Has our food been the same ever since?

30 YEARS OF GM EDITING

Australia is marking 30 years of agricultural GM technology in this country, a milestone that highlights how genetic science has evolved from helping farmers control pests and weeds, to completely transforming agriculture, crops, and our way of life.

The story began in 1996, when genetically-modified cotton was commercially adopted in Australia – developed to protect cotton plants from damaging insect pests.

The technology helped reduce crop losses and reliance on insecticides, demonstrating how genetic technology could deliver practical benefits for farmers.

Over the following years, genetic technology expanded into other crops, most notably canola. GM canola varieties were developed with tolerance to particular herbicides, presenting farmers with ‘more options to control weeds and pests’.

For years, it stayed at this point – until a new ‘revolution’ in science arrived.

Researchers are now increasingly looking beyond traditional GM technology towards advanced techniques, such as CRISPR, to evolve leaps and bounds beyond this point.

CRISPR now allows scientists to make highly-targeted changes to a plant’s DNA.

In some cases, it can modify a plant’s existing genetic material without introducing a gene from another species. This has opened up new possibilities for ‘crop improvement’.

Rather than focusing on protecting crops from insects or weeds, researchers can now investigate genetic changes to ‘help plants’ with drought, heat, disease, and other stresses.

Other goals include improving nutritional value, increasing productivity, and helping crops use water and other resources more efficiently.

The shift towards gene-editing does not make conventional GM technology obsolete, though. Instead, genetic modification, gene-editing, and conventional plant breeding are increasingly being viewed as ‘complementary’ tools.

Scientists can select the most ‘appropriate approach’ depending on the crop, the trait they want to develop, and the intended outcome.

The evolution from cotton in 1996 to today’s gene-editing research illustrates just how far agricultural biotechnology has come – and not for the better.

What began largely as a way to control pests and weeds has slowly evolved to become a gateway to Frankenstein Foods, and radical transformations presented as climate ‘solutions’.

Our government, and their relaxation of regulations surrounding this, has helped progress the plan along – with safeguards largely removed and the gates of crop hell opened wide.

In the future, what was initially designed as a way to protect our systems will end up replacing them entirely with a synthetic, unnatural replication.

SAFEGUARDS DROPPED

The state of Australia’s produce has not been the same since we allowed mad scientists to come in and have free range to splice and slice our agricultural industry as they please.

I have been a part of the fight against GM and gene-editing technologies for the better-part of half of the GM lifespan, 15 years, regularly protesting each phase of the plan.

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But no matter how many people spoke up in opposition, the government ignored them.

Authorities would deregulate CRISPR gene-editing methods for numerous products at the end of 2019, in a move experts said threatened organic production.

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Not long after, states would follow, like the South Australian government lifting their long-standing ban on genetically modified crops beginning in 2020.

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In 2021, New South Wales lifted their 18-year moratorium on genetically modified crops across the region, in a move welcomed by the state’s peak farming body.

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Since this defining decision to remove the safeguards surrounding our food system, Australia has witnessed a GM infiltration of the marketplace across the country.

In 2023, after being submitted to regulators, Australia became the first country to approve the world’s first GM bananas – allowing more products like this to come through.

We also saw an application by a company to grow and sell GM purple tomatoes.

Significantly, foods made using new breeding techniques like genome editing are no longer classified as GM food if the genetic change ‘doesn’t introduce novel DNA’.

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In other words, it is very hard to even tell what real food is anymore – and what is fake.

This is a worldwide agenda. We have seen other continents in the fight of their lives against the GM lobby as well, including Europe, the United States, New Zealand, and more.

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They want us eating absolute crap at the end of the day, with no nutrition or beneficial qualities, like new ‘plastic biscuits’ being pushed by the Cult of Scientism.

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That way, we can become Big Pharma’s customers even quicker, and for longer.

Good, organic, real food is one of the system’s biggest threat.

This is why they are so focused on completely destroying whatever remains with more advanced techniques and deranged ideas each passing year.

I, for one, won’t be celebrating this 30 year milestone.

The madness has gone on for long enough.

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