For safety's sake, slow down!

Why the rush? The companies say they want to feed all the world's starving people. I wish I believed that. Few companies want to give money away - which is what they'd have to do to feed the starving. Hungry people have no money to buy food or land to grow it on. That is why they're hungry. Not because there isn't enough food. I think the companies are in a hurry because they want to make money fast. And like a lot of people, I think this is very dangerous because the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they are already growing (especially, you American kids, in the USA) and getting us to eat have simply not been tested properly. If they could all agree to slow down while proper tests go ahead, everyone would be much happier.

It's the same stuff! Or is it?
The big seed companies like to say that their GMO seeds and foods are 'substantially equivalent' - meaning more or less the same as ordinary seeds. A soy bean seed or tomato looks the same whether it's genetically modified or it isn't. They taste the same. They smell the same. So they are the same (almost), say the companies. So there's no need to test them. Critics say this is a lie. If a plant's genes have been altered by GE, that is to make the plant make or do something different. So it is different, and it may have effects that no-one can know about until people start to get ill and even die.

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