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Rapeseed, also sometimes known as Canola (a cultivar - cultivated variety / trademarked) was quite common when we were in France. There is Monsanto (GM Biotech firm) strain of the stuff too, just like with Corn and Soy Crops. Apparently, most the GM stuff we eat ends up as processed foods -possibly about 70% of the processed food we eat here in the USA is genetically modified… All the more reason to stay away from processed crap and eat healthy, local grown food. And even then, who knows with the disproportionately large amount of GM research being done here in Hawaii. The biotech firms like the idea of keeping their test crops away from the mainland - I wonder why….

It would be nice if foods aof all kinds were required to have labeling indicating the GM content - however legistlation is slow on this topic. Though in europe people are very steadast against the stuff - I was quite surprised when I was in London how much selection there was for organic foods (at a high price of course).

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The other day at the grocery store, my cohort and I were curious about two new items we noticed - the Pluot and the Aprium. so we picked up a Pluot (Plum with a dash of Apricot) and tried it. Turns out pluots are really good!

Before I continued to eat these strange fruit (also called Dinosaur Eggs apparently) I wanted to find out if they were dreamed up in a lab somewhere…. But my research seems to indicate they are the product of a long period of carefuly natural hybridization, and not a forced genetic mash-up in a test tube. Actually, I was surprised to find out that the Hawaii Papaya that I did a project on in college is the only GM fruit on the market!

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