Is genetically modified food wrong?

Answer 1

Yes. Because we don't know the long term effects of these foods on humans or other animals, although we have already seen evidence of harm in farm animals. Just ask the Canadian growers of rapeseed (from which we get canola oil), both the natural and modified varieties, about their experiences.
Because once these genetically modified foods are planted and grown, they tend to cross-pollinate the natural varieties, thus we lose the ability to return to the original food if it is discovered that there is a problem with the modified food.
Because these varieties of food are developed by large agro-businesses, whose only concern is with the bottom line, and to heck with whether what they have created is truly beneficial or whether it is actually harmful.

We need to take a lesson from Phaethon, Helios' son, who was unable to control the chariot of the Sun, flew too close to the earth, set it afire and was himself destroyed. When we meddle with nature in such a basic way, we are taking great risks which may harm much more than help and may even contain seeds of our destruction. This lesson, of course, does not apply solely to genetically modified foods.

Answer 2

First, everything in nature has been genetically modified at some point during it's evolution.......so the question for a planet that is now supporting almost 7 billion people, if we can say, grow crops that have a more nutritional profile, what's wrong with that??? And what about hybridization??? We've been doing that to all sorts of fruits and vegetables (and animals, where do you think your Thanksgiving turkey came from???) for generations, with no ill effects.......Genetically modified is just a term that the media got ahold of to scare the crap out of us consumers.......Take the porcine (pigs) species, they have been genetically modified, if you will, to be more lean and have less fat......

Answer 3

The GMOs won't kill people after they've passed their tests, and the first ones are unlikely to make the vast majority noticeably sick, but they are significantly altered from natural foods... they are not natural foods. Food is supposed to be more than just "safe", its function is to nourish us. It has been doing this for millions of years, it has co-evolved with us. It's not okay for them to change it so the new foods "seem much the same, far as we can tell". There are many incredibly ignorant and clueless people on yahoo answers who have no idea about what these foods are. What they do is literally infect (infect = the correct biological terminology which they use themselves) a normal natural plant with genes from another organism using bacteria. They they just wait and see what happens. They do hundreds of these tests and trials, the vast majority of which are failures or disasters, and if any ones look ok, they will take them. A food is not just a glorified multivitamin pill along with calories and fibre, as many of these simple-minded and clueless folks seem to think. You can not just randomly change these things with "shotgun evolution" and expect them to work. Breeding is a completely different process where the genes are coming from the same species. Breeding may make things bigger or smaller, but it does nothing on the scale of what genetic modification does... which often uses DNA from different taxinomic animal kingdoms. For example they might try putting some insect DNA into the DNA of an orange tree. And 99.9% of the time either it wouldn't work at all or nothing good would come of it, but in 0.1% of the time things would appear fine, and might have some superficial "advantage" such as being able to kill off fugii better. Then they would simply do a load of tests to see if it would "pass off" as an orange and the fungii-killing part of it wouldn't do noticeable damage to humans. These new foods are randomly changed at a minute, fundamental level. They are a mix between a food supplement pill and real food. They will crossbreed with the natural varieties. It is crazy to argue this thing is okay, extraordinarily small-minded. Property that is infected with Monsanto material is not a person's own property. People need to be protected from this. They are going to crossbreed and destroy natural foods forever... it's a terrible, terrible thing. While as I stated in the beginning they won't make people noticeably sick, this just means that they will work on a lower, chronic level. A small fraction of people might get small headaches sometimes or feel a little sick, and this would never be found out from the tests. The worst thing is that there will be NO GOING BACK from these things once they get out into the wild. They are self-replicating, they will inflict this damage on the earth forevermore. Natural food will be extinct. The only informed people who are in favour of GM food are the people who could gain billions from it.

Answer 4

YES! genetically modified food is so wrong! its the grosses thing ever!! People can die from it ((I think)) welll actually im just a dumb city gil who knows nothing about genetically modifeid food. But still.... it just sounds so gross !! xoxo

Answer 5

Yes! It's horriable to do that to food! The pain it must go threw! So cruel!

Answer 6

yes we shouldn't be eating anything made by humans we are not PERFECT!

Answer 7

generally yes.
but i still eat it cos it's cheaper... and doesn't have seeds

Answer 8

no, why would it be?