Are Biotech Foods Safe?

Dangerous games

Dear Sunshiner 24: Actually what you say is a repetition of the biotech industry standard PR points on genetically engineered food products and highly inaccurate. There is no real food shortage in the world. There is a food distribution problem between those who have and those who have not. A lot of that could be sorted out with a compassion approach and sensible politics (I know, it's a scary thought, but not impossible and we do hope). Secondly check out the statistics on the numbers of Indian farmers who have committed suicide because their livelihoods have been taken away by the forced imposition of GM terminator seeds by their government in conjunction with companies such as Monsanto; seeds which they cannot afford nor are they successful replacements for their traditional growing practices. The truth is the the biotech promise of increased crop production through GM seeds has failed to happen. What has happened is they have produced pesticide resistant crops which just happen to require a lot of products such as Roundup which just happen to be made by the same companies that make the GM seeds. Furthermore, the weeds can then become pesticide resistant and so even more pesticides are required, creating an increasing pollution of the crops with chemicals which we already know are not good for us. As to your point about GM engineering being the same as regular breeding of plants, that's also not true. Let's be honest, there is no sex involved here. It is not bringing together different plants to create a healthier hybrid. It is ramming together genetic code from different species: animals , insects, bacteria and plants. The resulting mishmash has the ability to penetrate the normal defense barriers in the human digestive and immune system and cause structural alteration to the human DNA, with consequences that are extremely scary and possibly irreversible.

Sunshine 24, I don't know if you are real in your views or a schill for the biotech industry. But as a human being (potentially with children to care for) I urge you to do some further research into this subject. This is serious stuff and not to be taken lightly. Check out the following web page:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/AboutGMFoods/index.cfm . There's lots more information like this out there.