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The strain of wheat I was eating already has hereditary homogeneity that my digestive tract is already accustomed to and countless numbers of my peers including
by eksith 13y ago
The strain of wheat I was eating already has hereditary homogeneity that my digestive tract is already accustomed to and countless numbers of my peers including my parents were already exposed to in the first place.
What we have here is a massive overdose of "engineered", and that's the operative word here, homogeneity of a new strain which, besides being abandoned by this company for reasons they claim is a lack of market, could have unforeseen effects.
My original line was "Was it studied with the same scrutiny of the FDA?" As in people are fallible and new medicines, like new breeds of wheat, can have unexpected effects on the human body regardless of how emphatically the investigators of said products claim they are safe for human use. "New" anything takes time for such a claim. We haven't spent enough of it.
- StavrosK 13y agoEvery one of the millions of random mutations in a new generation of anything makes it "new". The only difference is that GM wheat has a targeted mutation, rather than a random one.
- malyk 13y agoThe difference is that the random mutations are random across the genome while the GM wheat is universally altered in the same way. So, while you might not be harmed by the millions of random mutations in the non-GM slice of bread you eat, it's conceivable that if you eat a GM slice of bread where ever single cell has the same mutation your body might not react so favorably.