GMO Wheat

No GM wheat for now All the recent commotion over GM crops can be a bit confusing. For some they are a miracle others ""frankenfoods."" Call them what you will but realize GM foods are not new, in fact corn, canola, cotton and soy beans have been genetically modified for years. Sixty percent of the processed foods in our supermarkets now contain GMO ingredients, even many of the soft drinks. Yet despite acceptance in the US it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to introduce new biotech crops. Monsanto recently announced that they have tabled their efforts to introduce new GM wheat, because of opposition, from an unanticipated source: US and Canadian farmers. Unlike consumers wheat farmers apparently are not as concerned about the safety of the GM products but rather the market for them, so until consumers in Europe and Japan will accept GM foods, wheat farmers do not want to risk growing it. I'm Susan Allen with today's Food Forethought.