Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Virus DNA hidden in GMO crops [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)i'll say that GMOs MIGHT be good for some things, done by the right people.
but big M is NOT worth trusting with ANYTHING for 5 seconds.
ok, one thing. $$$ grabbing.
there WAS a guy who was trying to make lettuce that cured diabetes
all of a sudden his company disappeared- bought by Dow. no more diabetes lettuce.
5 years later we get-
According to Tanya Alfonso, Seminis Consumer Traits Business Development Manager, the companys Vegetable Seed business developed Frescada using traditional plant breeding.
she means they hired the guy who invented it
At the end of a street in a quiet residential area of Arroyo Grande is a seed research station where plant breeder Bill Waycott has toiled for years, patiently cross-breeding ancient and modern types of lettuce, never dreaming that the result of his painstaking efforts would one day be taken over by agriculture giant Monsanto.
Now Monsanto has begun marketing the new lettuce it owns, branding it as Frescada and offering it for the last month in Sams Club stores in California and five other states. Test-grown in fields in the Santa Maria Valley, Arroyo Grande, King City, and Arizona, its a crunchy cross between iceberg and romaine.
Its a nice story, and its all happened here, with individuals working together to make a more nutritious lettuce and a new experience for consumers, Waycott said.
http://www.newtimesslo.com/news/8001/tip-of-theiceberg/
of course he thinks 'nice story', i'm sure they paid him, probably not enough, but...
are YOU MR. Waycott?