Fllod Resistant Rice?

[FranDaMan]

I read this: Open Original Shared Link and my initial thought was that this is a good thing and very benign. Then I realized that once again they are messing with the gene structure of an innocent and innocuous food staple for most of us. I'm not an anti-science guy by any means but it seems that we never know what these changes mean to humans for several generations. When they super-glutened wheat it took a long time to even begin to acknowledge that it may have been a a bad thing. Now they are tampering with rice. What is next?

[Takala]

I read the article and it says the plants are the result of precision (selective) breeding and not genetic modification. That is why this was able to be done at UC Davis , because California has banned the breeding of genetically modified rice so far, because the California rice crop is renowned for it certain qualities and exported to countries like Japan, where they don't want genetically modified rice mixed into the general rice supply.

That being said, it is crucial that we continue to watch the activities of the giant agri business companies such as Monsanto, who are working on genetically modifying various grain crops in places such as China, and don't care whether or not doing so would make the last common safe grain for most of us inedible. These companies, once they turn a genetically modified grain loose into the fields, end up having its pollen cross contaminate all other nearby fields and spreading the altered DNA around.