Question

[Naturous]

I've been getting this message on many of the groceries I buy.

"NON GMO"

Maybe the answer would be better axed elsewhere, but there are many smart peeps here that would have the answer IMO.

[Retired]

[Unquestionably Confused]

All you need to know. . . and then some

[Naturous]

Why are these mods being done? What benifit is there?

[gfretwell]

No Genetically Modified Organisms. ... or so they say. This is usually Franken Corn, A corn species genetically modified to ignore Roundup (herbicide).

[Frank]

Answers in Wikipedia url's you were given.

[Ed Pawlowski]

It always comes down to money. The GMO stuff is done to get better yields per acre, resist insects or diseases taste better, last longer.

GMO is relatively new, but cross breeding, grafting have been done for centuries. This takes modification to a new level.

[philo]

Correct. Before GMO plants were certainly heavily modified by selective breeding. I don't know any of our foods that exist anywhere near their original form.

[RonNNN]

I'm pretty sure Naturous knows all about cross breeding. He may not want to admit it though.

[Frank]

As far as I understand difference over selective breeding is that they might combine animal or insect DNA with the plant's DNA.

[Dean Hoffman]

GM corn can resist corn borer. No or less need to spray for that bug. Soybeans have been modified to resist the herbicide Roundup. Soybeans are really sensitive to any sort of weed killer. They were often weeded by hand. It was mainly migrant labor. I'd sometimes see whole families out in fields. It was more common to see crews of young guys doing the work. Now it's rare to see anyone rogueing.

[clare]

All kinds of benefits - like not rotting as easily/quickly, or being resistant to diseases and pests, or improving the protien content, or some other nutrient - or not requiring as much nitrogen fertilizer to grow, or making the plant more drought resistant, or mare hardy against either extreme heat or cold - just as a few examples of the most obvious. Hundreds more reasons

[notbob]

Yeah, one that puts law-suit-happy attorneys on yer tail.

nb

[Naturous]

Another racist remark by the idiot racist.

[Naturous]

on 2/20/2017, [e-mail] supposed :

Thanks to everyone [except the racist ronnnn] for their replies.

[big ag]

Monsanto et al claim GMOs are totally safe. We all know big corporations would never put profit over human health. So go ahead, have a nice big heaping-helping of genetically modified healthy whole grains.

God bless imazamox and glyphosate. LOL

[philo]

Yep you are absolutely right, no way would I want any of that artificial man-made junk.

When I bought my house I ripped out all the plastic pipes and put in real and natural lead pipes.

All that man-made fiberglass went too..put in all real, naturally occurring asbestos! sheesh

Threw out my fake lab made medications too and only use pure, naturally occurring arsenic

Then finally, I buy special pure water from France, it's H20 and nothing else.

Turns out the lake near my house is all made out of chemicals...no way do I want any of that Di-hydrogen monoxide in my water! Most people who drink it are dead in less than 100 years!

[trader_4]

One of the first widespread uses was to make crops resistant to Roundup so that it could be applied to kill weeds, but not the crop. It is quite remarkable, changing a gene you wind up with a plant that won't die from a herbicide that easily kills similar plants.

[Naturous]

I'm not as rich as you Phil, so imported water is not My drink. I drink filtered water though, and the label has the various chemicals found in My filtered water. At $4.00 for a 24 1/2 litre bottle package, it's a safe and good deal. :D

[phytonutrient]

May I suggest you add some seafood to your diet. It's loaded with naturally occurring mercury.

Personally, I own stock in BigAg and BigPharma and use the enormous dividends to buy non-GMO food grown on certified organic farms.

God bless stupid people! Cha-ching!