Potato is useful only if you include the skin and 2mm beneath that.
There isn`t anything wrong with GM foods.
You failed to remind us all of the issue with soft corn, the staple for tortillas in central america.
The corn was inherently poor in the amino acid Lysine.
So, the world`s corn genetics community set about to enhance the lysine content of soft corn.
They were successful. That, essentially, cured a dietary defficiency.
You see, humans can`t make Lysine. It remains one of the essential amino acids needed for protein synthesis.
This is genetically modified food. The denyers can`t stand this. That people can shape the foods they eat to their nutritional benefit.
Look at all the breeds of domesticated livestock animals.
They are all GMO. I don`t care how you might want to slice it but they are GMO.
Maybe it took us 5 thousand years but what you see is what we have. Pigs, sheep, cattle, you name it.
You ever heard of sugar beets, the variety of Beta vulgaris that killed off our temperate zone dependancy on tropical cane sugar.
Hey kids! GMO to the rescue from a North Sea dune plant eaten for it`s greens.
The term, GMO, is bull tweet for what humans have done for 10,000 years or more.
However.
When it is deemed valuable to splice pig genes into a parakeet, I step back.
I don`t need a 500kg flying parapig, crapping in my yard from 200m above me.
When the expression GMO is talked about it is not referring to traditional selective breeding, but the modern cut and paste tech.
Everything we eat has been selectively bred to what it is.
Non GMO and Organic does not go hand in hand outside North America. Far from it. In Europe the vast majority of food is non GMO due to peoples preference and legislation.
As I do not live there these days I am a little bit outside the loop, but the country I visit often, Norway, does not allow production or even importation of GMO.
The South American population did very well nutritionally for Milennia eating a corn that lacked Lysine as it was supplied by other sources.
Many African people live largely on a Maize porridge with added meat and veg. They too do very well on a Lysine deficient corn. Have done so for 100's of years!
But it was the US livestock industry needed Lysine enhanced corn (maize) as that was the feed of choice. Lack of Lysine makes the calf not grow and build muscle properly.
Again, a problem occuring only in N. America.
The GM work today has one goal, and that goal is not to improve flavour or the nutritional value, but to increase yield at all costs.
Salmon that grow at 400%. Potatoes that survive below zero temperatures. Plants with inbuilt pesticides.
Buy now I trangress.
Quinoa - us eating it makes it fifficult for the indeginous S American population? Quinoa is grown in Spain. Also the S. American agriculture of Quinoa has expanded tremendously and been mechanized. Bad for small farmers with traditional methods, but good for all consumers. Even the indigenous ones.
I believe that they are starting to grow Quinoa in N. America too.
But as I said previously, in a balanced diet you can eat any other seeds.
