Some heartening news from Science 2.0. A bio tech company out of San Diego has been able to alter the genetics of canola DNA without using transgenetics. Hank Campbell correctly points out that GMO is actually a legal and a vague scientific one. European and American companies are experimenting with a new kind of genetic modification known as Mutagenesis. Citing David Wagner at KPBS, Campbell points out:

“Cibus is a San Diego-based biotech company that alters canola DNA to produce beneficial traits, but not through transgenics. They send a molecular messenger into the plant’s DNA, conscripting the canola’s own DNA-fixing enzymes into changing a gene. That messenger dissolves after its job is done, leaving no foreign genetic material in the finished crop.”

So it has been genetically modified but is not a GMO. It leads to a philosophical question: If genes are edited in food and Whole Foods can’t find a way to market against it, will Benbrook, Seralini, Mercola and Hari, the Four Horsemen of the Alternative, still claim they cause cancer in rats?

Below is a video interview with Professor Martina Newell McGloughlin of the University of California at Davis. Professor McGloughlin explains the meticulous safety testing completed on all biotechnological foods. As it turns out and as she will explain, GMO foods are the most tested products in the history of agriculture. Misinformation and lies spread by sources, such as Natural News, and environmentalist groups, such as Greenpeace, is tantamount not just an attack on science and our food supply but an assault on human life itself.