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gmallast Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 9:13 AM

Of course Mr. Stossel is right. One minor point. You cannot plant or eat corn (a.k.a. maize) without planting or eating genetically modified corn because corn exists nowhere in nature. It was developed by South American Indians. It is just the genetic modification was done by selective breeding. Selective breeding has been used by humans to genetically modify plants and animals for thousands of years. Almost everything you eat has been genetically modified. There are very few food plants or domesticated animals which are just the way they were originally retrieved from nature. Probably the most genetically modified critter around is your dog.

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Daddio7 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 7:12 PM

Cross breeding is not genetic manipulation. GMOs are made by inserting foreign genes from another species or even genus into them. Plants can have animal genes inserted. This could never occur in nature. How many years of human ingestion of theses foods will be needed to insure that they are not harmful? Just saying.

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Winkmeister (Formerly David) Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 10:06 AM

I guess we need to eat cockroaches then.

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First, the Bad News

We in the media rarely lie to you.

But that leaves plenty of room to take things wildly out of context.

That's where most big scare stories come from, like recent headlines about GM foods. GM means "genetically modified," which means scientists add genes, altering the plant's DNA, in this case to make the crop resistant to pests.

Last week, Poland joined seven other European countries in banning cultivation of GM foods.

The politicians acted because headlines screamed about how GM foods caused huge tumors in rats. The pictures of the rats are scary. Some have tumors the size of tennis...

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