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  Real Fear

  I think there are real fears behind GM foods. What was wrong with "real" "whole" non-GM food?

  One serious point is that we're putting altered DNA into our systems when we consume GM foods. The purpose of DNA is to bind and replicate. Once this gets into our systems how do we know (for example) how a tilapia-spliced tomato is changing our bodies?

  GM foods (like GM fish) are often more aggressive than non-GM. They take over an ecosystem and eradicate the diversity that once was.

  This aggressive takeover and fall of genetic diversity provides us with monocultures. Monocultures are horrible in any environment. Does anyone need to be reminded of the potato famine? We currently have monoculture soy and corn in the U.S., what happens when the corn crop fails, like it did in 1970?

  By picking GM foods over "regular" foods we are marking the "regular" food for extinction. We already know that by tearing down the rainforests we are killing off potentially medically helpful plants and animals. By picking GM over non-GM food, how do we know what vitamins and nutrients we are saying goodbye to? What is wrong with eating potatoes and spinach? I don't need a potato spliced with iron from spinach.

  On a slight tangent, the argument that we're helping feed developing countries through GM foods is bs. Developing countries are starving and can no longer feed themselves b/c we have erected our corporate plants (like coca-cola) in these countries. We buy up land and put toxins into the ground (through factory waste) so family farmers can no longer work the fields, forcing them into cities, which creates a cheap labor force by overpopulation. This drives the people, who could once grow their own foods, into the factories and now they don't have the time to farm for themselves. They are forced to buy their food (imported) which keeps them working and keeps them buying. Let's try to solve the root of the problems instead of creating solutions for problems we implement.
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