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Nov. 19th, 2007 02:30 pmDo you know how much genetically modified food you eat? No. You don't. Because there is no law in the United States requiring genetically modified foods to be labelled.
And that should terrify all of you. There's no way to control genetic modifications in plants from spreading. And no one really knows for sure what eating these foods might do to us in generations to come. Research that refutes research done by the big business that are modifing the stuff gets shut down or goes unpublished.
It's hard to explain to a general audience who doesn't know about recombinant DNA that putting genes into food means they're going to end up in people, and I don't have the strength to type it all out. But it's terrifying, and I don't want to be eating anything thats been messed with without knowing that I'm eating it.
We watched this movie about all this today, and all I could think of was the line in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says "Your scientists were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should." And we all know how well genetic engineering worked out in that case. How they could totally totally control everything. NOT.
And that should terrify all of you. There's no way to control genetic modifications in plants from spreading. And no one really knows for sure what eating these foods might do to us in generations to come. Research that refutes research done by the big business that are modifing the stuff gets shut down or goes unpublished.
It's hard to explain to a general audience who doesn't know about recombinant DNA that putting genes into food means they're going to end up in people, and I don't have the strength to type it all out. But it's terrifying, and I don't want to be eating anything thats been messed with without knowing that I'm eating it.
We watched this movie about all this today, and all I could think of was the line in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says "Your scientists were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should." And we all know how well genetic engineering worked out in that case. How they could totally totally control everything. NOT.
