RE: Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
June 2, 2013 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2013 at 5:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 2, 2013 at 4:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: yeah... I'd think that the modified crops, at worst, would be harder to digest, more difficult to boil or grind and, ultimately, just not taste as well.Not by simple virtue of their being modified they wouldn't be. All of those things would have to be a specific effect of a specific modification. One of them is, well, a matter of taste.
Quote:If they have allergens, then it's because they already had them before the modification.It's entirely possible that nucleotide insertion (or any other measure - including selective breeding) would reactivate toxin or allergen producing pathways that lay dormant in a given variety. Thankfully the people who produce them check for this sort of thing (as part of the process to see whether or not the engineering attempt was successful). This works in the reverse as well. Some very popular foods are exceedingly toxic - and have been modified to be less so.
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