Ted, I would agree that raising one's own food helps us be incontrol of our own food, as does buying from trusted farmers, butunfortunately, that's not sustainable for most people. That's theroute I've had to take, due to reactions to a few substancescommonly used in farmer produce, so I can say this from first-handexperience. But 1) growing enough produce to feed your family takesland and time, both of which many of us don't have unless we've gotmoney to buy enough land and we're farming full time. That's notlaziness, that's a lack of resources. Led Tunnel Light
2) There are not enoughfarmers growing without GM produce to support more than a smallpopulation. The reason we've got a huge agro-business is becausewe've lost most of our smaller farmers until we don't HAVE enoughsmall farmers to support us. Hal, there's no food bourne illnesses that I've heard of, it'sother problems that are cropping up with GM foods. Or rather, thereare issues that are appearing in studies on animals. China Led High Bay Lighting
To date, Ibelieve there has only been one study on humans, and that only tolook for evidence of GM pesticide DNA in women and their fetuses(it showed up in both). In the USA, GM foods were allowed into thefood supply without any testing done on them. Curiously, the manwho made that FDA policy then became the vice president of one ofthe largest GM companies, Monsanto. He worked for them before hegot his job at the FDA, as well. One of the reasons scientists are concerned is that some animalstudies on GM foods show negative effects on the body. China Led Industrial Lighting Fixtures
With theseissues showing up in animals, many scientists believe we shouldn'tbe using these ourselves until we know how they do - or don't -affect humans. Perhaps in the end they will be shown to have no effect, but usingthem without that knowledge seems foolish. And it's something thatwill affect an entire generation AND our environment. Makes methink of some of the biological disasters which Europeans broughtwith them when they introduced new species to habitats and ended updestroying entire populations. A GM food seems like a small thing,because it looks like the original, but it may have a big effect.
2) There are not enoughfarmers growing without GM produce to support more than a smallpopulation. The reason we've got a huge agro-business is becausewe've lost most of our smaller farmers until we don't HAVE enoughsmall farmers to support us. Hal, there's no food bourne illnesses that I've heard of, it'sother problems that are cropping up with GM foods. Or rather, thereare issues that are appearing in studies on animals. China Led High Bay Lighting
To date, Ibelieve there has only been one study on humans, and that only tolook for evidence of GM pesticide DNA in women and their fetuses(it showed up in both). In the USA, GM foods were allowed into thefood supply without any testing done on them. Curiously, the manwho made that FDA policy then became the vice president of one ofthe largest GM companies, Monsanto. He worked for them before hegot his job at the FDA, as well. One of the reasons scientists are concerned is that some animalstudies on GM foods show negative effects on the body. China Led Industrial Lighting Fixtures
With theseissues showing up in animals, many scientists believe we shouldn'tbe using these ourselves until we know how they do - or don't -affect humans. Perhaps in the end they will be shown to have no effect, but usingthem without that knowledge seems foolish. And it's something thatwill affect an entire generation AND our environment. Makes methink of some of the biological disasters which Europeans broughtwith them when they introduced new species to habitats and ended updestroying entire populations. A GM food seems like a small thing,because it looks like the original, but it may have a big effect.