|
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 - 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.
| In
case you think this is a bit far fetched, this may have already happened.
Thirty seven people in America died and over a thousand got sick because
they ate a , made using GE bacteria. This food was thought to
be to the normal one. People are still arguing over what
happened exactly. Some say it was because of genetic engineering and
others say it was not. |
 |
|

|
|
 |
| home |
|
back
to 'What is wrong with genetic engineering?' |
|
forward
to 'What the companies are making now' |
|