[UrbanCropCircle] List of current GMO crops

[Ingela Wanerstrand]

If you consume any of the below that is not labeled or you know is 
'organic' or non-GMO-anything w/high fructose corn syrup,canola oil etc
You've probably been eating GMOs. I think foods made from GMOs should 
be labeled.

What I find frightening is not so much that I might buy seed from 
Monsanto-the GMOs are mostly large crops (see list below-it didn't copy 
in the chart format and so is hard to read.The link takes you top the 
page w/ the chart)
but that Monsanto now owns the patents to 80% of the veggie seed 
produced.I believe thjey are trying to monopolize our entire food 
supply. I don't want to give a single cent to Monsanto by buying seed 
from the growing list of co. that they own.
This is why I support Territorial and other good seed growers so they 
don't get gobbled up too.
This is also one reason why I try to buy 'open-pollinated' and 'organic 
seed' not hybrids from them or anyone else
-besides the fact that I can then save my own seed,thereby helping to 
preseve 'heirlooms' that Monsanto can't touch...yet.

http://biotech.cas.psu.edu/articles/gmo_crops.htm

Table: List of genetically modified crops and their altered traits.
Modified Trait
Crop
Input Traits
Herbicide resistance
Sugarbeet, Soybean, Corn, Canola, Cotton, Flax
Insect/herbicide resistance
Corn
Insect resistance
Tomato, Corn, Potato, Cotton
Virus resistance
Squash, Papaya
Male sterile
Corn
Output Traits
Modified oil
Soybean, Canola
Modified fruit ripening
Tomato
Provitamin A enriched
Rice
Iron fortification
Rice
Beta-carotene, lycopene enriched
Tomato
Detoxification of mycotoxins
Corn
Detoxification of cyanogens
Cassava
Caffein-free
Coffee beans
Vitamin E enriched
Canola

Internet Information Resources

http://www.usda.gov/agencies/biotech/index.html
http://www.ift.org/resource/policy/biotechreport.shtml
http://www.scisoc.org/aacc/MEETING/Biotechsymposium00
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/food_and_biotechnology/gm_food/
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?SiteKeyParam=GMFoods1

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