Media Feeds Scare over Genetically Modified Products

Accuracy In Media ^ | 06/30/2003 | William R Alford

[walford]

"...Testifying earlier this year before the House Agriculture Committee, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) explained that GM foods are banned in Europe "under the cloak of food safety" while protectionism is the true object. If higher yielding, less expensive and more nutritious foods enter their markets, domestic European agriculture is threatened. If Third World farmers are more able to feed their domestic populations with such crops, competing European imports would also be threatened - so much for Green Benevolence vs. Corporate Greed..."

[walford]

Thanks to the Freepers who participated in earlier threads on this subject, especially BilltheDrill. It provied motivation for me to expand on an issue upon which the fate of millions are at stake.

[Keith in Iowa]

I hate to tell you...but Genetically Modified Products have been eaten for hundreds of years.

Don't think so?

What is hybridization in the plant world? What is selective breeding in animal husbandry? It's genetic modification - on a macrocellualr level. Now they can do it at the microcellular level. This issue is a rehash of every new innovation that has come allong...pasteurization was demonized in the beginning, and now it's accepted.

[walford]

"I hate to tell you...but Genetically Modified Products have been eaten for hundreds of years..."

Amongst my references was this little gem:

http://www.tomorrowsbounty.org/library/prepubvs91502a.htm

"...We have large and various orchards and gardens wherein we practice all conclusions of grafting and inoculation, whereby we make trees and flowers to come earlier or later than their seasons, and their fruit greater and sweeter and of differing taste, smell, colour, and figure from their nature; and likewise to make one tree or plant turn into another..."

The English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon predicting the future of agricultural research in 1618 (extract from New Atlantis).

[JCG]

Anyone see Penn & Teller's HBO "Bullsh*t" segment on this subject? It was a hoot and absolutely destroys the arguments of the fearmongers.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://video.ire.org/10650.ram (Requires RealPlayer)

Who is Steve Emerson?

[Physicist]

GM foods are banned in Europe "under the cloak of food safety" while protectionism is the true object.

"Rearden Metal", anyone?