[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Mikulski protects corporations at the expense of the little guy. Such a good Democrat. /s

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[familyop]

I don’t know much about health effects from eating such hybrids, but plants in general tend to be stronger against natural problems if left more diverse, each type original and not crossed. Possible famine in the future is probably more of a concern. Animals and people are the other way around—best as mutts and not interbred.

[Nachum]

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Obama and Agenda 21

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[exDemMom]

You know, if cooking were a new invention, the controversy over its safety would be deafening. Cooking food changes everything about it. It denatures proteins, causing them to take on properties they never had in nature. It breaks up cellular structure, and destroys the cell walls of plants. It combines foods and causes chemical reactions between those foods that would never happen from eating those foods raw. We are not exposed to the chemicals created through cooking through any other means. We still don't know what most of those chemicals are, nor have they been rigorously tested for safety.

We also have been genetically engineering foods for millennia. Funny, now that the process has become very streamlined and targeted, there is all kinds of fear-mongering. Instead of mixing different organisms and hoping for a result that incorporates the desirable traits while omitting the undesirable traits, we can now specifically identify traits.

You don't want that one gene that makes tomatoes susceptible to a particular blight? Fine, we can get rid of it without affecting any other genes in that tomato! Targeted gene engineering is much less random and unpredictable than the old methods.

Why targeted genome alteration causes such concern, while random genome alteration with unpredictable results is barely noticed is... well, it is an interesting facet of human psychology.

[allmendream]

More people have been harmed from taking herbal supplements than have ever been harmed from eating GM foods.

They are popular with farmers, their customers. If the farmers didn’t think they were worth the money - they wouldn’t spend the money buying GM crop seeds.

Due to fears about GM foods only the big players can pay the great expense to enter the market, and they must lobby the government to prevent even more regulation. So now those that produce GM foods are condemned as “big business” that lobby the government! Yeah - kind of a necessity in the environment created by the fear mongers.