What happens when a ruthless corporation is found to have potentially released harmful products into the food system? Well, if that company is Monsanto and we’re talking about the U.S. food supply, they are usually given the green light. But in the case of unapproved GM wheat recently found in Oregon, they point fingers at sabotaging activists.
Recently, an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat was discovered in an Oregon field. The Roundup Ready strain was nixed in 2005 when global resistance to Monsanto forced the company to stop working on it. It was never approved for use, let along growing and exporting. As a result of the discovery, Japan ceased all imports of wheat from the region and other countries said they would be subjecting their U.S. wheat imports to rigorous testing.
The USDA is investigating the rogue wheat, because unlike Monsanto’s GM corn and soy which proliferate the U.S. market, the agency didn’t give this crop the okay.
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