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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xyzzy" data-source="post: 322504" data-attributes="member: 40343">I agree with you whole heatedly Lucy and I think you make an extremely valid point. The problem is that modern wheat while it has massively increased crop yields has become something different to what it use to be i.e. high gluten or however you want to define it. I see it as a major contributor to what is going on. I don't think the modern breeds were developed for any malicious reasons though it just came about as a by product of getting increased yields. The problem is what to replace them with as there are 7 billion people to feed?  The old breeds presumably couldn't supply the demand required even if we accept they were healthier.Personally I don't see what difference there really is between selective breeding and GM as both are effectively changing the genetic makeup of the thing they are being applied to its just that GM is a far more efficient way of getting to the selective breed you're after in my opinion. Both ways could and have been used to produce the modern varieties of wheat as far as I'm aware. If someone GM'ed or spent the equivalent years selectively breeding  a version of wheat that was genetically similar to "old style" safe wheat but had the yields of the modern day varieties would people still object I wonder?</blockquote>

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