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Originally posted by MagiK:
Reeka, Im A OK with GM foods, I am also quite happy to allow irradiation to be used to sterilize and preserve food as well. Most of the objections are "what If" scenarios with no real scientific backing. Hysteria, and Hype are the weapons used against both which of course I detest. As you say, we have been eating them for decades and our expected life span has steadily increased, not decreased.
With GM foods there is a problem with cross polination, but without modified foods and farming technique we wouldn't have 6 billion people alive right now. I think it is unconscionable that people are starving while tons of GM food sit untouched.
All just my opinion on what I have seen in the press.
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I too am for GM food as long as you stick a label on it. That procedure would even help some unemployed to get som money in their pockets.
But the main argument against GM food is not human helath. Rather it is the unknown effects on nature. Of course Gm food could cause mutations in humans, in theory at least. But AFAIK no such case has been reported.
But I can't agree that GM food is the solution to world hunger. First we could try and remove all subsidies to our farmers in the western country and let the poorer countries develop their own agriculture.
But that's a whole other story.
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