Is Genetically Modified Wheat the Solution to Celiac Disease?

No. We need more attention paid to the contamination of our food that's happened through the use of excessive pesticides, second-hand smoke and diesel fumes during harvesting and transport, and factory-farmed animals that are pumped with antibiotics and hormones designed to make them plumper and/or keep them alive under unhealthy conditions. We have contaminated the food chain so much. We should be cleaning it up, not using our energy to genetically modify foods. GMOs are creating new problems, and encourage us to feel that we can ignore the messes we've already made. I'm celiac and I can live without GMO wheat, designed to line some bigwig's pockets. Trust issues? You bet.

Genetic modification can make plants more resistant to pests without using pesticides. I am not sure how you think products should be transported.

GMO's are bad not because they are GMO's. They're bad because of the reasons they are modifying them. GMO crops are modified so they are resistant to or naturally produce pesticides and herbicides, allowing farmers to use stronger and stronger chemicals as the organisms they are fighting off adapt to them...something that you obviously don't want to be eating. Lumping all GMOs into the "bad" category, is idiotic.

There is no way I would eat GMO anything. I can't believe that you even are suggesting that this would be a good thing. The manipulation of wheat and GMO's is what created the celiac problem in the first place - READ Dr William Davis's book and read the science behind the genes! There are plenty of other grains we can eat and actually humans were never designed to be eating grains to begin with.

I don't care who thinks GMO's are the way to 'cure' anything! They are destructive and I refuse to ever eat Frankenfood. I support certified organic and the environment the way it's meant to be not this fake food!

I'm on board, all science is not bad, in fact without it, many of us even wouldn't be here......I'll take GMO over bellyaches any day of the week !!!

If you are coeliac avoid it...after all wheat is still wheat.

Christy - Too bad it doesn't work that way. Strains of wheat and other grains cross pollinate from particles carried on the wind, by vehicles, equipment, birds, people etc. Once a GMO wheat is planted in an area, all of the surrounding fields get cross-pollinated (cross-contaminated) by it. We will all end up with GMO wheat whether we want it or not. I say NOT! (Check out what Monsanto's GMO soybeans have done to the soybean market.)

I definitely think it's worth trying! And as usual if you're against it, you don't have to eat it. You can sit back and watch the rest of us enjoy!

I agree with you. I have celiac and would love some real tasting bread, especially rye. So someone try something!!!

Let's ask the people wit celiac disease what they think. This sounds like it is still in the early stages of development, but sounds like it could be a breakthrough. In the long run, if we ban all GM Foods, we will starve.

In the long run, GMO food production, with its soil depleting monoculture and heavy use of pesticides and/or herbicides it promotes, will cause the starvation or ill health of everything on the planet.

Why do you assume GMO wheat will be "drenched in herbicides? I don't think GMO and organic are mutually exclusive. GMO wheat can save eyesight in developing countries.

Because vitamins cannot be utilized by the human body as isolates, adding the production of vitamin A alone into a rice product with genes from another plant won't help blindness. It has already been shown not to work. And, by adding DNA from one species into another, we have no idea what nature will do with the result in the long run.

What other medical conditions will genetically engineered wheat bring on? Leave nature to nature and just cut out foods with gluten from your diet. It's not the end of the world! There is still plenty left to eat!

I agree 100%. I've not starved yet on the gluten-free diet! We don't need GMO's .

Yes, I think this is worthy of continued research and could provide options for those of us with celiac or other gluten reactions. There are plenty of us who see the benefit of GMO foods or foods produced by a corporation (oh dear!). Excuse me while I enjoy my Cinnamon Chex. I might even eat a Snickers bar later today.

No I would not eat any form of GMO wheat. All studies indicate people having problems with GMO anything having symptoms similar to the reactions we have as gluten intolerant beings. Our bodies are simply rejecting GMO products and one issue showing up is leaky gut for millions. NO, bad idea!