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It's not about nutrition. It's the risk that hidden risks that GMOs engender. E.g. Unknown effects upon the ecosystem. Another example: GMO Wheat contains an u
by anotherhacker 10y ago
It's not about nutrition. It's the risk that hidden risks that GMOs engender. E.g. Unknown effects upon the ecosystem.
Another example: GMO Wheat contains an unnaturally high gluten content. Gluten is an irritant for everyone--some more than others. We have many people who are not really "gluten intolerant", but think they are. They are just sensitive to the unnaturally high gluten content in GMO foods.
- mikeash 10y agoI assume you mean certain varieties of GMO wheat have high gluten content? There's nothing about GMO itself that would cause that, it's a matter of what they decide to change.
- AngrySkillzz 10y agoThere is no commercially grown GMO wheat. I have no idea where you heard this nonsense. And within different non-modified wheat varieties, gluten content varies greatly. Ex. Hard, red winter wheat has more gluten and is often used as bread flour. There is no incentive to breed wheat for higher gluten content anyway.
- anotherhacker 10y agoYou're wrong on both accounts. 1) A GMO wheat currently is used. It's called Renan. 2) Higher gluten flour is desirable for bread products such as pizza. I make my own pizza. The best pizza bread is made from high-gluten flour.
- anotherhacker 10y agoCorrection: Artificial selection and contemporary milling processes have increased the gluten content. Not from GMO.