Genetically altered foods
By Modestah
@Modestah (11179)
United States
March 27, 2007 5:39pm CST
Is there anyone that REALLY WANTS their food to be genetically altered? I dare say not! so how is it that we have no voice in the matter? how is it that monsanto keeps being permitted to mess with our foods and our lives?
From sacharine, to aspartame, to sucralose....to modifying seeds so that they can not reproduce, and will cross pollinate with your harvest so that they too will become inviable.
---------------------------------------------
Saskatchewan?s foxes and deer are dying, and its people are succumbing to alarming rates of prostate and bre@st cancer from chemicals used in the province's canola production.
Those chemicals are administered by agrichemical giant Monsanto, said Percy Schmeiser, who spoke Thursday night to a standing-room only audience in the Alumni Theatre at Thompson Rivers University. "www.kamloopsthisweek.com/...5554&more=------------------------------------------
and now a problem with drinking milk due to Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone... www.infoshop.org/inews/ar...8074922402
I just burns my beans!!!!
1 person likes this
15 responses
@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
28 Mar 07
Monsanto and other large companies that have money to buy government law have been taking money from the small farm by sayng that if the seeds on the small farmers property get polinated by the genetically engineered pollin then the small farmers seed belongs to Monsanto or who ever genetically engineered the seed in the first place. I say that Mansanto should be arrested for "trespassing" on private property. They are genetically engineering traits out of the plants that are needed for diversity of the species.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
28 Mar 07
Yep, that is exactly what DH and I said... monsanto is guilty for not containing their pollen, and letting it attack
verdant fields. If my dog got loose and "polinated" the fellows dog down the road who was chained up in her yard - .... I could not sue the fellow for "making" pups without my permission! ah, but he could sue me for allowing my mutt to cross with his purebred show girl.
@PunkyMcPunk (1477)
• Canada
28 Mar 07
It is because of these alarming things that I am happy that I live on a farm where we grow our own animals have our own gardens, raise chickens for eggs and meat, raise pork, cows, have milk etc.... I know what goes in my belly and I know what i am feeding my child. I think that more and more these days we are going to have to be very careful about buying meat and produce in the stores. Hopefully it will revive the dying agricultural field here in Canada.
1 person likes this
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
28 Mar 07
We also raise chickens and ducks and wanted to start with goat for milk ( a cow would produce too much for us) but with the NAIS issues looming we decided against it. Now that that has been put off for awhile (Thanks be to God) perhaps we will reconsider.
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I am very activily avoiding all the chemicals and junk that we do not need in our diets. We do not purchase anything with MSG in it and that is difficult. We now make most of our mixes and such at home. It takes some getting used to but is well worth it for the health benefits
@Stringbean (1273)
• United States
27 Mar 07
It all comes down to greed. Producers receive more money if they produce more goods. If those goods are engineered to last longer, they will be marketable for a longer period of time and there will be less waste. From the producers standpoint, I guess genetically altered food looks like a good deal.
If consumers are alerted to the problems enough, they may perhaps be convinced to boycott buying such food until it is no longer profitable for it to be produced. I feel strongly the same way about the multiplicity of vaccines they are requiring our children to have in order to get into school these days. They keep saying that they are not harmful, but thinking people can't help but see that certain diseases such as autism are on the increase until you can hardly deny any more that there must be a connection.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I am with you on the vaccines issue as well. It is so frustrating to not have much of a voice in these matters.
Yes, more money, more shelf life, less waste etc - until there are fewer consumers because they are dieing off - oh but then there is more revenue from hospital fees and cancer treatments.
Boogers me to no end.
@desertdawn (13)
• United States
28 Mar 07
I don't know a whole lot about the science involved in the process and any potential side effects, but when nature is left to do her work, she does a WONDERFUL job. Why mess with that?
1 person likes this
@desertdawn (13)
• United States
28 Mar 07
I don't know a whole lot about the science involved in the process and any potential side effects, but when nature is left to do her work, she does a WONDERFUL job. Why mess with that?
1 person likes this
@KetanGulati (579)
• India
28 Mar 07
well I do agree with you.....atleast the food tha we consume and live upon should be free from verything=-- all mixings and contaminations--- all scientific intereferences to make it more sweeter or tastier-- No we don't want that 0---we want our natural foods---that god providedc us.... tey indeed are the best sources of every sngle nutrient....
@harwoodkp (285)
• United States
28 Mar 07
I understand what you are saying. There is so much we dont know about food at the molecular level. We are playing russian rullet with our food when we gentically alter it. We just need to step back and see what we have and we would find that we would not need to genetically alter our food.
@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
27 Mar 07
oh but bigger chickens make for more money, and cows that produce more, mean more money,, and on and on.. it all comes down to the dollar.
1 person likes this
@lonewoulfe (585)
• Philippines
28 Mar 07
Wants our foods to be genetically altered of course the normal reaction would be no, since our knowledge on these tings realistically are limited to science fiction basis. I figured, this will be but a common & wouold not even anymore solicit a fuss than a stale food served at ritzy restaurant. As of now the curiosity of the crowd are more of uneducated reactions & evaluations. If we have to consider it, genetical alteration of foods have been done way back when the first artificial fertilizer was invented.
Genetical alteration of food is news today since it is pictured as an alien type technic but sooner that we will expect & its what will be served come dinner time. chow everyone :-)
@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
28 Mar 07
By genetically engineering (gene manipulation) they want all of the plants (or animlals) to be identical. If that are all the same and anew disease comes along that the plants or animas are not resistant to then all of the species will be wiped out but with diversity then some should be resistant and live to breed more of that species.
@Writerbob (572)
• United States
28 Mar 07
Unfortunately, it's too late. Some of us may try to be hold-outs, but in the end almost all agriculture will be grown by the big corps that will use gen-mod seed. It makes me crazy too, but then so does the War in Iraq, taxation,...AARRGGHH!
@vestieri (32)
• Philippines
28 Mar 07
in terms of food, recombinant DNA is futile since it will only alter the food that you will soon excrete. the real use of this science is for helping us grow artificial limbs for the impaired people. besides, with this science, we can give birth to real comic book heroes!!!! hahahahaha
@SarahSEG (12)
• United States
28 Mar 07
Genetically altered food is a necessity. It is not entirely about greed. If none of our food had ever been genetically altered, we could not grow enough to support the population of our country.
Our crops now are more disease, drought and pest tolerant because of careful "breeding" of plants that showed these desirable characteristics. By encouraging these superior plants to reproduce, be it by simple cross pollenation or by scientific gene manipulation, the quantity and quality of the crops have increased. We are now able to feed more people better than if we had left the crops to their own devices.
@gadvid (63)
• Malaysia
28 Mar 07
Some genetically altered food is save to eat such as rice and banana. But there are limitation to genetically altered food. I think there are rules or regulation that scientist must adhere to. I heard from my biology teacher that genetically altered watermelon which has the taste of a dog meat has cause impotent in the rat specieses.
