Originally Posted by
Red X
The law is iffy on the current biotechnology that is going on with genetic modification of crops. Its hard to even separate the modified from the non-modified (accidents happen). Also, genetic food is released well before its fully tested and even if it doesn't harm humans directly it still has been shown to harm us indirectly.
But my feeling is if you're fucked you're fucked. I prefer cheaper.
There is a major *reasonable* question behind the use of biotech plants... How do you prevent them from getting in the wild or mess up the local ecology? Either you have self-teminating plants, and thus the whole food industry ends up in the pockets of Monsanto (There was a case, IRC, where a farmer's crop was affected by the pollen of a neighbor's GMO crop, and the farmer was sued by the IP owner behind that particular GMO... I'll have to look that up before I can qualify that as anything more the heresay though), or you end up with plants that are self sustaining, but can escape into the wild, with far reaching implications in that (say, corn with toxic pollen gets loose, decimates local bee population, and suddenly all the fruit producers in the area are screwed).
GMO stands to the world a lot of good... we just need to know how to proceed before we potentially make things worse...