[CH] Re: Canola Crisis

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Hi Deb:

I'm really busy trying to figure out how to keep the gene-splicers 
out of the chile patch, so I nominate you as Canola Crisis 
Coordinator:-) Hopefully Rael will second.

This whole mess started when I looked up Frito-Lay on the Alta 
Vista search engine and found that the folks from Pepsi voted with 
their wallets and have asked their corn suppliers to not use 
Genetically Engineered corn for 2000. Some felt that this might be 
a marketing coup for Frito-Lay if they could advertise that their 
foods hadn't been gene-spliced. Unfortunately they can't because 
some of the oils which they extrude their corn chips into may be 
genetically incorrect. This led to our old friends Calgene and 
Canola.

Please report back to us:-)

Dave Anderson
Tough Love Chile Co.
http://www.tough-love.com

> Dave Anderson wrote:
> <<Calgene is now owned by Monsanto and appears to be working on genetically
> modified Canola.>>
> 
> Hi, Dave.  Nice summary you gave for the newbies.
> 
> But isn't Canola already genetically modified rapeseed?  Doesn't "Canola"
> mean "Canadian Oil Low Acid" or something like that since the modification
> was to lower the fatty acid content of rapeseed oil?   So, then, Monsanto is
> planning to modify a modification?....where does it end?  Scenes from the
> Woody Allen movie with the giant bananas come to mind (don't go there
> Professor Doctor Sir Knight Gareth).
 

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