[grania]

I agree with you. We really don't know the long term effects of so much modification of food sources. What worries me even more is the fun and games that could happen with gene splicing. Could we get chickens with pig genes to make them larger and fatten them up, etc.

There's something else that's definitely bad news. That would be the antibiotics, particularly the large amounts that settle in milk fat. It can cause inter-reactions with other medications.

I'm not at all religious in a formal way. Call it religion or the rules of evolution, it's probably not a good idea to mess with forces that we can't understand. They'll bite back.

[gattaca]

Dairy cows are injected with rBGH, a genetically modified hormone manufactured by Monsanto. Some of the foods are spliced with viruses and things like that.

I just want things to be labeled.

[Texan5]

I like cheese, yogurt and butter-but not milk-I’ve avoided it since I was about 5 or 6, and on the ranch there was plenty of cottage and goats’ milk cheese, butter, etc. The only milk I use for recipes is the non-fat powdered kind, and I only eat “real” cheese-not that other crap.

I believe that food additives like growth hormones and antibiotics fed to livestock are harmful-I only eat free-ranged meat from a small locker plant, chicken and eggs from a neighbor till I get my own.

I don’t think it is a religious thing, other than when you mess with the natural order of things, it is bound to end badly...