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Saturday 13 July 2013

Bizarre GMO wheat mystery in Oregon

S.O.T.T: A farmer in Oregon recently discovered unkillable wheat in his fields. He'd sprayed the whole field with a pesticide called Roundup, but this patch of wheat wouldn't die. Convinced he'd discovered a new super-wheat mutation, he sent some to a scientist.  Carol Mallory-Smith was that scientist, an expert in weeds, who immediately knew that the wheat wasn't a super-strain. It's pretty much impossible for a plant to resist death after being treated with Roundup . . . unless it's a genetically-modified "Roundup Ready" strain, created by agribusiness giant Monsanto. But how could Monsanto wheat get into an Oregon farm? The answer proved to be even weirder than she imagined. After genetic testing, she discovered that it was indeed Monsanto wheat. But it was an experimental strain that was engineered 14 years ago. Somehow, these experimental Monsanto seeds got mixed into wheat seeds being sold over a decade later...read more>>>...