{"id":11562,"date":"2013-06-18T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2013-06-18T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T17:17:07","slug":"watch-out-for-those-genetically-modified-hamburger-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11562","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out For Those Genetically Modified Hamburger Buns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this space, I’ve frequently shown<\/a> how GMO fear mongering plays out in the media. The latest frightful example aired Monday on CNN. It was a piece about the mysterious genetically modified (GM) wheat recently found in an Oregon farm field.<\/p>\n

First, some quick background: In\u00a0the early to mid-2000s, Monsanto field tested GM wheat in 16 states. But as\u00a0NPR reported,\u00a0<\/a>“the\u00a0country’s wheat growers told the company that they did not want it.” \u00a0So Monsanto never sought to commercialize the crop and stopped its field tests in 2005.<\/p>\n

Nobody knows how this isolated strand of GM wheat suddenly reappeared. Is it sabotage, as\u00a0Monsanto<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0others<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0suggested<\/a>, or a case of\u00a0gene flow<\/a>? Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u00a0says the GM wheat has not spread<\/a>,\u00a0there is fallout\u00a0for Monsanto<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0repercussions<\/a>\u00a0for American wheat farmers.<\/p>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription On Monday, CNN dove<\/a> into the story with a 3-minute segment that starts off this way:<\/p>\n

The discovery of genetically modified wheat in a field in Oregon is a growing concern around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol 50 Mg Price How so? Well, the piece does feature several\u00a0farmers legitimately worried about not being able to sell their winter crop to GMO-averse countries in Asia. But CNN also wanted to show a freak-out on the home front, so it interviewed an anti-GMO parent who said:<\/p>\n

I really believe these GMOs are compromising an entire generation of our children. We used to be able to let our kids just have a burger and eat the bun and now I’m really concerned we’re going to have to stop doing that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the entire CNN clip.<\/p>\n

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Like I’ve been\u00a0saying<\/a>, the most outrageous anti-GMO claims and fears have been thoroughly mainstreamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this space, I’ve frequently shown how GMO fear mongering plays out in the media. The latest frightful example aired Monday on CNN. It was a piece about the mysterious genetically modified (GM) wheat recently found in an Oregon farm field. First, some quick background: In\u00a0the early to mid-2000s, Monsanto field tested GM wheat in… Buy Zanaflex Online Without Prescription Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443,2496,2724,2967],"tags":[657,743,1094,1126,1757],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-select","tag-agriculture","tag-biotechnology","tag-genetically-modified-food","tag-gmos","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}