GMO potato company fires back
Earth Action leader Sharon Labchuk said in that article that genetically modified products are unsafe. But Doug Cole, director of marketing and communications at J.R. Simplot, the Idaho-based company that developed the potato, disagrees.
“There are no studies from credible peer-reviewed science organizations anywhere in the world that show that genetically engineered foods are unsafe as compared to their conventional counterparts,” he said in an email to The Guardian.
“In fact, Innate generation one potatoes reduce acrylamide, a probable carcinogen, by up to 70 per cent when potatoes are cooked at high temperatures by consumers, so you can actually say they are safer than conventional potatoes.”
He also said Labchuk’s objection to Innate seeds being corporate-controlled was unfounded. Simplot sells to independent growers the same way conventional seeds are sold.
He went on to say that this also leaves growers free to use Innate seeds however they wish – if they don’t want to use pesticides, they don’t have to.
Source: www.theguardian.pe.ca