How many times must we tell the government, we don't want GM food?

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People both here and in the EU are against GM food. We do not want to be guinea pigs for the big companies like Monsanto who want to ram their products down our collective throats.

Now their lobbyists are influencing the very government departments that are meant to look after us.

See www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/06/gm-crops-biotech-lobbyists-fsa?CMP=AFCYAH

Under the guise of 'food security' or having to feed the world we are being forced to accept this krap food.

What is not known is how it could affect the body when it is fed this stuff from cradle to grave. A baby's body may not be able assimilate this stuff as well as a grown up.

There is some evidence that after a few years, crop yields drop and in India, where the farmers are tied into having to buy seed every year, instead of keeping some back for planting next year, they are killing themselves as they cannot afford to buy the special pesticides.

All in all I do not want this stuff in my food, either directly or indirectly, via animal feed.

Speak for yourself. Humans have been genetically modifying food (both vegetable and animal) since the dawn of agriculture. I think it's a bit rich of those of us in the west, whose very survival does not depend on a reliably large croping and disease resistant harvest, to campaign against the very advances that may mean survival to others.

Speak for yourself. I try to keep a more open mind about the benefits about genetic modification, especially given the perilous state of food supply in some parts of the world.

With slug on this one.

That has been the problem slug. Those in the East, India in particular, where there are a number of suicides per month of farmers who have been wooed into using GM crops only to find that they find crop yields falling after 2 or 3 seasons. Not only that but they have to spend a fortune on the special weed killers and fertilizers that they have to buy from the GM company.
They have to buy new seed every year because the seeds they grow are not 'fertile' which means they can only sell them, not plant them, as they did before.

Yes we have been modifying plants and animals by cross breeding but this has always been a 'natural' type of modification.

They are not putting fish genes into plants.