GMO Apple

 Coloradans, you may be seeing an new apple coming your way soon. An apple a day, keeps organic growers away… If that apple is an Arctic Apple.” There is quite a furor going on regarding the trademarked Arctic Apple which is a genetically modified apple engineered not to brown. It is the invention of a Canadian company named Okanagan Specialty Fruits. Listen to what R. Gerhauser M.D. has to say about it. “Thanks to new technology, you will not have to suffer eating brown apples much longer. About to be approved is an apple that absolutely will not brown. They call it  the Arctic Apple. Some scientists in Canada genetically modified the apple by introducing a gene that creates resistance to an antibiotic, kanamycin, which happens to also disable the enzyme that leads to the browning of apples. They expect that this GMO apple will be approved in the United States very soon. You can look forward to seeing these apples in the store. They probably won’t be labeled as genetically modified. That is because right now there are no rules that say you have to put that on the label. .”
I don’t know if that was a sales pitch for what. Here’s what I do know. This is going to cause a lot of controversy just like any other GMO product. Now Colorado, you inherited your beloved NHL team, the Avalanche from Canada. I wonder if your next inheritance, the Arctic Apple, will prove as great a success? Only time will tell.