GMO genetic pollution alert: Genetically engineered wheat escapes experimental fields planted across 16 states

wheatNatural News – by Mike Adams

The genetic apocalypse we’ve been warning about for years may have already begun. The USDA just announced they found a significant amount of genetically engineered wheat growing in farm fields in Oregon. As the USDA announced yesterday, “…test results of plant samples from an Oregon farm indicate the presence of genetically engineered (GE) glyphosate-resistant wheat plants.”  

Why is this a big deal? Because GE wheat has never been approved for commercialization or sale. These strains of GE wheat escaped from GMO field experiments conducted across 16 states by Monsanto from 1998 to 2005. As the USDA states, “Further testing by USDA laboratories indicates the presence of the same GE glyphosate-resistant wheat variety that Monsanto was authorized to field test in 16 states from 1998 to 2005.”

And that means genetic pollution is already out of control. The GE wheat for which Monsanto claims patent ownership is now invading farms that never planted GE wheat.

All U.S. commercially-grown wheat now suspect

There are at least five serious ramifications from this:

#1) Monsanto can now sue all the farms where GM wheat has been found growing. According to U.S. federal courts, those farmers have “stolen” Monsanto’s intellectual property.

#2) The spread of GM wheat from experimental fields to wheat production fields is proof that GMOs cause genetic pollution — self-replicating pollution with the potential to devastate global food production.

#3) All wheat produced in the United States will now be heavily scrutinized — and possibly even rejected — by other nations that traditionally import U.S. wheat. This obviously has enormous economic implications for U.S. farmers and agriculture.

#4) It proves the USDA cannot control the GMO field experiments it approves. Open-field experiments are not “safe” nor “controlled.” They are experiments conducted in the open air, where genetic pollution is an inevitable result. The genetic pollution that began in 1998 can’t be put back into the box in 2013…

#5) U.S. consumers who eat wheat products are right now almost certainly ingesting some level of genetically modified wheat. This level may currently be very small — perhaps even less than 1% — but it is yet another source of GMO pollution in the food supply that could hugely impact Americans’ grocery shopping decisions.

U.S. wheat producers should be freaked out right now

Until today, Americans have been assured there are no GMOs in wheat products. They know that if you want to avoid GMOs, don’t buy corn. Wheat has always been seen as a “safe haven” from genetically modified food.

But now that myth has been shattered with the USDA’s announcement that they found GE wheat growing in farm fields in Oregon. If they found it in Oregon, it’s probably present in the 15 other states where GE wheat was openly planted in experimental fields, too.

Don’t worry about the safety of GE wheat, however. The USDA is absolutely sure it’s completely safe for you. And why? Because Monsanto told the FDA it was safe!

I’m not kidding. Here’s the USDA’s official explanation of this non-logic:

The detection of this wheat variety does not pose a food safety concern. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) completed a voluntary consultation on the safety of food and feed derived from this GE glyphosate-resistant wheat variety in 2004. For the consultation, the developer provided information to FDA to support the safety of this wheat variety. FDA completed the voluntary consultation with no further questions concerning the safety of grain and forage derived from this wheat, meaning that this variety is as safe as non-GE wheat currently on the market.

Oh, so the FDA “consulted” with Monsanto who told them their GE wheat was safe? I feel so much better already. Because Monsanto would never lie to the FDA about the safety of its GMOs.

USDA says it’s taking the findings seriously

“We are taking this situation very seriously and have launched a formal investigation,” said Michael Firko, Acting Deputy Administrator for APHIS’ Biotechnology Regulatory Services, a division of the USDA.

“Our first priority is to as quickly as possible determine the circumstances and extent of the situation and how it happened. We are collaborating with state, industry, and trading partners on this situation and are committed to providing timely information about our findings. USDA will put all necessary resources towards this investigation.”

Why is the USDA moving so quickly on this issue? Because they know the discovery of GE wheat growing in “the wild” puts the entire credibility of the U.S. wheat supply at risk. GMOs are banned in at least 27 countries around the world, and those countries will not likely allow genetically-contaminated wheat to be imported from the United States.

Depending on what happens next, we could be looking at a global embargo of U.S. wheat exports, meaning the U.S. wheat market would all but collapse. (This might be a good time to consider shorting some wheat futures if you’re into trading commodities…)

And while this would cause a short-term flooding of cheap wheat in the U.S. market (because nobody else is buying it), the drop in price would put so many wheat farmers out of business that wheat supply would be hard hit in 2014 and beyond, and that equals long-term price increases. GMOs being found in the wheat supply, in other words, means higher food prices for all Americans.

My repeated warning about a genetic apocalypse

It was just yesterday that I warned in a Natural News article about the potential for GMOs to cause a runaway genetic apocalypse. “A genetic apocalypse may devastate America’s bread basket,” I wrote, followed by:

Mark my words: there will come a day when Americans will wish they had burned all the GM corn fields to the ground. But by then it will be too late. The blight will be upon us, and with it comes the starvation, the suffering, the desperation and the riots. Hunger turns all family men into savages, just as greed turns all corporate men into demons.

There, I was talking about corn. But apparently this was too optimistic: wheat is now being impacted, too.

In that same article, I also stated, “the U.S. government is playing Russian roulette with America’s food future” — a statement that’s somewhat hilarious given that Russia won’t even play Russian roulette with its own crops. GMOs are a uniquely American form of corporate arrogance and genetic pollution. Nowhere in the world is agricultural imperialism so foolish yet so strongly backed by government gone bonkers.

By backing GMOs, the USDA is destroying the future of U.S. agriculture

The USDA announcement all but proves these warnings to be correct: GMOs really do escape experimental fields, and they really do infect and contaminate commercial crops in North America. Those crops then become tainted and are undesirable by 90% of consumers and most developed nations around the world. By allowing GMOs to continue to be planted anywhere in North America, the U.S. government is destroying the integrity of its agricultural industries for centuries to come.

Genetic pollution may never be able to be entirely removed from wheat, corn and other GM crops. And the worst part is that this genetic contamination may make these plants highly susceptible to threats that scientists have no way to anticipate or understand. While other nations around the world have exercised caution, the U.S. government conspired with Monsanto to abandon caution and risk the entire future of America’s agricultural industry on quack corporate “science” that has turned out to be a genetic pollution nightmare.

Sources for this story include:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/2013/05/ge_wheat_detection.shtml

http://farmfutures.com/story-usda-identifies-ge-glyphosate-resistant-…

http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/breaking-usda-finds-unnaproved-monsantos-g…

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040541_GMO_genetic_pollution_GE_wheat.html#ixzz2UnRLcCtl

33 thoughts on “GMO genetic pollution alert: Genetically engineered wheat escapes experimental fields planted across 16 states”

  1. “Escape experimental fields” escaped on purpose. They’re like toddlers:
    can’t take no for an answer.

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    1. How did they “escape”? Did they sprout legs and go walkabout? Being GMOs it wouldn’t shock me.

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      2. Walkabout? That’s British, is it not?

        Like take-out food here is take-away there?

        Just wonderin’.

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        1. Yeah #1 it’s English. Too much Monty Python, Dave Allen, Fawlty Towers, etc. in my youth. Sorry, (grin) it just kinda popped out.

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          1. Don’t forget Benny Hill and Are You Being Served.

            I have every episode of Monty Python in a dvd boxed set. Love British humor.

          2. Oh man I forget those two. I really liked Are you being served. I also remembered The two Ronnies and Ripping Yarns. Ripping Yarns was post Monty Python Michael Palin and Terry Jones. It was on PBS for a year I think. Wow…I’m surprised I have so many memories from those days. Several of those years are kinda…fuzzy if you know what I mean. Great times…just a bit fuzzy. DVD set of Python? Movies too?

          3. Just Monty Python and the Holy Grail (by far their best one).

            Unless you count “Brazil”. I have the European version of that one, with an alternate ending. Only two MP players in that one, though. (or is it three? It’s been a while since I’ve watched it).

          4. Yeah I liked the Holy Grail too. Meaning of Life and Life of Brian were good. Brazil? I think Palin and Cleese were in it and Terry Gilliam directed it. I’d say Terry Jones was in it too but I’m not sure. Sheeesh #1…I’m 53 and you’re bringing up my wayward youth. God bless you.

          6. Not Cleese? Man, I coulda sworn he had a small part. I gotta research that now. I’ll let you know how wrong I was.

          7. Nope. The only MP regular was Palin. Gilliam directed. Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins) was in it too, as well as Jim Broadbent.

          8. I couldn’t have been wronger if I tried. I think it was Jonathan Pryor I was thinking of? All I can say is you have a better memory than I do #1. Good job. Hat tip to you.

          9. Jonathan Pryce. Bob Hoskins, and Katherine Helmond (Soap), too.

            p.s. I cheated. Looked it up online. LOL

          10. Jeez #1…I should rewatch that movie. But I’d have to get a TV to do so…and I don’t want one any more. Memory must be fizzlin’on me. I guess Alzheimers claims another victim.

          11. I have a 40″ flat screen on my bedroom dresser. It’s NEVER displayed one single minute of tv ‘programming’. Haven’t watched tv in five + years. (actually, very little for the first two of those five, but ZERO in the last three +).

            Strictly for dvds.

          12. My fiancee and I got rid of ours three years ago. Being a sports guy it was hard the first year just listening to my beloved Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox…but as a kid I remember them almost never being on TV. So it was radio or nothing. After the first year it wasn’t bad. Withdrawals? In fact I’m listening to the Sox right now. That and doing a bit of research. Anywho, she’s kinda pushing to get one again for DVDs…I’m resisting for now…I’ll fight the good fight but it won’t become a Pyrric victory. They’re easier to get along with when they’re happy. In many ways I really enjoy the free time I now have because I’m not staring at a TV. Hey, do me a favor and read this and see if it adds up to you. Then I’ll tell you what my take is. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/31/306374/1st-supergovernmental-world-war-begins/

          13. My only forms of entertainment, other than FTT (and it can be VERY entertaining at times, believe me) are movies and music. I have over 400 movies on dvd, as well as a few (older) tv series. I don’t drink at all (except for my brother’s home brewed beer) so I never go to bars or clubs anymore.

            I’ll check that link out tomorrow, I’m way behind on the articles tonight.

  2. Mike Adams, associate of Alex Bullhorn Sellout Zionist Jones, prides himself on his investigative journalism, but too often, as in this story, there’s a lot of fear mongering and doom and gloom without alternatives or solutions, or even data to back up his claims.

    What are the 16 states where GM wheat was grown and escaped, and what are the locations of the experiment farms or contracted fields where GM wheat was planted? I am not saying it didn’t happen, but there is no further explanation or direct links in the article. Don’t tell me to do the research myself; Adams apparently already did it but is choosing not to inform us of those facts.

    We already know that the march of the Agenda 21 program includes taking out national U.S. farmers and replacement with imported food of questionable origin and even worse pesticide treatment, or replacement on U.S. farmland with Mexican peasant farmers after U.S. farmers are bankrupted and forced out of business.

    Mike Adam’s brand of yellow journalism is no help whatsoever, and I think its mongering intent is to demoralize and agitate into destabilizing chaos. AFAIC, his articles go on the dungheap.

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      1. So in which states has GM wheat spread? Neither Bullhorn’s friend and colleague or Russia is saying. Perhaps you could provide a link to this “fact” of all the 16 states where wheat crops have been contaminated.

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        1. Don’t try to defend these mother f#@kers on this site in any way. The last field was found right here in Oregon and they are withholding exactly where. The sons of bitches are not going to tell us.
          Monsanto is poisoning us and that is a fact.
          Again, why would you even attempt to defend them in any way?

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          1. Henry,
            They are sure trying. Monsanto has a very long list they hope to turn loose including pines, amaranth, plums, persimmons, etc etc. Because of acidification of hthe soil, The B**tds!

          2. Lest we forget, Monsanto also took out patents in 2009 specifically for aluminum- resistant crops.

            Wouldn’t have anything to do with the aluminum in the chemtrails, would it?

            p.s.If I remember correctly, I believe the chemtrails are turning the soil more alkaline, not acidic.

            Could be wrong though. Occasionally I am. TMI to keep it ALL in my head.

            (This is where it should have been, good thing I always copy them before I hit ‘post comment’. Damn security question, you know. LOL)

            (sorry for the double post)

    3. Henry, “defend” is your word, not mine. I’m not defending Monsanto – that company, its executives, board of directors, stockholders, scientists, employees, and all the bottom-feeding attorneys that work for it directly or by contract are the scourge of the earth. Yes, Monsanto, the other biotech companies, our government, and our local water treatment agencies are poisoning us every day. The data on that piles higher every day.

      What I am asking for is facts. You discussed one today, that GMO wheat was found in Oregon. This is already causing a panic throughout the blogosphere. And there’s already a wacko comment farther down advocating burning GMO fields. Since we don’t know which fields, or even in which states these possible GMO fields are, is this advocating destruction of the breadbasket’s entire wheat belt? Heaven help us. See how fast this spins out of control?

      The way Adams’s article is worded, GMO wheat has escaped across 15 other states. I’m simply asking. Which other states is a fair question, and a question is just that, not defense of anything or anybody. If GMO has escaped across 15 states, Adams or someone should be able to cite the source naming those states, since that is what HE stated in his article.

      There are two other possibilities here that no one is addressing, and one is the possibility of a market ploy to crash the price of wheat reserves and/or crash the wheat futures of this summer’s crop on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, helping to put U.S. wheat farmers into bankrupcy, and the other is a huge diversion and chaos. I don’t think like the criminals that plot these machinations, so what it could be, I don’t know. But these are possibilities.

      And again, I am not and would not defend at any time defend Monsanto and the like. You review every comment I make. You know I am ALWAYS on The People’s side. I’m only supporting critical thinking and discernment, and that apparently is roiling the waters.

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      1. Here we analyze information. If there was information you were seeking, you should have put the question out there openly, to all, instead of just attacking the article.
        Don’t worry about the wheat market crashing. If there is any poison in it, we the taxpayers will be forced to buy it and feed it to the poor, don’t you think?

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  3. http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/05/30/monsanto-panics-as-oregon-gm-wheat-scandal-spreads-worldwide/#.Uae-0r9U38s

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187103955/gmo-wheat-found-in-oregon-field-howd-it-get-there

    Now these articles state that Monsanto field tested GMO wheat in 16 states between 1998-2005. We all know that pollen spreads via the wind. That is how it happened in Oregon. It is UNKNOWN if the GMO wheat spread in all 16 states, that is why the FDA is investigating whether it spread in the other 15 states as well. I am almost positive that it has cause although GMO is not natural, nature will find a way. It will bite them in the behind.

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    1. Gee Paul, I would NEVER advocate doing harm to growing crops. That could be interpreted as encouraging illegal activity. However, IF someone was bold and reckless enough to do such a terrible deed, They would have to identify the offending field. Double and triple check to make sure they’re right. Take a few sightseeing walks in the area to look for…I dunno…cameras, security personel, noting any buildings or abutting fields that shouldn’t be harmed. And the hiking tour should also take note of several potential ways in AND out. And then one moonless night perhaps an evening stroll might find them next to the offending field with combustable material at hand. And then working quickly but efficiently…POOF!!! And then, leaving nothing, hopefully not even footprints behind, they vanish. And if they’re really paranoid and worried about tracking dogs? Cayanne pepper liberally sprinkled on the trail does wonders for a bloodhounds sinuses. But like I said, I would NEVER advocate such actions.

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  5. Stop buying bread. When business slows down because no one wants to eat the stuff they may clean up their act. I can’t remember the last time I had bread anyway. I won’t miss it. I haven’t had corn or tomatoes in years either.
    Leave it on the shelf and ask the store manager when he’s going to start selling food that isn’t poisonous.
    You want to genetically modify it? You eat it.

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