The real problem with GMO foods is not that they are dangerous but that they are patented and they are engineered so they cannot perpetuate themselves.
Monsanto (or whoever holds the patent) can have entire crop fields seized and destroyed if one of their "products" cross-pollinates with one of God's.
Farmers are then held hostage to the patent owners because they have to purchase new seeds or seedlings every season.
Okay. Those of you who missed the point, commence flaming.
Just tell them that the science is settled and that scientific consensus is all that matters. Just like global warming...
Hungry cows will not eat GMO corn, nor will I.
The big mistake is to believe the lies we are told. In this case we are told GMOs will create food that will save lives. Who could be against that? But it is foolish to believe that saving lives is a concern of big government or big business... In the near future, when spring comes and it is time to plant and the last year’s seeds have been modified to grown sterile fruit, if you want to eat, you have to buy new seeds. If the government took control over the distribution of seeds, you would be forced to conform to the people in power or starve.
It is as if the a new form of energy is being developed and we are told it will improve life for millions only to find out it has been developed only for warfare.. against us!
Remember when the government endowed us with ‘The Clean Water Act’? Who could no want that? Only trouble was, it had nothing to do with clean water. Ever hear of the Affordable Care Act?
With GMOs, we are placing a powerful tool in the hands of people with no morals or scruples and plenty of designs....
One potential aspect is not the GMO itself, but what some of them have been engineered for, and that is, the ability to tolerate the herbicide glyphosate. There is at least some evidence that excessive use can be harmful.
Genetically modified food is part of the ongoing technological progress that allows us to have 7 billion people on the planet, and will easily allow another 7 billion more, against the doomsday predictions of the Club of Rome and other unscientific dunderheads who claim we must limit the human population to 2 billion.
Yeah, kinda like ignoring that life begins at fertilization and instead pushing an agenda that life begins, << POOF >>, when the mother decides not to kill her baby.
I had a client once who was a Japanese scientist. He was so proud that his outfit had engineered honeybees to have underdeveloped stingers, so people could harvest without fear of stings. When I pointed out that stingers are what the bees used for the protection and survival of their hives, he was befuddled. Nature and its laws were not a factor in his engineering.
One GMO that could have devastated agriculture around the world was an experimental soil microorganism that effectively killed off all the beneficial soil bacteria in the test plot in which it was introduced.
Fortunately it was contained to a large plastic container, but without a lid in a greenhouse that had no other biological contamination control measures.
While an extreme example, it does highlight the problem of gene-swapping, especially among microorganisms.
My little dumb sister believes this stuff about chem trails and GMO foods.
Corn was a little nub of a plant until man made it to what it is today along with potatoes and rice etc that keeps alive billions of people.
That is what the envio nazi’s are against. Keeping alive people!
Even one of my very leftist former HS students is now on FB lobbying in favor of GMO crops. Maybe the spell cast by Greenpeace is beginning to break.