Now I get the needles in the Strawberries --

Monsanto’s $125 Million Deal to Flood The Market With New GMO Strawberry, Wheat & More

There’s a lot more to the Monsanto Company than meets the eye: aside from its line of toxic herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, they’ve also been involved in everything from the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War to cancer-causing PCBs.

While the company continually states that its purpose is to “feed the world” by creating GMOs and chemicals (an assertion the United Nations has repeatedly disagreed with), it is still heavily involved in our food supply from seed to harvest.

And now, thanks to a new partnership with a “cutting edge” startup out of California, Monsanto could soon be flooding the market with more GMOs (including one of the world’s favorite fruits) than ever before.

And as usual, absolutely nothing will be labeled, meaning it will be up to the consumer to figure out which foods are GMO and which aren’t on their own time.

Monsanto to Flood the Market with “Longer-Lasting” New GMOs

Monsanto’s new project will focus specifically on “longer-lasting” new GMO foods in an effort to combat food waste.

According to its press release, Monsanto is investing $125 million in gene editing technology through a new partnership with Pairwise Plants, a California agricultural startup that will help Monsanto to create gene edited corn, soybeans, cotton and canola crops.

This new technology is said to be the next big thing in the GMO industry.

It allows scientists to play God with our food supply by altering foods even quicker in a laboratory setting, bestowing upon them new traits like the inability to show signs of rotting or wasting.

Among new varieties of GMO crops, Pairwise is also expected to work with Monsanto on a new GMO wheat, as well as GMO fruits including the potential to create GMO strawberries.

“My co-founders and I believe the technologies we have each been developing can have a profound impact in plant agriculture and will speed innovation that is badly needed to feed a growing population amid challenging conditions created by a changing climate,” said Pairwise founder J. Keith Joung about the new arrangement.

What This Means for the Future of Monsanto

With the recent European approval of its merger with Bayer set, Monsanto is now upping the ante like never before.

It’s becoming more clear than ever that their vision for the Future of Food is exactly what we thought it was one filled with Frankenfood experiments, crops doused in cancer-linked chemicals and an increasingly dominant level of control over the food system.

The alleged goal of this new pairing is to create foods that will “last longer” on store shelves, but what good is longer-lasting food if the health consequences are unknown due to a lack of long-term testing, and the creation of new foods that are inherently foreign to the body?

Already one Columbia University study has shown that this type of gene editing can create “hundreds of unintended mutations” within the target organism. It’s not known whether this extends to gene edited foods, but now the question is, “Do you want to be the guinea pig?”

Monsanto is hoping that the answer to that question is a resounding “Yes,” as it has been for so much of the unsuspecting general public over these past few decades.

https://www.march-against-monsanto.com/monsanto-signs-125-million-dollar-partnership-deal-to-flood-the-market-with-new-longer-lasting-gmos/

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i saw a report that retailers only want large strawberries & because of this the growers destroy the smaller ones. Actually I have always prefered the smaller strawberry as they are usually sweeter. Why not market the small ones as well ????

Sad isn't it always got to be BIGGER -- no thought about the taste

Me too I prefer small strawberries. Unless they are dipped in chocolate! 

All I can add to the conversation  is that as far as I am aware, there has been no credible scientfic evidence presented that GMOs have caused any ill effect to persons or animals which have consumed them, despite many assertions to the contrary. Some anti-GMO activists have recanted their objections to GMOs as they cannot deny the scientific evidence. The reality is that plants and animals have been genetically altered by selective breeding for hundreds of years . Nowadays science can use genetic knowledge to hasten the process.

Spot on Eddy!

The problem is that it is the long term effect that we should be worried about. Why mess with something that nature has provided perfectly for eternity? There might not be the evidence YET because it will not show up until the next generation and then they will blame it on something else, just like all the chemical Monsanto produce and all the pharmecueticals that Bayer produces. They have not invested interest to test whether GMO's are harmful.

Join a seed savers network, buy heritage seeds, save your seeds and grow your own. Most imported corn and soy is already GMO and we need labelling in Australia. Only alternative apart from growing your own is to buy organically from a trusted grower and/or supplier.

Monsanto are a WICKED company. Round-Up is killing our bees and is a human carcinogen. They are taking legal action against our beekeepers who are desperately concerned. Without bees there will be no bee pollinated fruits and vegetables.

I have more stories I could tell about their unethical behaviour from the time I worked in a research lab in the UK.

Please tell, I would be interested to hear first hand.

We don' need bees to pollinate fruits and veggies nowadays Jennie.

We have GMO , much better product - healthier and more nutricious

What a joke olaid, there is no proof they are healthier and more nutritious at all. And yes we still need bee's. 

Yes, I agree his comment is absolute rubbish.

We do still need bees and always will, but as agricultural land shrinks, we shall have to rely more on GMO foods.

What do you expect out of the mouth of a jackass with horns KIAH?

Bees pollinate over one third of global agriculture and are very necessary to the survival of crops.

Youre so dumb Micha.

We have drones for that now

The less you open your mouth dipstick, the longer you will hang on to that single brain cell you've got.

One company is trialling it, it may or may not work, but cloven hooves, drones of the metal variety cannot make honey, one of the most important foods in the world. Run along and play with your blow up doll.

Trust you to like bee vomit 

 

There is nothing wrong with GM foods, humans have been eating it for centuries. These days before any food produced using GM technology is permitted onto the market, a variety of tests have to be completed. The results from these tests, including results from animal feeding trials, are considered by the necessary authorities responsible for determining the safety of each new GM product.  

The claims being made that some of these foods are not safe is not about the GM method itself  but has to do with the agricultural practices involved with the crop, such as herbicide treatments.

And you believe these tests? Safety of GMO's is a joke, we will not know the outcome how it will effects humans for many years, just like all the harmful chemcial Monsanto produces, and they are still in denial.

You believe what you want to believe, and I shall believe what I know to be true :)

 

Great post KIAH,and to all those people who eat many varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes, you are eating genetically modifed food. In addition if you drink soy milk, eat tofu, use canola oil and lots of other foods, you are eating GM produce.

You'll be fine don't worry, you'll only grow one horn. Oldbat has two horns and he's doing all rght or so he thinks, hahahaha

I eat ORGANIC tofu, no GMO's. I also believe organic potatoes are not GMO either and I eat them too. Would not touch canola oil, very unhealthy oil, all oil is rancid and is only fat.

L' Chaim !

Very interesting, have a look inside:

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Play me:  A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic 

 

 

 

Bayer and Monsanto combined are a very powerful group, Monsanto alone controls roughly 30% of the seed market and can send farmers to the wall with that monopoly. So far 26 countries have banned growing GMO's, but you can buy their products, including Australia. Guess the worry is not in the eating but in the growing, will it tip the delicate balance of nature? Who knows yet, in the meantime, they rake in the money and pay any fines that is thrown at them, chicken feed.

Reminds me of the insanely powerful/rich tobacco companies paying thorasic surgeons/GP's huge amounts of money to say which brands they smoked and how soothing it was. The posters/advertisments are still viewable on line. A doctor would loose his licence for saying that now, but at the time big money was made. 

Exactly, they will pay their way out of anything. You only have to look at the history of these two evil corporations to see how they behave.

How to make quick and easy strawberry jam

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