Conversations That Matter: Knowing GMOs – Vancouver Sun

When it comes to plants, fruits and vegetables, everything you put in your mouth has been modified one way or another. Cross-pollination, hybridization, open pollination, mutagenesis and genetic engineering all change the makeup of food.

These methods are processes that can produce new strains of food. They wont necessarily, but can.These are often shot-in-the-dark best guess tries. Some work; most dont.

And when they do, they are accepted into the food supply after testing.

Mention genetic modification and for many, it is an out-of-bounds topic. Franken-wheat or Franken-tomatoes or corn or papayas from Hawaii. In Hawaii, three counties tried to enact laws forbidding genetically modified foods but were overruled by the state government and the courts.

The debate, the rules and the process of going into the lab and modifying a plant to fight off a virus or bacteria or be drought resistant is so onerous and expensive that few companies are willing to invest their time and money.

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