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Canada 02 · 10-26-2017, 10:52 PM

The vast majority of GMO crops are corn, soybean, canola, alfalfa and cotton. Almost all of it is used as animal feed. Most of the rest is for highly processed food products like corn starch, corn syrup and refined oils. Very few GMO items in the produce aisle

Seems some are confusing domestication and breeding with genetic modification

There are no commercial GMO tomatoes, nor are there GMO apples yet (although a Canadian company is about to bring a GMO non-browning apple to market soon).

"Natural" tomatoes were poisonous. It took hundreds of years of cultivation and breeding to arrive at heirloom varieties, not to mention supermarket varieties. Totally agree about the taste of most supermarket tomatoes. This has a lot to do with what most consumers want - blemish-free, perfectly shaped, bright red tomato. The great tasting backyard garden tomato likely fails commercial quality control because it is slightly mis-shaped, has a small blemish or isn't perfectly uniform in color. I know for a fact there are very active breeding and GM programs to restore taste into those beautiful, tasteless tomatoes.

Before domestication and genetic modification, 'natural' corn was a grassy weed that produced a handful of kernels per plant. Human intervention made this plant an edible and productive crop

Natural should not imply better or healthier

10-26-2017, 10:52 PM	#495
Canada 02 Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Exp:	The vast majority of GMO crops are corn, soybean, canola, alfalfa and cotton. Almost all of it is used as animal feed. Most of the rest is for highly processed food products like corn starch, corn syrup and refined oils. Very few GMO items in the produce aisle Seems some are confusing domestication and breeding with genetic modification There are no commercial GMO tomatoes, nor are there GMO apples yet (although a Canadian company is about to bring a GMO non-browning apple to market soon). "Natural" tomatoes were poisonous. It took hundreds of years of cultivation and breeding to arrive at heirloom varieties, not to mention supermarket varieties. Totally agree about the taste of most supermarket tomatoes. This has a lot to do with what most consumers want - blemish-free, perfectly shaped, bright red tomato. The great tasting backyard garden tomato likely fails commercial quality control because it is slightly mis-shaped, has a small blemish or isn't perfectly uniform in color. I know for a fact there are very active breeding and GM programs to restore taste into those beautiful, tasteless tomatoes. Before domestication and genetic modification, 'natural' corn was a grassy weed that produced a handful of kernels per plant. Human intervention made this plant an edible and productive crop Natural should not imply better or healthier Last edited by Canada 02; 10-26-2017 at 11:01 PM.