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The US produces tons of GM foods. They are banned in Europe (won't take the imports). Thus, the European farmers have no competition. Zimbabwe and Tanzania have turned down tons of GM food products offered by the US, using the ratinal that it is better that the people starve to death than risk being possibly made ill by GM foods. In the ten years or so that GM foods have been consumed in the US, no ill effects have been attributed to the GM foods.
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Your statement that there have been no ill effects is incorrect. There is at least a doubling of food-related illnesses in the United States since 1994.
http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2001/011103.html
You present the argument that Europe has banned genetically modified food as a forl of farmer protectionism however this argument holds no water. Foods that have not been genetically modified are still imported across Europe. The truth of the matter is that European countries have looked at the danger of genetically modified foods and unlike their American counterparts at the FDA declined to be bribed or coerced by the food producers and effected their ban as a measure of public safety.
The response of the United States to Africa’s declining of Genetically Modified foods as famine relief is to deny any food relief unless African nation take the GMF’s and to continue to make unsupported claims that GM foods are not only safe bet better.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/service38.htm
For more information read:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/health/gmo.htm
http://www.natural-law-party.net/key...ified_food.htm
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=1488
http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/17/kelloggs_gm_corn.htm
In the United States it is illegal to mark a food as either genetically altered or irradiated. The only reason for this law is that people will not purchase such foods and the food manufactures demanded that consumers remain unaware of the dangers of such practices.
All of which was academic to me. My sister-law is a genetic engineer (not employed in the food industry) and her thoughts on genetically modified foods is painfully clear. She will not allow her children to eat anything she has not approved. All their families food is either grown by them or by local organic farmers and herders. She says we have no idea just how dangerous these things are.