Do you think that GMO is responsible for the decline of honey bees? Nice article. GMO promoters make it out to be a time-saving process of breeding, but in practice, many researchers skip all related species and put a gene from an animal into a plant. Thank you for the comment. The lab techniques we have for hybridization are quite rapid now, so it is a myth we need GM for speed. They use the expense an excuse for patents that keep the technology secret and the profits coming back to the biotech company, just as they do with pharmaceuticals.
Thank you for the great info. I ask a worker what the difference was between hybrid and GMO and she said they were the same. I chose heirloom varieties.
I feel like going back to inform her. I will return to the article and research some links. I feel like the more knowledge I get, the more conspiracies I find. More people need to be aware. Thanks again! A good article. Thanks for taking the time to do the research!! Have you done any research on Biophotons?
Fritz Popp of Germany developed a machine that measures the coherency of light contained within biological organisms and can determine which plants grew in the wild, which were grown organically, which were grown commercially, which were grown hydroponically and which are gmos with wild foods being the most coherent and gmos the least coherent. Biophotonic research is a huge game changer in Western understanding about the processes of Life as it opens up a scientific doorway into many of the eastern philosophies.
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Yes, you may excerpt the first few paragraphs and link back to the original article. Thank you for asking!! Thank you for well written information on open pollinated, hybrid and GMO seeds. This year our topic of discussion is GMO seeds. I am a Maasai living in Germany active in a Evangelical church.
Nearly all synthetic nitrogen fertilizer upon which all industrial agriculture currently depends is made using the Haber-Bosch process which uses natural gas petrochemical for the hydrogen and nitrogen gas from the air at an elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of a catalyst to form ammonia NH3 as the end product. There are HUGE sustainability and environmental health problems with this, the least of which is dependence on natural gas and fracking to create this fertilizer.
You can read more about this big problem here. Thank you for the information your article provided in easy-to-understand language. I have had a hard time understanding the differences between seed types. If I wanted to use a non petrochemical fertilizer besides manure , is there a brand or chemical signature I can look for? Plants often need a boost, but not at the expense of the environment! Look for a fertilizer that is either labeled for use in organic gardens, or that contains only organic or natural ingredients like bone meal, blood meal, kelp or seaweed, bat guano, fish emulsion, etc.
Choose what you need based on the fertility needs of your garden, determined by a simple home NPK test, and the types of plants you are growing. That way you can provide just what the garden needs. Organic fertilizers sometimes take longer to work in the soil than chemical fertilizers, so make sure to apply them early. Thank you for your comment, your work and your sharing! What an excellently methodically written article. I came across it while studying about types of seeds.
I knew superficially about the differences but was not absolutely sure about it. The dirty little secret of GMOs is that every beneficial trait they have to date for drought tolerance, etc. Then they add a proprietary gene to the seed to make it patentable. It is actually substantially cheaper and more beneficial for farmers to select seeds from open pollinated varieties that are locally adapted to the bioregion. GMOs have not been adequately tested for safety on humans, so it remains to be seen whether or not they are safe.
Whenever you cross the species barrier and combine things that could not naturally combine, you incur risk. And to date, that risk has meant superweeds, superpests, soil biota destruction, harm to pollinators, and more. Several GMO crops have been undergoing confined field trails and currently trying to pass a law that will see the GMOs released to the public. As civil society we have stood our position that we do not want these GMOs.
The scientist have now resorted to labeling the Anti GMO activists as uninformed, claiming that there is not big difference between GMO and Hybrids, they are also claiming that these GMOs will not be patented and will be availed to farmers at a fair price as any other seeds on the market. One even noted that GMOs can be grown using organic means. They claim that GMOs are the solution to the changing climate since they are more superior and can even be grown in arid conditions.
Some things I read say it is hybrid and some say it is GMO. I thought I read that canola is a name made up for a GMO product made from rapeseed. I really would appreciate your wisdom on this.
Canola is both a hybrid and a GMO. First it was hybridized to be edible to humans. This means you can find organic Canola oil that is non-GMO.
However Canola oil is bad for you whether it is organic or GMO, because it is a highly processed product that is high in inflammatory PUFAs, often rancid, and has been found to deplete Vitamin E in the body. Thanks so much. I appreciate your information and checked out the canola article you linked. Do you have an archive? I have written extensively on GMOs here , here , here , and here.
You will find ample sources in all the articles. Given how many studies have pointed to harm or the potential for harm from many GMOs, either to humans, pollinating insects, soil biota or ecosystems, the precautionary principle should apply.
GM insulin for example is very different than a GM crop. GM crops are set upon the wild where they can cross pollinate with wild species creating superweeds as well as contaminate non-GMO seedstock, destroying biodiversity. And almost all GM crops to date require heavy application of glyphosate, which is a known human toxin, as well as a destroyer of soil tilth and soil biota.
Glyphosate is also largely responsible for GM crops being significantly lower in nutrition than their conventional counterparts. Glyphosate kills by chelating minerals, making them unavailable to weeds and other organisms that need them. These viruses and bacteria have been shown to jump the species barrier, and can be found in the gut bacteria of animals and humans alike, possibly contributing to the epidemic of gut dysbiosis , food allergies and malnutrition.
GM crops that contain BT are contributing to superpests, as well as having a devastating effect on beneficial insect populations. And given that GM crops have lower yield and lower nutrition than conventional, all around, GM crops have been a big expensive debacle so far with as yet untold consequences. Not an experiment I want to gamble on, especially when there are so many better options. This is well thought out and written clearly, but I would like to see your sources.
Ingesting a modified food does not necessarily mean that the food will modify anything in our bodies in a negative way. It is important that people understand that allowing for two species of crop to interbreed so we can select for a certain trait is no different than putting the genes responsible for that trait into the plants ourselves in a lab.
Also, using your example, fish and tomatoes are both safe to eat. Crossing the two rather, taking a small part of DNA from one and putting it into another will not result in an unsafe food by itself. The processes involved to do the cross may be unsafe, or maybe the chemicals needed to treat the resultant crop will be unsafe, but the act of the genetic modification ITSELF is not necessarily unsafe.
It is healthy to have a distrust of major corporations especially Monsanto, which is evil , but academic scientists i. I agree wholeheartedly with you in those areas. Everyone concerned about the poisones food we are eating NEED to read this.
Thanks, Dawn. Thank you for this! I have no problem absorbing this knowledge for myself, explaining it is another matter. Furthermore, a plasmid vector serves as the carrier of foreign DNA into the host cell. When the recombinant vector is transformed into the host, it is called as the genetically-modified organism. Furthermore, farm animals, crop plants, and soil bacteria are subjected to genetic engineering to produce GMOs.
Their introduced characteristics are important to optimize agricultural performance, to enhance the nutrient composition and the quality, to decrease the susceptibility to diseases as well as to produce important pharmaceutical substances. A hybrid is an organism that is a result of the cross-breeding of two distinct parents. Here, the two parents may belong to different varieties, breeds or species.
Generally, the hybrid organism has characteristics between the two parent organisms. However, sometimes, they are weaker than their parents in terms of fertilization and other performances.
Cross-breeding can be natural or artificial. An example of the natural cross-breeding is a mule, which is a cross between a horse and donkey. On the other hand, artificial cross-breeding can be performed through artificial insemination in animals. Moreover, cross-pollination is the technique of cross-breeding in plants. Sometimes, artificial cross-breeding can increase productivity and longevity in animals. For example, each year new hybrid tomato varieties are offered.
You may see them labeled as hybrids or F1 also known as the first filial generation first-generation hybrid or F2 also known as the second filial generation. These may eventually stabilize, but for the moment a tomato such as the popular 'Early Girl' does not produce seeds that reliably have the features you expect in an 'Early Girl' tomato. Seed from hybridized plants tends to revert to the qualities of the parents, so tomatoes grown from seeds saved from your 'Early Girl' tomatoes might still be tasty, but not so early.
Anyone can select and eventually stabilize their own seed or even hybridize new plants, but the plant and seed companies have recently begun patenting their crosses so that only have the right to reproduce the hybrids they've developed. Hybrids should not be confused with genetically modified organisms—or GMOs—which can be any plant, animal, or microorganism that has been genetically altered using molecular genetics techniques such as gene cloning and protein engineering.
Plants like corn that has the pesticide Bt engineered into its genetic makeup to make it resistant to certain pests are GMO crops. Bt is a natural pesticide, but it would never naturally find its way into corn seed. You probably are not too keen on infusing your food with pesticides, and the overuse of a pesticide often results in the targeted pest becoming resistant to it.
These types of concerns have given GMOs a terrible reputation. However, there are times when GMOs have arguably been quite positive in their impact—such as the high-yield, disease-resistant dwarf wheat introduced by Norman Ernest Borlaug, which helped increase the food supplies in India and Pakistan.
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