News Stories relating to "genetically-modified"

We've warned you before that there may be funny bread in your future. While GM Starlink corn hasn't made anyone sick, it has been a disaster for organic farmers and for countries like Mexico that count on indigenous corn varieties. Next up (after many delays: GM Wheat.

Genetically modified wheat hasn't yet been introduced into the U.S...

Genetically modified plants grown from terminator seedspollinate just like other plants, but the seeds aren'tfertile. The danger is that the terminator gene will spreadto healthy plants, until all plants in a given species ceaseto reproduce. Monsanto claims this can't happen?but theyalso claimed that seeds from their GM plants would...

It's been discovered that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide encourages the growth of toxic fungus in wheat. Genetically-modified wheat, also produced by Monsanto, has been especially engineered to be immune to Roundup, so that an entire field can be sprayed and only the weeds will be affected.

Andy Coghlan writes in New Scientist this fungus...

Traces of genetically modified grains are turning up in U.S. wheat, despite the fact that the sale of GM wheat has not been approved here yet. GM soybeans and corn, the two most widely grown genetically modified crops in the world, are getting into wheat supplies that are made into flour that's used to make bread and other foods.

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Quorn, a fake meat made from fungus, has now reached theU.S. and it's making people sick. The Center for Science inthe Public Interest has received reports from 33 people whosuffered vomiting and diarrhea after eating Quorn. A NorthCarolina man broke out in hives and had trouble breathing.Quorn is a substitute for ground beef and chicken and...