Archived Monsanto Offered $10M To Prove GMO Safety: Monsanto Never Shows (naturalsociety.com)
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Archived Monsanto Offered $10M To Prove GMO Safety: Monsanto Never Shows (naturalsociety.com)
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[–] casper ago
Eh, kinda, there's no such thing as a stable genome true; but that's equally true of all genomes - GMO or conventional or wild. Evolution happens.
Wait, what are you talking about? That's not how what most people think of GMOs are made. That's how conventional hybrid cultivars are made.
All new cultivars (again, GMO or conventionals) are seeded or backcrossed for multiple generations (more than 6) before commercialization. The least of the reasons for doing this are to stabilize the new trait. The main reason is simply scale-up of the crop from the first single new seed.
All those patents were abandoned and no such thing was ever commercialized. That's a funny story actually. The tech wasn't invented or patented by Monsanto, but rather the USDA and Delta Pine. It was sold to Monsanto as a potential solution against what was at that time the wholly imaginary problem of cross-pollination of wild crops with GM plant pollen, something the anti-GM crowd was very noisy about back then, and still is today. But did the anti-GM crowd celebrate this cross-pollination preventive tech when they got wind of it? (I R good at puns), no, of course not, instead it somehow morphed into this evil plot to somehow spring a trap on the world where our food is held hostage to artificial shortages or something like that, no one has been able to explain the evil plot to me in precise terms. Anyway, Monsanto basically said, "oh for fucks sake, really?" and peaced out on that technology like Katie Holmes to Tom Cruise.