The wheat and grain lobby is looking desperate

The wheat and grain lobby is at it again, using their increasingly supportive medium, The Huffington Post: Gluten Intolerance Isn’t Caused By Frankenwheat Because It Doesn’t Exist (It is odd that Huffington Post has, in effect, become the sounding board for the wheat and grain industry to post it’s propaganda pieces, even awful and flawed analyses like this article. I smell a rat.) From the article: “‘There’s no such thing as Frankenwheat.’ “Chibbar’s research involved studying wheat varieties that have been planted in North America since the 19th century. They were grown and analyzed in test plots that have been maintained since 1989. The original intent was to catalogue improvements made in yield and time to harvest since the 1860s when homesteaders planted Ontario-originated Red Fife on their newly broken land. “But the focus shifted when Chibbar began to notice claims from health advisers that new wheat varieties contained high protein levels and different kinds of starch that were contributing to gluten intolerance. “‘A lot of questions started to arise that the modern wheat is very different.’ “Chibbar decided to find out if protein levels really have increased. “The answer was yes. Protein levels have increased by about 0.01 per cent a year. “‘That’s one per cent in a 100 years,’ said Chibbar. ‘The whole thing about protein levels having significant...
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