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tq Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 8:46 AM

Wait a minute! I was under the impression that people had the flu because of a virus. And now I find out that the pesky Spanish Flu of 1919 that killed millions worldwide was caused by GMO which weren't invented yet? Or ... were ... they? Perhaps, just perhaps, that evil giant Mansanto has also invented the time machine and has secretly transported its seed back to 1900 or earlier so as to pollute the food stream. Those evil geniuses. Mwahahaha!! I probably goes back even farther. The smallpox epidemic that killed Native Americans. The bubonic plague! Monsanto = evil. Probably run by Cheney!

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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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