Arctic Apple

Arctic Apple

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
I received this e-mail from a listener after doing a story on the genetically modified Arctic Apple. There is only one thing standing in the way of the GMO Arctic Apple. And it’s the tax-subsidized, multibillion dollar organic industry.

I grew up on an organic grain farm in Saskatchewan, and worked for five years as a USDA-contract organic inspector. But I left the organic movement when I realized it was all just a bureaucratic scam designed to propel a political agenda. Nowhere is this political agenda better revealed than in the movement to label existing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and delay the introduction of new GMOs, which of course is all just a ploy to have this 30-year old field of science banned.

 

The worst part in all this is the fact that the good, intelligent people who come up with innovative products like the Arctic Apple are too afraid to say anything about the organic industry’s baseless opposition to their products. They’ve been kowtowed into fighting a losing battle in which identifying organic activists by name is considered mean-spirited and taboo.

 

This is why the Arctic Apple, sadly, will never make it to market. It might gain approval from regulators, but it will never be accepted in the market place thanks to the efforts of anti-GMO organic activists, activists we are all forced to subsidize.

 

Mischa Popoff, B.A. (Hons.) U. of S.

Former USDA contract organic inspector

Author of Is it Organic? The inside story of the organic industry

 

 

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