Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? You Decide by Laura Ticciati

By Laura Ticciati

Examines the influence of this very likely harmful expertise on foodstuff assets, animals, and our personal our bodies.

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The Guardian,29 a large British newspaper, observes that ''the New York attorney general's office forced Monsanto to withdraw advertisements claiming that Roundup is biode-gradable and environmentally friendly. '' If Roundup has missed the mark of environmental friendliness, a policy of forcing farmers to use it can hardly qualify as environmentally friendly. CLAIM: Genetically engineered foods are just like natural foods. FACT: People have been eating natural foods for a long, long time. Indeed, nature's foods have been the basis for the emergence and evolution of the human race.

In principle, they make the same data about nature's activities available to anyone, anywhere, at any time. To gain reliable, replicable, objectively-based knowledge, science gathers information about natural law through mechanical apparatus which can amplify the subtle activities of nature to the point where the crudest level of the senses can tell what is happening. ("You looked flushed. Do you have a temperature? ") To keep further subjectivity at bay, science also tries to formulate its explanations in standardized language like mathematics.

Nature is the behavioral value of natural law, so when Nature designs a food, it does so purposefully, gracefully, fully informed by complete knowledge. The government says genetically engineered foods are just like those that nature makes, and the biotech industry has invested huge amounts of money to promote them as natural. But actually the biotech industry intentionally crosses boundaries set in place by nature. An insect would never naturally share its DNA with a potato. 2009 11:36:54] page_51 robin-bobin < previous page page_51 next page > Page 51 with tomatoes.

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