{"id":73035,"date":"2019-10-15T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=73035"},"modified":"2019-10-15T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:33:04","slug":"let-them-eat-gm-cottonseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/let-them-eat-gm-cottonseed\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat GM Cottonseed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>Potentially dangerous new GMO gains US FDA approval to be fed to humans and animals \u2013 poor and hungry targeted. Report: Claire Robinson<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulators have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/2019\/10\/12\/530100\/genetically-modified-cotton-set-to-be-used-for-human-consumption\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a>&nbsp;a new type of GM cotton, the seed of which is to be used for human and animal consumption. The cotton, developed by researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, is being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/2019\/10\/12\/530100\/genetically-modified-cotton-set-to-be-used-for-human-consumption\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">touted<\/a>&nbsp;as a protein-rich way to feed the poor and hungry. However, the many risks of this GM food are being ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The GM cotton is engineered to have lower than normal levels of a substance called gossypol in the seed, but normal levels in other parts of the plant.&nbsp; Gossypol is useful to the plant for resisting pests and diseases, but it is toxic for humans and animals (though less so to mature ruminants such as cows) to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong>RNAi effects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The new GM cotton was produced using a GM approach called RNAi, which is short for RNA interference. RNAi essentially results in the silencing of expression of a desired gene or genes. This particular application of RNAi-mediated gene silencing was intended to reduce production of gossypol in the seeds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulators have&nbsp;approved&nbsp;a new type of GM cotton, the seed of which is to be used for human and animal consumption. The cotton, developed by researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, is being&nbsp;touted&nbsp;as a protein-rich way to feed the poor and hungry. However, the many risks of this GM food are being ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":72651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Let Them Eat GM Cottonseed! - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/let-them-eat-gm-cottonseed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let Them Eat GM Cottonseed! - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulators have&nbsp;approved&nbsp;a new type of GM cotton, the seed of which is to be used for human and animal consumption. 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