by Taetske | 4:33 pm
(Last Updated On: May 5, 2023)

 

Have you heard about the GMO potato?

 

Different types of potatoes

Different types of potatoes image Hands of my tags Michael Gaida

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I received an email from “GMOs Revealed” and read an amazing story

Before telling you the story though, I would like to tell you a bit about GMOs in general. When one investigates the list of foods that have been genetically modified, you will find that this list is already rather long.

The reason for the development of GMO foods is varied. They claim that using GMO seeds, one needs fewer herbicides/pesticides because the developed seed is to be tolerant of a specific herbicide formula.

All of this seems very positive until you realize that the continued use of a pesticide on a farm field will kill off all biological life in the soil. This bacterial life is necessary for the decomposition of nutrients to make them bioavailable to the plants. I argue that it would be much better to not need those herbicides and pesticides.

 

Spraying the field with pesticides

Spraying the field with pesticides image Th G

 

What foods are GMO?

This list of GMO foods was last updated on the 15th of August 2016 and as we have recently arrived in 2020, there might be more already. As I stated before, this list is already rather long I think. It includes; Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, Canola, Alfalfa, Sugar Beets, Papaya (Hawaiian), and Squash. The newcomers are Arctic Apples, Innate Potato, and Aqua bounty Salmon.

When you cut a non-GMO apple, it will soon turn brown and does not look so appetizing anymore. The new Arctic Apple has had one of its enzymes turned off and will not turn brown anymore when it is cut, bruised, or you take a bite of it.

It seems these apples are cheaper to produce than regular packaged apples. Normal apples need to be sprayed with Vitamin C or ascorbic acid. Adding ascorbic acid or a little vinegar when canning, is a trick our ancestors knew about, to reduce the browning of an apple.

As very few independent studies (not supported by the target industry) have been done to show that all this manipulation is harmless, only time will tell if eating GMO foods are good for you. Personally I am not happy with this tempering with nature and as time passes, I get more wary of human inventions.

 

Chinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon image PublicDomainimages

 

A very special fish

Previously, scientists had genetically modified fish for scientific research. The first genetically changed animal to be commercialized was the GloFish (2003) and the first genetically modified animal to be approved for food use was the salmon produced by the AquaBounty biotech company (2015).

Recently, on March 8 of 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted an import restriction and allowed AquaBounty to raise this new verity of genetically engineered salmon in America.

Why not, America already allows a lot of GMO food to be sold to its population? Why not add a little GMO fish to complete the menu? Sounds perfect, don’t you think?

This company has facilities in Canada and Panama and now it has invaded the American market. This is the first time a GMO animal has been allowed to be produced in the US. This fish is a combination of Chinook salmon and Ocean Pout. Now you might ask, what is an ocean pout? Well, I too had to look up what an ocean pout is.

Wikipedia tells us it is an eel that has antifreeze like proteins in its blood, so it can survive the near-freezing waters. I find that quite amazing. Creation is something outstanding, but what I find not outstanding at all is that men play as if they are the Creator.

Anyhow genes from the Ocean Pout are combined with a growth hormone gene from the Chinook salmon creating a fast-growing GMO salmon. There have been concerns about what would happen if the genetically changed fish would escape.

The company has stated all fish that will be sold will be sterile females. Did anyone see the first Jurassic Park Movie? Where there is a vacuum, nature will find its way. Ok, let us hope for the best.

There are restaurants and grocery store chains that will not sell this new fish. There seem to be no studies that tell us there is no risk for our health. Is that true? I have found information linked here, which is worth a glance or 2. By now one should have realized whenever there is money in the deal, money comes first and our health stands, if, at the end of the list.

 

I started this post with the question if you had heard about the GMO potato?

Here’s the story. In 2014, they introduced GMO potatoes to the market. Dr. Caius Rommens, a genetic scientist, used RNA technology to create a new type of potato. This potato would not get brown and neither would it show bruises and therefor would be popular with buyers.

They sold these new potatoes under the name of “Innate” and “White Russet”. The company J.R. Simplot sold these GMO potatoes and slowly but surely this new product appeared in supermarkets lying nicely next to normal potatoes.

 

Do not miss this book

Then it happened. In 2018, Dr. Rommens stated he was not happy anymore with his creation, warning everybody of risks. He wrote a book called “Pandora’s Potatoes, the worst GMOs”.

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It seems the statistics were misleading, these potatoes did not have the tremendous benefits claimed and neither the excellent quality. I would imagine that if you bought a potato which looks good but actually it is not, you would refrain from buying this product in the future, right?

Then to know that these GMO potatoes have at least 2 toxins that do not exist in normal potatoes, it really makes you wonder. Where is the benefit of eating this stuff?

Dr. Rommens used to work for Monsanto. He now speaks up and I think we should all listen to him.

The following YouTube video talks about GMOs, 2 professors share their knowledge.

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Conclusion

I just wonder, and I have said this before, why humans always think they can better nature. It actually is a disrespect we have for creation, which functions beautifully if we live in harmony with it and only take what we need.

These Frankenstein food inventions men make will be our downfall, together with the multiple other stupid things we are able to do and create. This will soon make life on our planet impossible. Then it will be useless to cry about spilled milk.

 

Are genetically modified foods really safe?

If you have asked yourself this question, you should read this book. European restaurants are putting footnotes on their menu. Often guests are asking if the food is GMO free.

Gregor Mendel was not some obscure scientist, but a 19th century Augustinian monk. He would spend many hours in the garden testing and cultivating over 28.000 pea plants. He would selectively determine the specific characteristics of the peas he was producing.

We have been playing with the genetic makeup of our food for millennia, but now it has gotten out of hand. We do not know if this food will make us sick in the future.

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Before you leave, you might like to visit Recommendations. It is a special page I have made for you. It holds a collection you might find interesting.

 

Source: GMOs revealed, 30 December 2019

Photo Source: Pixabay

 

You might be interested to read about Monsanto and their product Roundup. Sadly, this harmful product is still being sold worldwide. I hope it will soon come to a sales ban. With spraying Roundup on crops, we are poisoning ourselves.

The first court cases against Monsanto/Bayer have been favorable to the claimants, and thousands of recent cases are waiting to be heard.

Important Information on Monsanto and Roundup®.

Comments

Nate MC

I knew about Aqua-bounty Salmon, but Innate potato is a new one to be. I’m not a fan of GMO foods and think many more studies need to be conducted to determine whether or not eating GMO food is harmful or not. I predict in 10 years’ time finding truly non-GMO food products will be nearly impossible.

Jan 14.2020 | 09:08 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Nate,

    That is not a pretty picture you are painting but perhaps you are right and soon we only get GMO food products to eat. I mean that is rather stupid what we are doing to ourselves. Nature provides so many good things. A big part has not even be discovered yet. There we come and have to imitate nature and I do not think we do it better.

    Thank you for your comment. I hope you downloaded your free PDF? Tulip widget.

    Regards, Taetske

    Jan 15.2020 | 04:03 pm

Mugalu Mansoor

I, first of all, thank you for the hard work you put in to bring this website together. In my opinion, GMOs are a great idea because of some reasons. First of all, some crops used to take too much time before reaching the harvesting stage.

As an example, In my country bananas used to grow for one year but the genetically modified banana grows for six months. Thanks

Jan 14.2020 | 09:09 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Mugalu,

    Thank you for your comment. I hope you have downloaded your free PDF? Tulip widget.

    I do understand your argument that if crops grow faster you can get your money sooner. You might even be able to have 2 crops a year. I live in the south of Spain and am not happy with the bananas we buy here. These bananas are harvested green to then go on their voyage. I buy them in the supermarket and they taste green even when they have ripened.

    That is not the biggest concern, I am more worried that the herbicides used are killing all those insects, bees included. I live on an organic farm and am very happy to see an unspoiled nature around me.

    Did you have time to look at the YouTube video? It is quite an eye-opener. I really think we should stop meddling with nature.

    Regards, Taetske

    Jan 15.2020 | 03:40 pm

Danijel

Hello Taetske, I must say that this article is very helpful and informative. Honestly, I did not know about GMO potato so far but I am glad now I discovered the truth about it. I enjoy reading your articles because I always learn something new. This is definitely not a good thing, may God protect us all.

Jan 14.2020 | 09:09 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Danijel,

    Thank you for your comment. Nice to see you again.

    It is also nice to hear you find my articles interesting. There are the whole time new things I want to write about, for sure the world is full of interesting news.

    Personally I find this GMO disturbing to say the least. Humans have to invent crazy things which most likely will harm our health, time will tell.

    Regards, Taetske

    Jan 15.2020 | 03:46 pm

Rhain

It is quite unfortunate how we think we can better nature. whats more concerning is that we often do so without fear of the repercussions. As you mentioned, I agree that it is pure disrespect for the creation which functions and serves us just fine.

These tamperings are wrong and I’m hopeful that it does not turn around to haunt us.

Thank you for sharing your concerns  

Jan 14.2020 | 09:24 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Rhain,

    Actually our inventions are already showing consequences. Take as an example men-made food. The health of the population is in decline because even if science has advanced the way we eat is wrong. We have turned away from nature and the results are obvious.

    Thank you for your visit and for your comment. I hope you have downloaded your free PDF? Tulip widget.

    Regards, Taetske

    Jan 15.2020 | 03:14 pm

sharen

Thank you for this informative report, although very disturbing.  Do chemical companies just feel it is necessary to modify everything just because they have chemicals, labs and apparently people who enjoy doing this kind of work?  They are not adding to the quality of our lives only to the thickness of their wallets. 

You have made me aware of things here that I was only suspicious of before.  I appreciate the research you have put into this and I look forward to checking back to read your future posts.  I checked out the post you have on plastics and have been working to cut back on all things plastic.  Taking my own canvas bags to grocery stores is only one of the many ways I have begun to seek change.

Thank you for your insights.

Sharen

Jan 14.2020 | 10:40 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Sharon,

    Thank you for visiting my website and for leaving a comment. I hope you downloaded your free PDF? Tulip widget.

    Writing for my 2 websites for 3 years has made me discover a lot of things I was not aware of. I say that my world view has changed considerably over time.

    Nice, you also read the one on plastics. Here at my home, we are also doing our best to reduce where we can.

    On my other site, my latest post is on toilet paper and the fast areas of forest that disappear because of this industry. Wednesday is always my weekly shopping and I was happy to find recycled toilet paper in the supermarket.

    You might like to take a look at bUnited, a worldwide movement of consumers. On the sidebar under my photo, you will see Save the Planet, there it is explained.

    Regards, Taetske 

    Jan 15.2020 | 03:03 pm

Linda Frankson

Dear Taetske, As I read your work, I am drawn to many posts that I have also written on Roundup. The most recent is my own experience with this Herbicide.

I am totally with you on this subject. But You also state what we are doing to Mother Nature.
“We” is, what I do not agree with.

There are many good people out there that are trying their darndest to work with Mother Nature and feel we are losing the battle.
Most people are in denial because they haven’t been informed correctly and don’t get me wrong; you are doing a great job of telling the general public.

Like you, we are fighting to inform the public. The culprits here are a few Gurus that are lining their pockets and keeping the general public blindfolded, and they can do that with the money they already have. Getting us to think they are doing good works.

It is a sad state we are in; I agree with you wholeheartedly that we as a general public are being hogwashed and can’t see the whole picture because there are so many debates on the subject. And it is hard to see how is right and how it is wrong.

The awaking call is out there, and we need to pay attention.

Jan 20.2020 | 06:55 pm

    Taetske

    Good afternoon dear Linda,

    I really appreciate you stopping by again and reading a new post.

    I know there are many good people out there who care for Mother Nature. I have published a post on planting trees, something that is a big necessity on our earth.

    I know there are Gurus who talk a lot, brainwash people and put the money in their pockets. This has happened in the past and will happen in the future, human greed is difficult to eradicate. We are being fed erroneous information and manipulated food.

    You are right to be informed about how things really make us strong.

    I hope to see you again.

    Regards, Taetske

    Jan 21.2020 | 03:15 pm

Andy

I have opposed GMO foods since their first waves of publicity I think sometime in the 1990s. Things were a little easier in Europe where people tend to be more skeptical of such things and readier to conserve. I remember there was quite a powerful anti-GMO movement in Europe and I think that did help stem the tide.

I also remember the battle over labeling and I think it was equally important to require food producers to label foods that contain GMOs. I even canceled my subscription to the Economist magazine of many years standing as I really felt their pro-GMO stance was irrational and reckless. In summary, I am very much opposed to GMP foods.

Best regards, Andy

Apr 20.2021 | 12:51 am

    Taetske

    Good afternoon Andy,

    Thank you for stopping by and for your comment. I hope you downloaded your free PDF? Tulip widget.

    I remember my parents also used to read the Economist magazine, but that was long before one started talking about GMO. I firmly believe that this food is responsible for the general poor health of the population.

    Especially in the U.S.A, where people eat a lot of fast food. This compromises your immune system and then, when there is a virus around you are powerless. It is too sad to see young people who have to carry the burden of all kinds of ailments when actually changing the way you eat it could easily be avoided.

    I am convinced we are going in the wrong direction and that on many levels.

    Regards, Taetske

    Apr 20.2021 | 03:40 pm

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