Genetically Engineered food...

The dirty corporations are at it again and this time they are poisoning our food.

http://online.sfsu.edu/%7Erone/GEessays/WhatisGE.html
http://www.gefoodalert.org/pages/home.cfm
http://www.netlink.de/gen/home.html
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/geff4.html

The problem is that the administration cares little about testing, because while you're testing a product you could be making money.

So they rush all their products out into the market and what happens is we are all faced with a possible environmental disaster. It really is that serious, these seeds are genetically engineered to last only for a certain time period and leave the soil in which they grew in lifeless. And as seeds do they get spread to other parts with no possible way for the farmer to control such crop contamination. The worst part is that Monsanto targets the 3rd world farmer, so basically you have 3rd world farmers growing cash crops which are essentially ecological time bombs.

that's what I call an under the belt BUT extremely intelligent move on Monsanto's part. They force the farmer to keep buying new seeds every year, or spray them with some chemical that only Monsanto sells... I think if that **** got out of control it'd be pretty disastrous.

But I think the FDA has a lot on it's hands though, it's no excuse not to be on top of things but they have to deal with pharmaceuticals, GMF AND the host of chemicals additives that are replacing naturally occurring organic compounds... That's a lot to enforce, especially with all these corporations spending billions in lobbying campaigns to get their products approved.

I think the social responsibility is ultimately with the shareholders of these corporations. Internalize the externality, it's basic economics that they're overlooking, mostly because the shareholders just don't understand the consequences.

The thing with GMOs is that we just don't know enough about genetics to start applying this knowledge on such a large scale. I mean we're talking about 3 billion years of evolution... But here we are doing just that and like history has shown throughout the millennia, we only learn when faced with disaster.

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