[driftdiver]

Indeed, just what are the risks of consuming genetically modified foods.

Its not a black and white issue, as something which has been selectively bred is different than something created in a lab.

I’d ask the reverse, why is a grain created in a test tube or an animal raised in a cage no bigger than its body and fed hormones any better than the other choices?

By and large the only difference is in the profit margin to the large global company producing it. Ya know the ones that have put family farmers out of business and made it cheaper to grow cucumbers in South America than Florida.

[count-your-change]

There's a great many reasons for the demise of the family farm but governmental policy is probably the greatest by encouraging over production, setting quotas, jiggering interest rates, they have taken their toll.

Most of the American farmers going to SA to farm cite the cost of land as the chief reason, they simply cannot expand and earn enough from an acre of land to pay it's purchase.
South America has cheap land and welcomes these farmers.

Industrial farming has it's drawbacks but unless we're willing to reduce the population of the U.S. by two thirds the days when the family farm was pop, mom and a big family are gone forever.