"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved three
new kinds of genetically engineered (G.E.) foods:
1. alfalfa (which becomes hay)
2. a type of corn grown to produce ethanol
3. sugar beets.
It’s unlikely that these products’ potential benefits could possibly outweigh their potential for harm. But even more unbelievable is that the F.D.A. and the U.S.D.A. will not require any of these products, or foods containing them, to be labeled as genetically engineered, because they don’t want to “suggest or imply” that these foods are “different.”
To be fair, two of the biggest fears about G.E. crops and
animals — their potential to provoke allergic reactions and the transfer to
humans of antibiotic-resistant properties of G.M.O.’s — have not come to pass."
If they don't cause any allergic reactions in anyone, I think they're okay but they should definitely be labeled genetically engineered.
ReplyDeleteWhat if I eat a piece of food that was genectically modified and die! The government could be putting my life on the line and I wouldn't even know it because the government does not want me to know that they poisned my food! Society has the right to know what they are eating and the government should stop being so ignorant of peoples lives when it come to genetically modifing food.
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