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USDA asked to approve GMO apple
A Canadian biotechnology company has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve a genetically modified apple that won’t turn brown soon after it is sliced.
The company licensed the non-browning technology from Australian researchers who pioneered it in potatoes. Theirs’ is the first petition the USDA has received for GMO apples.
U.S. apple growers are taking a wait-and-see approach to the new technology. Todd Fryhover, president of the apple commission in Washington State, says, quote, “Genetically modified—that’s a bad word in our industry”, end quote. He says the industry needs a lot more information on the technology before deciding if it’s a good idea.
Link to article on Kansas City Star web site
Have these people not learned anything from the FlavrSavr tomato experiment? A modified tomato with a long shelf life from years ago and the shelf is exactly where it remained, nobody wanted it.
Nobody wants GM anything, those that do have either been tricked or paid to say they do.