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• Reader Comments (4)

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  There’s no doubt in my mind that GMOs are going to disrupt the natural process of how our food is grown, which could harm the human body in the long run.  These people (scientist and what I called “white collard thugs politicians”) are plain plying god with our most precious source in this world: our food.  But the question is not whether or not this process of growing crops, by means of GMOs, would harm humands, but whether people are getting the massage and are becoming educated on the subject.  I can see this issue becoming an epidemic in the future, considering that we still haven’t unlocked the secretes of the genetic code for all the living species in this world. 
  Perhaps one good example that can give all of us a good lesson that when we pretend to be mother nature and interfear with its natural process of creation, is that of the cloned lamb a few years back.  It took scientist almost eighty times to be able to cloned a lamb——It makes me wonder how many times scientist have tried to engeenered food? and that’s if they tried at all to perfectioned the process of GMOs!     

  Posted by Billy Niebla on May 17, 2003 at 6:44 AM

  What the above poster wrote is left-wing environmentalist propaganda. If genetic engineering was not used we would only be able to grow 80% of what we grow now. It is estimated that one billion (thats not a typo) people have been saved from starvation because of genetic engineered foods. It is very easy for those who don’t have to worry about having food on their plates to be angry with genetic engineered foods.

  As many liberals say, “It’s time for us to be citizens of the world.” Well most of the world needs this

  Posted by Brad on May 22, 2003 at 6:35 PM

  I really think the whole philosophy of genetically modifying crops to one’s advange is really a matter of guessing who’s advantage we’re talking about.

  Scientist develop a strain of rice that contains a massive dose of vitamins: Good

  Monsanto’s R&D is caught tinkering with a plants DNA in hopes of “turning off” its immune system: Pure Evil!

  GMO’s, on their own, are no simple matter of black and white. There are plenty of great things that can come out of it as well as terrible results from modifying plants for profit, instead of the greater good, and ending up with things like the “suicide seed” and other strains completely dependant on pesticides and special fertilizers made by the companies who tweaked the plants in the first place.

  Laws should be made as to what can and cannot be done. They are way overdue and it really is up to the media to see more than just a simple Yes-No issue.

  Posted by Alex on May 26, 2003 at 4:24 PM

  Alex, you’re right there are definitely some things that shouldn’t be done, but I don’t have a problem with Monsanto’s R & D tinkering with plants DNA. R&D doesn’t mean it will happen and even so, I believe they would never come out with that type of product and if we can figure out how to “turn off” an immune system, we could probably figure out how so switch it on.

  Posted by Brad on May 26, 2003 at 8:26 PM

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