This one time, at band camp, "Jonathan G." <jonathang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If there are problems with GM food, then that's a different issue. It seems > like people that are into organics are against GM foods as a concept, even > though they make food better and more affordable. My main problem with GM food is that you can't prevent cross-contamination. If one farmer goes GM, everyone farming the same basic crop nearby will be forced to accept some level of GM genes creeping into the crop. If the GM crop is sterile, for whatever reason, that can severely and irreparably affect production of people that had nothing to do with it. Even if it's not one of these "terminator" seeds, it can nuke your organic certification. And if you've been carefully selecting seeds from your own crops over generations in order to produce a better (and more affordable) crop, one mindless prat upwind who's been sold on, say, Monsanto's GM corn crop that can survive drenching in Round Up(tm), can ruin decades, possibly generations, of work in a single season. I support a total GM food bad because you can't "opt out". This position is supported by every "GM products found where they shouldn't be" story. Yours, Chris J.