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sulphurdunn

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8. There are far more serious issues
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 06:28 PM
Oct 2012

here than a semantic debate over whether or not all foods are natural because they are organic. For instance, GM seed patents confer increasingly potent political and economic power into the hands of agribusiness. Cross politicization by GM crops opens farmers to legal actions for patent infringement. Sterile seed technology, designer pesticides and herbicides designed to increase GM crop yields may rapidly accelerates the rate of adaptation by disease organisms and pests. Increasingly, they raise concerns over increasing the possibility of certain cancers in humans. I don't know whether or not these issues should raise too much agricultural, biological or medical concern, but they certainly should raise political ones. Increasingly, countries are seeking to ban GM crops. Whether they should or not is debatable. That I should be able to know how the food I purchase was produced is not. Whether or not that determination is made by independent or captured government agencies should be of great concern.

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