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Plans to Develop Genetically Modified Wheat Have Been Stunted by Public Resistance.

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From 2002 until 2004, bio-agriculture companies like Monsanto tried to launch projects to grow a genetically modified wheat called cultivar.

The wheat that they were trying to grow was supposed to be resistant to an herbicide so that the crop would tolerate the use of more of the herbicide without becoming damaged itself.

This herbicide is designed to protect the wheat from infection from a fungus called Fusarium, which stunts the growth of the wheat that it infects and sometimes contaminates the wheat with mycotoxins that can be dangerous to livestock and humans.

What Monsanto does not want people to know is that the herbicide that the genetically modified wheat will tolerate is an herbicide manufactured by Monsanto itself, called Roundup.

The goal from the perspective of Monsanto appears not to be to increase the health and yield of the wheat crop, but rather to sell more Roundup.

Monsanto had estimated that fungus-resistant wheat would actually reduce the use of herbicide, which does not make sense because the point of making a crop tolerant of an herbicide is so that one can use more.

Two years after the application for cultivar was submitted, it was withdrawn, and plans to grow cultivar in the United States were scrapped.

Consumer suspicion over cultivar and other modified crops has grown in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

This is especially important for wheat because of how pervasive wheat is to the global diet.

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Opposition to Genetically Modified Wheat

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Stunted Growth

The concern over Fusarium fungi infecting natural wheat yields is twofold.

The fungus stunts the growth of infected ears, and the infection can cause the wheat to be contaminated with dangerous poisons called mycotoxins.

Reports in late 2003 linked Roundup with the spread of Fusarium, and the Organic Consumers Association seized the opportunity to expound on the bad press.

Just as Fusarium stunted the growth of infected wheat, so too did the trial results stunt the growth of Monsanto’s herbicide business.

Crop trials use experimental plots of genetically modified wheat to test them for their purported benefits, but the uprooting of these crops by civilians shows that at least some people don’t even want to bother to figure out whether or not the modifications are effective.

The pure rejection of even testing these crops leads to large delays in the efforts to grow them.

The uprooting of experimental plots forces companies like Monsanto to wait until the next year to try again.

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The Broader Scale

Aside from wheat, other crops have also been targeted for genetic modification, such as corn.

The problem with biogenetic processes is that they use harmful agents to introduce the genes that lead to the effects that are supposed to be beneficial.

It’s no wonder that new diseases keep cropping up and familiar diseases like E. coli occur in outbreak fashion in the United States and abroad.

The presence of these contaminants is not because the crops came into contact with any kind of fecal matter.

The contaminants are there because they were used as a part of the modification process.

Why would the government allow for such unhealthy practices to continue in the growing of crops?

The government does not want a healthy population that is strong enough to think for itself.

Modified foods are part of an agenda to keep people sick, but to keep them alive so that the drug industry can prosper to the benefit of the new world order elite.

In their plan, the public eating food would be like the public taking drugs.

Modified foods would be part of the weapon used to cloud public judgment and increase public dependency on the government to provide care.

The only cost would be freedom.

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