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Originally Posted by Matata
The website also uses a lot of incendiary terms and ridicule that are the hallmarks of junk science and seems to only support a pro-GMO dialogue. It seems like the fellow that runs that site, Jon Entine, is an Agri-business shill:
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...yes-jon-entine
http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/jon-entine/
For example, when you modify the DNA of corn so that it produces it's own pesticide, we cannot say what the long term health affects of ingesting that product would be. Will it cause birth defects? Will health affects only manifest in second generation eaters? Does it suddenly make you explode with cancer in 30 years? No one can answer these questions with any certainty, there simply is no precedent for combining strawberry and fish DNA.
There's also harm caused from genetic copyrighting, which gives the Agri-Businesses a disturbing amount of power over what we eat. Monsanto has wiped out neighboring farmers fields when Monsanto's genetically copyrighted crops cross-pollinated with those farmers crops, on the grounds that those farmers are guilty of copyright infringement due to natural, inevitable cross-pollination. Huge for profit companies that are trying to dominate the food market while being supported by a paid-off US gov't, is something that I find very scary. |
Read that case, that person was found to knowingly plant Monsanto seed on his property without a license.
Also you said there IS tremendous harm, you didn't say "there might be tremendous harm", all you have done is speculate (explode from cancer
).