Would YOU buy GM food and would you feed it to your kids?

Question

Why is the government planning to allow the growing of GM crops in the UK when there is very little prospect of acceptance by the buying public and every indication that most shops would refuse to stock them. The (American) promotors say we 'need to be educated'! Well, I for one will not be told by anybody what I must eat. I predict that we will see GM crops burning in the fields if this pointless profit-centered 'science' is foisted on highly sceptical British consumers. Clearly there is a hidden agenda at work - and I bet several very fat 'brown envelopes' are already changing hands!

As a scientist (physicist/electronics eng.) I am only too aware of how little science really knows - and just how easy it is to get things wrong. Thalidomide, Chenoble and Bhopal still haunt the world - but there are many more to concentrate the mind. During my working life I solved many scientific problems - but each solution inevitably produced many more unresolved questions! The only thing GM has proved it that it can be manipulated to make a few people very rich - perhaps to the detriment of the many. For the record I grow most of my own (organic) food - and avoid all processed and adulterated foodstuffs.

Answer 1

ewww i don't want to eat it that's for sure... we need to have a world wide movement of food as food for food... only food... organic shouldn't be a word on food... all food should just be organic... nothing fake... nothing added... no products that are not food should be added to food... I'm so sick of this. in the best interest of the worlds health we need all food to be organic food not just expensive food for those that can afford it. i hope your right that the gm food falls flat in Britain and shows the world its not interested in fake processed mutated food.

Answer 2

Yes, and yes.

Give me an example of how genetically modified crops or food have caused harm?

Now go and do some research on what you are actually putting in your mouth now.

I will guarantee you are putting yourself more at risk by the additives and preservatives and colourings you consume in a week than if you ate nothing but genetically modified food for a month or even a year. That is not even addressing the level of chemical residue you are getting from pesticide contamination.

These additives are actually linked to many diseases and disorders and still they are in our food. MSG and aspartane come immediately to mind, along with several food colourings.

Starting a campaign to stop that would, in the long run, do more to save our health than stopping genetic modifications which among other things can stop the need for pesticides by producing naturally immune plants and in some cases give people with diseases such as cystic fibrosis the enzymes they need to lead a normal life as well as going a long way to helping solve world hunger by producing drought and disease resistant crops suitable for 3rd world countries.

Answer 3

I practice an organic lifestyle and I would not eat GM foods. I'll be honest and say it's because of fear.

There is no evidence that GM foods are bad or GM foods are better for you. However, there is no research on the health effect of GM foods. That's where the fear lies. Not enough research.

So my thought is why go with something unproven and instead go with Organic. Organic has been around for thousands of years and only recently during the 1900s did we begin using chemicals and GM in our food supply.

If it isn't broken don't fix it!!!!

If anybody has questions about the Organic Lifestyle, then email me via my profile and I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Answer 4

I agree completely.

The agenda of the New World Order includes taking control o the food supply, and they can do that through GM foods because the seeds do not reproduce.
I thank you for the question, and agree that a 'WAR on GM products' should be waged by the UK public immediately.
The American public is far too dumbed down and terrified to do anything.
I think they should keep their owh shite in their own yard.

Answer 5

I live in the U.S. where all this began and I am HIGHLY opposed to the proliferation of GM foods. Sadly, many of the answers so far reflect a lack of understanding of what GM (or GE) foods actually are. Folks need to understand that this technology goes beyond selective breeding. We are mixing up DNA at the level of genes and chromosomes, e.g. inserting mackerel genes into tomatoes to make them frost-hardy. The technology hasn't been used in food crops long enough for us to predict health outcomes, but other negative outcomes are too numerous to list here. There are social, political, legal and environmental impacts, to name a few. For example, Round-Up Ready corn is resistent to the herbicide, so your sweet corn can be washed with Round-Up. Yum! New Leaf potatoes have the insecticide bT in every cell. Sure they repel potato bugs, but what are those tubers doing to you? GM crops aren't about solving world hunger. They don't increase yields. In fact, farmers in ANY country can no longer even save seeds from their own crops; these crops are all patented.

I could go on and on, but instead I encourage doubters to Google "genetically modified crops" to get a fuller picture. GM foods are not about health or production; they are all about the almighty dollar.

Answer 6

Er yes. Food has been geneticaly modeified through breeding for years. As cynical as I am most things, am a veggie and tree hugger but I've yet to get what the problem with GM food is. What do you think the dangers are as I can't see any myself. I think it's knee jerk reactionary thinking. I would prefer safe food to food that requires chemicals and intense ferterlisers to grow. It appears to be people not very up on science as a whole who have a problem with GM - I see it as an argument from ignorance.

Answer 7

NO and NO.

GM food is another facet of big business, designed to keep the population even more firmly in their grip. Anyone who thinks different is unaware of the depths to which big business is prepared to stoop.

On a practical level, what sensible person would condone the development of plants with "suicide genes" so that they can't be propagated from seed? Another thing - how awful to develop food plants that are resistant to herbicide. So, obviously the food crop gets sprayed with MORE herbicide because they have been designed not to be affected. And then we EAT that. Ha, not me no way.

I am totally with you on this, and I hope these crops do get burned in the fields. And that's without discussing the whole ethics of third world countries and the effect that Monsanto type agribusiness has had/will have on them.

Don't get me started!!!

Answer 8

i would eat it and buy it. its like saying would you eat a carrot? carrots were selectively bred by the dutch to make them orange, originally carrots were white. for centuries grapes have been cross bred to form different flavours for wine. i would rather eat GM food than anything coated in fertilisers and pesticides. genetically modifying food is just a quicker form of selective breeding.

the public disinterest in GM crops is mainly down to people doing what they think people want them to do and just going along with the crowd. do you remember the MMR vaccine being connected to autism? millions of parents put their own children, as well as others in danger. all this occurred because one man got his facts wrong, but parents instead of thinking for themselves and weighing up the arguments, went along with what the papers preached.

To the lady ahead, selective breeding is also the mixing up of DNA also its how we are created in the womb!

Answer 9

I believe that our problem with our health all began with the perseverance's they put in foods started 50 years ago .
Think about it weren't we healthier then ? Oh , I know we live longer now and have lots of new meds and treatments , still they didn't have all the exotic diseases we have today
What kind of chemicals do we eat every day and what do they do to our body's , you know growth hormones , , biochemicals and more of the same .

Answer 10

I would not buy or eat GM food. I am against there even being GM food because accidents will happen and these genes will mix into the wild vegetation and cause huge problems.