Comments on: Figuring Out What's In Your Food

Consumers Are Left To Wonder Which Genetically-Modified Foods They Might Be Eating

[honestabe8]

RandyNason: I agree totally. I have been a vegetarian for the last 29 or so years, and I wouldn''t eat anything Burger King of McDonalds made. People should watch what they put into themselves.

[skinnyminny2]

RandyNason, well said I agree! And to add, if it''s not natural, don''t eat it. Stop buying packaged and processed foods--turn your back on them. Problem is, many people are probably incapable of this because thy have no idea how to prepare natural foods. They prefer to open a box or package. So, they are stuck unless they change their own behaviors.

[mbamama]

Today, 1 in 3 American children now has allergies, ADHD, asthma or autism. To learn more about the risks that GMOs appear to present to our children, please consider visiting http://www.allergykids.com.

[idnnsg]

ubrew12 says, "chemically, a GMO corn, for example, is going to break down in your stomach into the same chemicals as a non-GMO corn"

That is NOT true. Research has demonstrated that the modified dna of the GMO organisms affects the functionig of your body''s cells for a few days after it is "broken down" and absorbed into your body''s cells! We don''t yet know what affects that has in terms of your physical and mental functioning, but it is absolutely NOT the same as eating real food.

[idnnsg]

RandyNason says, "Maybe it''s about time people took charge of their own health concerns and stopped looking to the government to "authorize" what is safe and what is not."

That''s a nice sentiment, but it misses the entire point of this article: the food corporations, with the help of their government puppets, have conspired to make it VERY difficult for people to know what is in their food, thus making it virtually impossible to determine what is or is not safe to eat. That is so sinister, it''s completely EVIL.

The only way to be sure about what''s in the food you eat is to grow and process your own food on your own property. We can''t all do that!

[honest14]

BEES! I believe GMO is the source of the decline of our BEES! Someone at CBS, please investigate this possibility.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by george2221 at 12:54 AM

Who said anything about "wild type"?

[rudy654-2009]

"They didn''t want it labeled because they were terrified that if it were labeled, nobody would buy it."
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Sounds like the bastaard tobacco industry.

[rudy654-2009]

GMOs threaten crops the world over. Furthermore, we have no way of knowing whether these foods breakdown in our digestive track they way they should or not, because no testing that we know of is being done. However, WE DO KNOW THAT there is corn that cannot be digested by humans and has gotten into our food supply.

Secondly, you can''t put a patent on life. That is plain ridiculous. Yet, if these products cross-pollinate, Monsanto Corp (also in contol of the FDA via Bush), wants a piece of the action or will sue the farmers. Many have already been hurt.

They can take their GMOs and stick them where the sun don''t ever shine. I''m sure they will get a nice glow, though.

[randynason]

Any vegetarian or vegan with an ounce of self respect knows what foods to avoid. They don''t stop at Burger King or buy Cheesy Puffs, either. Maybe it''s about time people took charge of their own health concerns and stopped looking to the government to "authorize" what is safe and what is not.

[ubrew12]

I don''t have a problem with GMO food. It''s character isn''t changed sufficiently to affect us chemically.

My concern about GMO has always been ecological in nature (and hence biological rather than chemical). If, for example, freeze-tolerance is introduced into human-grown strawberries: what keeps that gene from migrating to natural strawberries growing in the same area? And once those natural strawberries have freeze-tolerance, can they dominate species in their ecology and make those species go extinct? This is similar to the phenomena of ''introduced species''. Introduced species are estimated to be responsible for 40% of the species diversity destruction of the last 150 years (the other 60% is habitat destruction). With GMO plants, we''re basically introducing new species into our biosphere.

But, chemically, a GMO corn, for example, is going to break down in your stomach into the same chemicals as a non-GMO corn. So, it really makes no difference to you, and lowers corn-product costs to boot.