USDA Approves First GMO Apple For Planting
Part of 'speedy' GMO approval process
Adding another genetically modified food to the growing list of biotech creations, the USDA has now approved the first GMO apple for commercial planting inside the United States. Slated for your dinner table, the new GMO apple is reportedly ‘resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised.’
Coming just months after the USDA approved the first genetically modified potato, the news reminds us of the USDA’s declaration to give Monsanto and other biotech organizations ‘speedy approval’ when it comes to approving genetically modified foods. In other words, less testing and more rubber stamping.
According to the New York Times, the USDA ‘considered the issues’ over the new GMO apple (including the intense opposition), writing:
“The Department of Agriculture, which approved the apples for commercial planting, said on Friday that it had considered these issues. However, it said that under the law, approval is based on whether a genetically modified crop poses a threat to other plants. The department determined that the apples posed no such risk…. The so-called Arctic apples — which will be available in the Granny Smith and Golden Delicious varieties — are genetically engineered in a way to suppress the production of an enzyme that causes browning when cells in the apple are injured, from slicing, for example.”
The good news? You may actually be able to identify these GMO apples by their sale name ‘Arctic’ — or perhaps an FDA-approved label that they are considered ‘non-browning.’ An indicator that we have not yet seen with genetically modified foods — and for good reason. After all, no one would actually purchase GMO foods (including the new GMO apple) if they carried an appropriate label.
Why do you think over 96% of Monsanto shareholders are against GMO labeling?
This news comes as both a surprise and an expected announcement. As the USDA continues to roll through GMO products into the dining rooms of consumers nationwide, it’s less and less of a shock as every staple food becomes modified by mega biotech — and the time is now to demand real testing and action. Or at least answers as to why the US State Department is paying for Monsanto’s marketing materials like DVDs and threatening other countries who reject their GMO crops.
Would you eat a GMO apple?
 | Natural Society staff contribution |
I will eat these apples and enjoy every bite! There is absolutely no scientific proof that GMO’s are harmful in anyway. GMO’s help with food insecurity because they allow us to produce more food with less land and water. We want to feed the world but we are too scared to use science to help us do so. Most of the problem with food insecurity is that we waste a lot of perfectly good food, this apple helps with this problem because people wont throw it away just because it is a little brown. Monsanto is a company that isn’t afraid to use science to help us with food insecurity and diminishing resources.
Typical Big-GMO “spokesman”
Yup this is crap
Do people not already know that every apple in the supermarket is a GMO? All the meat, veggies, etc are GMO’s. Ask yourself this when purchasing your food, “Does it exist in the wild?”, if yes, “Does it exist in this form?” Apples exist in the wild, but not as big, sweet, juicy fruit in different colors. They are small, and tart/ sour. Genetic modification is why we enjoy the foods we enjoy today. Everything on your dinner table is a GMO, I assure you…
Actually no meat is genetically modified and most veggies are not. The main GMOs are corn, soybeans and wheat. I agree that GMOs are one of the reasons we enjoy the food we do however the reasons for our food being better quality is from many different reasons including better irrigation systems, herbicides, pesticides, storing, fertilizer, etc. Not everything on our dinner table is a GMO but they aren’t something that we should be scared of. Science is a good thing!
Science can be used for good or evil.
inform yourself, there are only two fruit that are gmo , papaya and now the arctic apple, dont mix up selective breeding to produce different varieties of fruits and vegetables, they are totally different things. here is a great site with lots of info on what is gmo , it also has a hady pdf showing what is gmo, since corn is 85% gmo and it is available in so many items high fructose corn syrup etc,- it is very likely that people consume gmos without being aware.
http://www.cban.ca/FAQs oops here is the website
You know, Google University is tuition free. Inform yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNtCV67biBA
Standard Big-GMO LIE attempting to convolute frankenfood with natural hybrids.
Why do they continue to create these GMOs when there is less and less of a market for them outside the US? The rest of the world is smartening up and banning all this crap but the boys in biotech keep cranking these things out.
Leave our food alone and find something useful to do….like a cure for cancer (caused by eating all this GMO and glyphosate poison)
Unfortunately: “Anything for a blessed Buck” Sue.
You have to be kidding me, they spent how much to develop an apple that doesn’t brown when you can simply squirt lemon juice on apples to do the same thing which would add a little more vit C. I hope they loose billions on this one- I thought GMO products are suppose to at least serve some sort of purpose like increasing farmer yields to fight famine- this is senseless!
There is not one gmo that produce more
those mother efers……. i’m so sick and tired of those A holes!!!!! No actually i will probably not eat any apples since all will become contaminated in time no more real apples!!!!!! Pieces of Sh_t!!!! I can’t even stand to watch this stuff role out, another one bites the dust. Another food that i won’t be able to eat w/ a clear conscience..
I really am to the point of following European practices of physically destroying GMO crops. The gov is not going to do anything.
Last year, Putin banned apples from Poland because he said that the amounts of Pesticide were too high. So in Poland, there was a big push for people to eat Polish apples. Cafes were even giving them away for free so people sat eating these unwashed apples 1) because they were free and 2) to protest against Putin. The average person does not even know that non organic apples have the highest pesticide of any fruit, so I doubt they’ll check to see if they are GMO.
Correct. Putin banned GMO completely after Russian laboratories fed rats with imported GMO wheat and found tumours and other abnormalities forming.
It’s worth noting too that Gaddafi banned GMO imports, but as soon as he was overthrown, Monsanto was in there as fast as diarrhoea on a play slide. Funnily enough, Assad banned GMO too, so expect the biotech industry to be there lobbying the US government to maintain hostilities against Syria.
I and my family won’t eat it.
Already been on the market.
I will never eat one
Doesn’t matter whether you eat one. One many people won’t know they are GMO. They will buy and eat…Also, the transfer of genes to other trees will ensure that this gmo contamination crosses to all apples.
Well. I will never eat these, and gives me more and more reasons to never buy except organic.
Organic is the best way to avoid GMOs — especially since we do not yet know which of the new GMO creations will even be labeled!
People in the know, recognize that there isn’t organic anymore. You can’t protect cross pollination, toxicity from chemtrails, etc. We need to revolt against gmos.
I have my own apple trees, I have several in my back yard since the 1950’s. It’s not difficult to keep my Golden Delicious trees since they don’t need cross pollination to set fruit. The apples fall of when ripe, the neighbors never buy apples, and the rotted ones are for the birds. I keep the rest of the apples in the basement.
Natural cross-pollination is not the same as GMO, which is conducted by the combination of particular genotypes that could never happen in nature, such as between an apple and a fish.
me too!
Many more products every day labeled “NON GMO” appearing in stores… Monsanto et al lobbying to permit GMO food to be labeled “Organic”…
About time the government started doing their jobs, instead of giving in to baseless complaints from people trying to stop progress.
Progress?Really-then you eat it! Don’t make choices for me
Did I say they should get rid of organic? No, it keeps people like you happy by being able to waste money on the same food, and gives you security against your irrational childish fears.
Childish cause we don’t believe what you believe?–Show me a honest government and maybe we can talk…
Your scared of food, corporations, governments, vaccines, doctors.must be tough to go through life scared of everything. Feel very sorry for you it must be miserable.
How do you know what I”m afraid of??? Are you psychic?-By the way ,I haven”t been sick in 50 years….so go eat your frakenfood and make sure you feed it to your children-I heard that they are coming out with him fruit that will make you glow different colors before you die!
Good for you maybe you need an organic cookie. Don’t remember the last time I was sick, been years. Does calling gmos help you justify wasting money on your organic food? Or does it help justify the fact that you don’t believe in God? I for one do and realize that we will all die one day no matter what color the food may turn us in the mean time, but not until He says it is time. Isn’t it sad not to have any meaning in your life? I pity you.
Well guess God’s apples aren’t good enough for Monsanto …..
Almost everything we eat has been manipulated by man. Very little looks as it did in the beginning.
GMO Roberts is an AstroTurf a hole. A corporate social media propagandist. Pay no mind. If you are unaware of term look up Ted talk on subject. Real eye opener.
I guess insults are good if you can’t add anything meaningful.
There are many – although he is a particularly pathetic example.
I dont believe in god?You can have conversation by yourself….maybe GMO affected your brain
Maybe, but organics defineately affected yours.
defineately?—GMO Robert It has affected your spelling too—get off of FRAKENFOOD!
Don’t have anything real to add so you can only criticize my spelling? So sad loser.
Loser?You cant spell but i’m a loser–hmmm–Didnt they hug you when you was a kid?
You can’t even stay on topic. We are talking gmos. Try and stay focused. Of course when your argument is that weak I would try to shift the focus as well.
You do it all the time!—GMO is a poison so you can eat and the rest of us won’t–end of discussion
Sorry, billions of us will and if you don’t like it then buy your over priced organic.
GMO Roberts is an idiot, don’t waste your time on him, or her, or whatever, LOL!!!
I thought at first that he was being paid to spread misinformation.But he can’t spell!!–lol
GMO Roberts, one trick jackass lives at trolling for GMO. Get a real job.
Have one, helping to feed the world! Thanks for your concern though.
Feed the world –you mean poison the world and take control of our food supply– grow up!!
Sorry, but after twenty years if you were correct the population wouldn’t be increasing.
The gov is planning to replace all nature with synthetic nature. Genetic engineering and geoengineering are worki8ng together to eliminate all nature order. Research Transhumanism…you are already transitioning to part machine and artificial intelligence thanks to che trails, foods, vaccines, etc. This is part of the transition. Read about Georgia guidestones, Agenda 21, etc. .
You really need to get in touch with reality.
Reality?oooo your reality…
So true
Progress? LOL! What progress? Why on earth do people need an apple that doesn’t brown? They don’t. It’s not natural and it’s not needed. If you don’t want it to brown then eat it right away. If you absolutely *must* cut it up and store it then spritz it with a bit of lemon juice. Problem solved.
I smell a Monsanto “spokesman”
Wrong again, only a spokesman for the truth. I would be more than happy to work for Monsanto and do this for money, can you get me the contact number?
Subverting millions of years of natural evolution by combining incompatible genotypes is not progress.