The organic industry’s GMO hoax

[ellennelle]

21. well....

first, tho, i'd like to know who funded each and every one of those scientific studies before i go following that congo line.

remember, the tobacco companies funded hundreds and hundreds of such studies. we saw how that turned out, and that's just one example.

people tend to use info that suits them, esp. when the profit motive is in play.

still, it's not clear to me we should ignore the premise behind the resistance to GMOs. we have, for all our existence as a species, co-evolved with whatever substances we consume. the franken-foods we're concocting now not only did not "evolve" in the natural sense (about which we still don't know all the details), but they're often mixtures of totally unrelated and unnatural combinations, such as - oh - resistance to a certain petrol-based chemical pesticide injected into corn.

it's not entirely clear to me the effects would necessarily be observable, at least at the phenotype trait level, for generations to come. we therefore should proceed with great caution, esp. as these seeds can completely invade and infect the planet thru natural pollination, etc.

as for science, as a practitioner, i recognize the limits of the enterprise. the skepticism we apply to our experiments and the conclusions we draw should also be applied to our own endeavors and motives.

that profit thing again; there is so much money at stake here.

the monsanto mindset is pure evil. no getting around that. i want to keep that foot out of my door as much as possible.