[Bardan the Slayer]

What's wrong with it is that scientists know alot, but not everything. Most of our fears over here are based on cross-contamination. You plant a GM crop in one place, pollen from those crops finds it's way to a natural crop, and bingo - you are introducing the GM genes into the natural crop.

If it was just ripeners and added vitamins, nobody would care, but the truth is, we don't know enough about the genetic code to know for certain that the changes we've introduced will have no side-effects. Now, side-effects are nothing new, but this is a one-way street. If GM crops are planted, and they cross-pollinate with natural crops, and then it turns out there's a flaw, a mistake been made that causes something unforseen and undesireable to occur, what then? Once you've introduced it into the food chain, how do you get it out again?

We're not luddites over here. We're not anti-GM for some ephemeral reason - we simply want more concrete proof of it's safety, in terms of long term studies, withjout having it pushed down our throats *now* only to find out 20 years from now that we've been adversly affected.

The USA is willing to go with it - fine! I couldn't care less. Actually, I hope it works out, then we'll partake and we will all benefit. Until the safety issue has been addressed, however, most people here will be unconvinced, and so will the governments.