Genetically modified foods. How are they bad?

[SarahD]

I guess it's natural to be suspicious of anything that has the Frankenstein Factor attached to it, but GMO grains have been vetted pretty well. I guess I could go to the Greenpeace website to see what there problem is.
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[mahina]

1. I wouldn't say they're bad or good but one thing that's true

Is that some of them are designed to be resistant to specific pesticides that I would prefer not to eat. I am no expert on the topic, but I do recall that a bunch of chemicals are only legal in this country, not in Japan or Europe, and we eat a lot of them.

Being anti-gmo across the board doesn’t make any sense to me. Anybody who’s ever done? Anyone gardening in Hawaii would probably appreciate gmo papayas that don’t get the icky virus Whose name I cannot remember at the moment.

[Warpy]

2. Our bodies can't tell the difference, but that'snot the problem

The problem comes in the developing world that have a mixture of big farms run by rich landowners and small farms on marginal land owned or rented by subsistence farmers.

The big guys use the GMO seed because the crop yields are greater. They buy seed every year because those big yields produce sterile seed, Monsanto's way of protecting their intellectual property. No problem, the big guys can afford it. The small farmers need to save seed from one crop to plant the next.

The problem is that the pollen from the big GMO fields drifts over to the small farmer's field. That reduces the amount of his saved seed that will grow the following year. Even products advertised as "non GMO" have failed testing becuse the fields have been contaminated by GMO pollen which produced sterile seed for them, too.

I think we can all see the problem here. There is also nothing we can do about it, not yet.