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RE: Preparing for what? - bigpaul - 6 January 2012
(6 January 2012, 15:18)NorthernRaider Wrote: I thought GM wheat was sterile?
funny, i thought that was what i just said-but a bit more long winded!
RE: Preparing for what? - NorthernRaider - 6 January 2012
Sorry, I'm half asleep today
RE: Preparing for what? - Scythe13 - 6 January 2012
We've all been eating GM crops for years! GM has been a staple of our diets since the 70's (possibly 60's but I'm too lazy to check for the sake of a decade). The long term effect are as we are now.
The thing with GM being sterile is that not all GM crops are sterile. The ones sold to UK farmers are sterile, so that the big companies can keep selling the seeds to the farmers. If GM was 100% sterile, how do they make enough seeds to plant a field? They have crops that are not sterile, then they produce masses of seeds. Those seeds are steralised then sold to farmers.
The lower quality GM sold to the 'developing' countries is not sterile, but it is still higher quality than the traditional strains that were grown years ago.
RE: Preparing for what? - bigpaul - 6 January 2012
yeah if you say so, personally speaking i'll stay away from the stuff, as much as i can.
RE: Preparing for what? - Scythe13 - 6 January 2012
If you look into the amount of breads on the shelves of supermarkets that use GM wheat, you'll have to stop eating bread.
Oh, and organic doesn't mean 'non GM' it just means grown without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Oddly enough, the healthy organic breads are ofte the most up to date GM plants.
Naughty but true!
RE: Preparing for what? - NorthernRaider - 6 January 2012
RE: Preparing for what? - Scythe13 - 6 January 2012
They are used much less in the UK than in the US and Canada. But with mass produced supermarket items, many of the manufacturers of bread find it's cheaper to import the GM crop and use that for bread production. Same as how a car is made from parts all over the world, as it is with much of the food we eat.
For example, the typical strawberry we eat is a species call La Santa, which are pretty tasteless when compared to any other strawberry. They are not GM, but they are a manipulation of our natural eating.
Tomatos that we eat have been blasted with CO2 to turn them red so that they look ripe, even though they usually aren't.
RE: Preparing for what? - NorthernRaider - 6 January 2012
Aha I'm (slowly) catching up, Agri cultuture is something I'm not up on, i was speaking with our local wheat farmer last summer and i said to him " I'm sure wheat was much taller when I was a sprog" and he said " Yes it was much taller but now its cross bred with other strains to make the plant put more effort into making the biggest ears or wheat rather than making it grow tall" I got the impression though its done by selective breeding rather than messing on with genes ?
scythe I've PMed you.
RE: Preparing for what? - Scythe13 - 6 January 2012
RE: Preparing for what? - bigpaul - 6 January 2012
we dont eat shop bread, we make our own bread and have done so for at least 6 years.