toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
But then it's sterile, isn't it?Folks, genetic modification doesn't involve injecting anything, it merely means selecting the genes that give corn better taste, brighter color, greater disease resistance, higher production. In other words, it is no different than the natural selection occurring in nature, simply guided by our particular needs. "Corn" has been getting modified to our likes, needs and ends for thousands of years since the earliest days of the Americas. If you want truly virgin, unchanged corn, go eat grass seed, because corn is nothing but a variant of grass. Corn belongs to the family Poaceae, genus Zea, just like grass.
Yes & no........yes corn is from the grass family just as most grains.
In modern terms GMO does involve a science experiment in the lab to create corn that is resistant to RoundUp & other herbicides. Also what is called terminator seeds......which means you can't save seed from one year to the next because once the plant is harvested those seeds will not germinate.
Again, the only difference between regular corn and one made resistant to herbicide or born with non-viable seeds is gene modification. Gene modification is the same process occurring in nature through natural selection, the only difference here is that rather than wait for nature to stumble upon a positive new variety by accident, a lab scientist now has the ability to research the genes to find which ones give greater resistance or produce a non-viable seed to protect a varietal from being stolen and produced elsewhere, and making the gene modification consciously.
The grain seed is inert. So yes, you cannot grow new stock from the seed, you must buy active seed from an authorized supplier.