The Irrational Fear of GM Food

WorldFoodPrize.org ^ | Oct. 22, 2013 | MARC VAN MONTAGU

[mexicali]

I’m not sure your statement has anything to do with GMO food, but here is some information for you.
Bhutan is becoming world’s first wholly organic country .
Also the following countries and territories have banned or restricted the import, distribution, sale, utilization, field trials and commercial planting of GMO’s:
Latin America: Brazil, Paraguay , Bolivia has enacted a total ban of GMOs and Mexico has banned GM corn.
Africa: Algeria, Egypt
Asia: Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Japan, Phillipines
The European Union: Norway, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Poland, Luxembourg, Portugal.
Middle East: Saudi Arabia
Pacific: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Australia, New Zealand
North America: Maryland has banned GE (genetically engineered) fish and North Dakota and Montana have filed bans on GE wheat. The Municipalities of Burlington, Vermont (declared a moratorium on GE food), Boulder, Colorado (bans on GE crops) and the City and County of San Francisco (urged the federal government to ban GE food) are the only towns or states to take some sort of stand against plants, animals, foods, crops and body products that are, or contain Genetically Modified Organisms.

[mexicali]

You should not pretend that traditional crossbreeding and genetic splicing is the same thing.
Crossbreeding has created many great plants but also some very nutritionally weak plants. The modern varieties of wheat are causing an epidemic of autoimmune disorders. We may find that ‘GM’ foods are no more or even less dangerous than the worst crossbred plants.
The GM crops look good but lack nutrient density and the flavor that goes with it. At the farmers markets so popular everywhere people want the best tasting fruits and vegetables. Often the best ones are ‘conventionally’ grown rather than ‘organic’, but I’ve never seen people lining up to buy GMO produce.

[Mr. Lucky]

Wow, Boulder must be a great city for its city council to possess the expertise to know that, in all instances, the ingestion of clothianidin or carbaryl or imidicloprid is healthier for consumers than the ingestion of gmo crops.

[CodeToad]

“You should not pretend that traditional crossbreeding and genetic splicing is the same thing.”

If you actually knew anything about this subject you’d know they are very much the same thing.

[mexicali]

Cross breeding is limited to exchanges between the same or very closely related species. It can also take a long time to achieve desired results and frequently, characteristics of interest do not exist in any related species. GM technology enables plant breeders to bring together in one plant useful genes from a wide range of living sources, not just from within the crop species or from closely related plants. This powerful tool allows plant breeders expand the possibilities beyond the limits imposed by conventional plant breeding. (Source: ISAAA.org)