[Doogle]

daminozide.

[muawiyah]

Just as long as they don’t breed wheat gluten into the corn and potatoes I don’t really care.

[Hacklehead]

Not this Cr*p again. This stuff has been on the market for a long time. Virtually EVERYONE in the US has eaten large amounts of it over that time. What use is additional clinical trials testing maybe 200 people. This is just another attack by Greenpeace and the other radical nutjob groups on American industry.

[bert]

All corn is generically modified. There is no, zero, nada corn that is not genetically modified.

For ages the Hopi have had corn genetically modified to thrive in different parts of the same field.

[corkoman]

The regulatory pathway for introducing GM food is so arduous that mountains of data are required. The author is wrong in its assessment of data needs.

Its easy to be a chicken little about GM foods but humans have been modifying food for tens of thousands of years.

[PeterPrinciple]

we are now faced with a reality in which never-before-consumed foods are considered innocent until proven guilty.

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Wow, innocent until proven guilty, there is a concept we need to get rid of.....................

Again, the seriousness of the charge proves they are guilty.

[davidlachnicht]

Wow, I haven't had to post this poster in, hell, 8 years or so,...

[davidlachnicht]

So that’s why Ethanol sucks!

[PeterPrinciple]

has led to our current system of weak regulatory oversight.

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Liberals constantly believe that more regulation with solve problems.............

[pb929]

Let’s just go back to manual low-tech farming with plows pulled by oxen and let half the world starve....just think of the benefits to the planet.

[USS Alaska]

Why post this crap?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Canola.
It used to be inedible rapeseed.

then some Canadian scientists began fooling around with the genetics and the damage was done...

[Mortrey]

The “Won” appoints Monsanto fox to guard food safety hen house—

Former Monsanto vice president Michael Taylor.

(after K.(fisting) Jennings was appointed “safe school” czar and many other ridiculous appointments....this kinda gives me pause...)

[VOA]

bump

[Oceander]

I guess it must be safe - everyone's been eating it for years, and not even the uber-fascist liberals at greenpeace can find any statistically significant deaths to link to it. Of course, no liberal ever let something as petty as the facts stand in the way of a good ideological attack.

[VOA]

“
Genetically Modified Corn – Safe or Toxic?
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Just my $0.02...

The GM food should be checked for safety; in the case of corn/maize
only a few trillion test have been run by consumers that eat it
every day of the year.

But rigorous monitoring should be a part of vetting these materials.

And good labeling should be part of the program.

On the other hand...
I can’t help but wonder if some of the GM-food critics are hoping
their shares in Whole Foods, etc. will go up...and short companies
that utilize GM food in their products.

Just call me cynical.

[texmexis best]

The study done was done by NGOs that are gunning for GM ag products and the studies are total BS.

I know one of the developers of Round Up and our casual conversations about the chemical lead me to believe that these studies have no basis in facts.

Round Up is a solvent for chloraphyll and that is all it is.

The idea that Round Up would show up in corn ears is absurd. It is water soluble and it disappears during the first rain after application.

This is pure fantasy.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Mother Earth News

[SunkenCiv]

The Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization that seeks sustainable alternatives to harmful methods of food production technologies, estimates that more than 70 percent of the processed foods in U.S. grocery stores contain some genetically modified ingredients -- mostly corn or soy.

[AnalogReigns]

ALL corn we eat is “genetically modified” and has to be. I’m not very fond of that pretty “Indian corn” put on doors at Thanksgiving time. For centuries it was modified by plain hybridization...and now for decades by more precise methods.

So what? It goes into our stomachs and is dissolved, digested or crapped out.... NO IT WON’T HURT YOU!