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[paleotn]

109. maybe yes, maybe no...

... GMOs still have many potentially negative aspects and research into long term affects is ongoing.

What I have the most problem with, are unintended consequences of rapidly marketed GMOs. My worry is the difficulty in predicting potentially negative outcomes once one inserts a foreign piece of genetic material into a plant cell's genome. The fact of the matter is, we're still learning to crawl when it comes to really and fully understanding how specific and combinations of alleles express certain traits in any genome, much less food crops. That said, until we know far better what in the hell we're doing in corn's genome, other than the fact that "gee whiz! OUR corn can now withstand glyphosate! Lets sell this puppy and make billions!", maybe we shouldn't have people eating it just yet.

Now, as to those corporations who patent and sell GM seed destroying of 10K years worth of cultural seed saving and food crop biodiversity in order to make a quick buck, that's reason enough to tell Monsanto, Dupont, Pioneer, Bayer, et. al. to take their patented seeds and shove them up their collective arses. Or lets just limit ourselves to those few patented cultivars given to us by our corporate miracle workers and hope for the best. Anyone for the Irish Potato famine writ large?