Jane Goodall is now anti-GMO [rolling eyes]

[thesummerqueen]

http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2013/0...eir-ranks/

We really should start a massive thread of anti-GMO twattery.

[SiRade]

It's so wrong it's not even funny. As for GMOs, I'm a bit sceptical, because I don't really know what kind of impact it will have for environment (i.e. insects which eats plants, birds which eats insects, etc.). I'll read a few reviews on this subject and maybe then I'll be in better position to comment on GMOs.

[the antithesis]

So she doesn't eat carrots or bananas?

[thesummerqueen]

Way to necropost...

[Simon Moon]

So she doesn't eat carrots or bananas?

Those aren't examples of GMOs.

[The Grand Nudger]

They are, strictly speaking - but we've begun to use the term GMO to refer not to organisms that have been genetically modified - but the manner in which modification has been achieved. Bananas and roundup ready corn are both artefacts -insomuch as any crop can be-.

[SiRade]

They are, strictly speaking - but we've begun to use the term GMO to refer not to organisms that have been genetically modified - but the manner in which modification has been achieved. Bananas and roundup ready corn are both artefacts -insomuch as any crop can be-.

Don't forget common wheat (Triticum aestivum) . We bread them by crossing THREE different species. Yes, it is allohexaploid. Isn't it fascinating, that you can make an organisms which has chromosomes from three different organisms and it still can reproduce? And not just reproduce, but has become an entire new species

[Minimalist]

I don't know, Summer....I don't feel particularly comfortable with a scumbag corporation like Monsanto screwing around with things so they can make even bigger profits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e...story.html

Japan, the largest market for U.S. wheat exports, suspended imports from the United States and canceled a major purchase of white wheat on Thursday after the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon.

How the altered crop made its way to the Oregon field remains a mystery. The strain was developed by Monsanto to make wheat resistant to the company’s own industry-leading weed killer. Monsanto tested the type of altered seed in more than a dozen states, including Oregon, between 1994 and 2005, but it was never approved for commercial use.

Trustworthy is not the first word that comes to mind with any of these corporate pricks.

[The Grand Nudger]

Probably mislabeled stock, Monsanto would have sued the shit out of the grower otherwise...lol.

[Jackalope]

They are, strictly speaking - but we've begun to use the term GMO to refer not to organisms that have been genetically modified - but the manner in which modification has been achieved. Bananas and roundup ready corn are both artefacts -insomuch as any crop can be-.

Is the manner of modification so different? It's my (very possibly mistaken) understanding that both Cavendish bananas and the Roundup-ready crops were both created through selective breeding for desirable traits. Or is it that the Roundup-ready GMOs were chemically treated that's at issue?