports about half of its wheat product.
The USDA said the genetically engineered wheat is safe to eat, but it is investigating how it ended up in the field. Officials would not comment on how it may have gotten there.
If anyone believes this rubbish that it’s safe, they need their head examined.
Where is Draga Rebbi (Laufer) when you need him?
GMO’s are NOT at all safe, that is why the evil Monsanto has unprecedented government backing whereby they can not be sued or held responsible for any harm done by their products……don’t believe me? Google for yourself “Monsanto Protection Act” Even where the gmo (genetically modified organisms) don’t outright harm people the product when compared side by side next to the one that Hashem created is Severely lacking in nutritional benefits, vitamins, etc.
This whole GMO, non-gmo, organic stuff is FAR overblown.
Saying all GMO are bad is like saying all chemicals are bad, all natural things are good, I’m allergic to all medicines, and similar nonsense. Anyone who lumps things together under ridiculously broad categories and then makes similarly ridiculous broad statements about them belies his ignorance of the subject. Get your info from scientific textbooks, not mommy blogs.
The fact that this is unapproved and was growing in an organic farmer’s field without him planting it is very disturbing
Is this Kosher for Matzoh ?
its pretty simple, all GMO’s seeds are no good… 30 years ago noone was allergic to nuts, nowadays people can die from just smelling it, it’s because most of the seeds on the market have been genetically modified. it’s a terrible thing…
oh, and BTW, Monsanto controls over 90% of the seed market in america, they are the ones that created the genetically modified seeds. for all you naysayers, watch the documentary called “Food Incorporated”, you’ll never look at food the same way again.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about GMOs and a lot of mistaken opinions. GMO basically means that the genes are manipulated in a laboratory. While genetic manipulation occurs in nature and people have done it for millenia (look at all the breeds of dogs), these types require the animals/plants to be compatible. In other words, a horse can be bred with a donkey, but not with a tree or a frog. In lab GMO, genes from two non-compatible species can be combined to produce different effects. This is not bad, per se. The big concern of GMO is illustrated by this article – once a gene is released into the world, it cannot be controlled. This GMO wheat may be able to cross-pollinate other varieties of wheat, and the GMO’d genes will enter the species pool. This can have very bad consequences, for example, if the GMO’d plant was bred to be resistant to herbicide so farmers can douse their fields with Roundup. If that resistant gene migrated to weeds, our herbicides would become ineffective. IMHO, this is why GMO is problematic.