He said that there was no problem with the gene, it was whatever Monsanto was inserting into the gene that caused the problem.
Monsanto inserts genes...the gene is what codes for the phenotype. A phenotype is simply the physical characteristic, like hair colour, size, shape, disease resistance. Genes are made of amino acids...the smallest insertion possible would be a single base pair. Three base pairs make one amino acid. What Monsanto inserts is no different at the base level of genetics than any of your own genes. It's just a different combination of base pairs. The bananas you eat today have different combinations of base pairs than the bananas you grew up eating. Even if they're organic.
The argument that these changes are leading to more cancer and other environmental diseases is lacking evidence, and lacking plausible explanations for how it could produce such changes.
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Thank you, Ton..........that is the message that I was trying to get across to Cannuck.
The indirect health concerns is the antibiotics, not the hormones...agricultural use of antibiotics is a huge source of antibiotic resistance.