Posted on 03/28/2009 12:41:32 PM PDT by AndrewWalden
Genetically engineered foods, also known as biotech foods, were first commercialized in the mid-1990s, well over a decade ago. Since that time, people have eaten billions of servings of food containing one or more biotech ingredients, and there has not been a single substantiated instance of illness or harm associated with the research and technology that went into developing those foods – not one.
(Excerpt) Read more at themolokaidispatch.com ...
Related article:
The Future of Fraud
“Monsanto Scientific and Community Affairs”
Yeah, THAT’S a credible source. /sarc
cold hard facts like these don’t matter to the anti GM crowd. Their goal is to scare and unfortunately that’s what people pay attention to. It’s how Al Gore made 10’s of millions of dollars, won a nobel peace prize, and has yet to be exposed as the charlatan that he is by the media.
GTCB
Excellent post. They hate people and always have.
Actually, most everything we’ve been eating for the last 100+ years has been “GM” — look at triticale, the cross between wheat and rye. Sure, it pre-dates recombinant DNA techniques, but it wasn’t natural - it took Norman Borlaug to cross them.
Look at all the wheat/corn/etc breeding that has been happening for over 100 years. All of that is truly GM - just done the “old fashioned way.”
I’ve been eating genetically engineered maize every summer since 1973 and it hasn’t killed me yet.
No direct harm. But lots of indirect harm, and an agricultural soil disaster happening right now.
The worst of the indirect harm is from lawfare, the ownership of the GM genotype extending into other people’s crops. That is, if a GM plant pollinates a non-GM crop, the courts have held that your crop becomes the property of the GM patent owner. This is theft, and it stinks.
Once GM crops become established in a country, because of free pollination it becomes hard, if not impossible, to grow a “private” crop of the same species, that cannot be taken from you.
The horrific disaster was based in good intentions, to make GM plants that would be resistant to soil diseases. Unfortunately, a bunch of different GM plants, especially cotton and trees, kill off essential soil microbes. Without these, the soil cannot rehabilitate itself for subsequent generations of plants.
This is already creating alarm in India, where “bt” cotton crops are basically killing the soil, so plants may not be able to grow there for years. After a few years of crops, the farmers will be wiped out.
How do you account for the third eye just above your left ear then?
I may account for it, but that doesn’t mean I talk about it.
I left off the :)
didn’t triticale kill the tribbles?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.