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GMO Bananas and Humans: Untested, Unneeded, and Unwise
This is the type of crazy thinking that is pushing these scientists to continue to create GM foods that people do not want and do not trust. Wouldn’t it have been cheaper, easier, and safer to simply teach the people in these countries to grow and consume natural foods that are high in vitamin A, such as mangos?
If you remember, more than a decade ago, researchers created GM rice they dubbed “golden rice” that contained high levels of beta carotene for the people of the Philippines. However, this was something that the Philippine people did not want. Activists destroyed a test plot of the rice in their country. Researchers then tried a trial involving feeding this rice to Chinese children. This quickly turned into a huge scandal as Chinese officials stated that they were not told that this was GM rice. In fact, no government on the planet would allow, or has allowed the cultivation of this “golden rice”.
However, even if these trials prove that this banana does indeed raise vitamin A levels in the blood of test subjects, that doesn’t mean that it’s a “green light” for these super bananas. Many practical, as well as regulatory, obstacles would still have to be overcome. First, governments would have to approve it, farmers would have to agree to grow it, and people would have to be convinced that eating this banana was safe.
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Now there has actually already been success in Uganda and Mozambique with a deep orange colored sweet potato that is super packed with vitamin A, far more than what’s in these GM bananas. This crop was quickly planted and needed no prior approval because it was made not by altering the plants genes, but simply by cross breeding several existing varieties. Why isn’t this sweet potato being offered throughout Africa? And why didn’t the Bill Gates foundation consider this option, the cross breeding of different types of bananas, before creating another GM monster food?
It appears that when it comes to money, it outweighs both common sense as well as a concern for the health of the world.
Sources:
Truthwiki.org
Gmwatch.eu
Desmoinesregister.com
Independentsciencenews.org
daveinks
Nov 20, 2014 at 5:03 pm
This article is a special kind of stupid.
Even MotherJones – hardly a friend to corporate interests of any type states that “GMO’s won’t harm your health”.
Please list even on corroborated death caused by GMO food and then we can talk. Until then, you’re just another writer trying to drum up page views by attempting to add a little to the uninformed hysteria surrounding this issue by those who don’t know any better.
Ginger p.
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Your “share” is a special kind of IGNORANCE. Educate yourself about the TRUTH about GMO’s, then comment. An educational source is: Wheat Belly” tells the story. It’s all being kept “under wraps” ( in other words: we’re being kept IGNORANT for the sake of the almighty $$ — big surprise). 64 other countries who get GMO- tainted foods from the USA require it to be LABELED as such for their customers. That means many 3rd World countries — where do we fit in? Not at the TOP, like were led to believe. Death is not the worse case scenario, all the maladies and on-going SLOW destruction of humanity is what’s at risk. We’ll still be the RICHEST country, but it’s only for the FEW MONEY-MONGERS. The rest will be in ill health and declining over time. Hip hip hooray!
Mary
Nov 29, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Students are given 900 dollars for the experiment that may result in a disastrous situation and costing them more than 9000 dollars! in the future. I feel sorry for the naive students.