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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by charles brough

What bothers me about all this is that the agricultural interests provide the funds for a lot of the research. Of course, we are not experts in this and it is not possible at least for me to know really what is going on with our food, but I do read a lot and have good reason to suspect that rat and mice research, as PAMELA mentioned, shows a different picture than the special-interest funded government used research tells us.

The entire problem suffers from an obvious lack of independent research. both sides have gone out of their way to pump sunshine up the skirts of anyone who will listen.

I know there is no reason what so ever to expect a GM modified food to hurt you in any way as long as it wasn't GM modified to product some type of noxious chemical.

The potatoes in this study were indeed GM'ed to produce such chemicals. to do this is so stupid I wonder why anyone would even consider producing food with this type of modification.

On the other side you have food that has been modified to produce things that are good for us, IE golden rice or corn with complete proteins or meat high in Omega 3 fatty acids.

Of course it might be found that GM does indeed cause some weird effect that makes any and all GM crops a bad idea but if you think about it the idea of Gm being bad all the time makes no real sense unless the modifications intent was cause problems.

Even regular cross breeding can in rare instances produce problems. As far as i know (and I readily admit to my knowledge being limited) no really independent study has shown that the process of GM causes any inherent problems with the food it produces.

Despite the most expensive medical system on Earth, we are far from the healthiest of people.

While this is true we are also no where near the unhealthiest either. In fact we are far healthier than we were a century ago, people live much longer healthier lives today that ever before in the history of mankind. Your statement is nothing but a obfuscation of facts and unnecessarily misleading.