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Originally posted by popo
Just so people realize this, humans have been eating genetically modified foods for centuries if not millenia. Cross-breading of plants is not a new idea, it just hasn't been called "genetic modification" until recently.
When breading plants, farmers have forever tried to select for genes that promoted bigger, tastier, more resistant fruit & vegetables, even though they weren't aware that they were playing with the genes.
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Riight. BUT untill recently this messing with genes involved take two seperate strains of tomato plants and cross breeding them. Not genetically take genes from fish eggs and adding them to tomatos. I personally voted research. The truth of the matter is we really don't know the effects of GM foods on humans. I am not saying GM food is bad we just don't know right now. Well someone knows I am sure. I am sure del monte (or whoever) has spent millions of dollars on research. Most of which I have not seen. And I am sure anything I see will be biased (even if they are mostly good. There are down sides to everything) I dunno. I just for see in 40 years us having "truth" comercials about GM food and what they didn't tell as in the 1990s about them or whatever.
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