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There's always a risk when creating cereal varieties to fit a specific purpose, as we haven't been adapted to them.

It reminds me of the wheat hibridization that greatly improved wheat. It is suspected that it has a role to play in the increasing incidence of celiac disease in recent times, as certain more of certain gliadins. It'll be years until we know for sure if that's the case.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24524657/



Probably 80M people are willing to risk it to eat, though... Striking to see cases like this where an autocratic system can back initiatives that would be bogged down in protests from the left about GM and/or the right about conspiracy theories in a more democratic state.




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