The risks that GMO's pose are very serious, I'm surprised this information isn't very wide-spread. That's only half of it, too, basically these companies who created the WTO have one goal, which is of course, profits. Create jobs for & feed the third world my ass. They're enslaving them, if anything.
Many seeds that are shipped to India, China, Central America, and the MidEast by the fatcats of agriculture, such as Monsanto (may they burn in Hell), have a "terminator" gene implanted in them. This basically means that after one season, the crop dies off. This keeps farmers in other countries completely dependant on the supplier (Monsanto), because after one season, they have to buy more seeds if they want to remain competitive in the market.
Even more serious, these crops with the self-termination gene can contaminate other crops. Suddenly, natural crops won't produce seeds anymore because of this contamination.
They've put human genes in pigs, to make them grow faster, and larger, which resulted in gross mutations of muscle structure. I've seen the pictures- these pigs were bulky as hell, yet couldn't even stand up.
I've forgotten what kind of gene they put in Salmon/Bass, but basically it made them grow about 6 times larger than in nature, but the drawback was that these fish were very aggressive and stupid as hell. Even worse, thousands of these fish escape every year and find their way back to their natural habitat--now we have fish that don't know how to spawn contaminating the natural species, which could prove to be a very serious form of biopollution.
The idea of genetic engineering is that, since modifying the technology to compliment nature is too inefficient, we can modify nature to fit the technology. What they fail to remember as their ambitions cloud their conscience, is that nature is already perfect, and should be left to evolve in it's own natural way. This forced evolution through genetic engineering can only result in disaster over time. \"Are we justified in using articles, no matter how convenient it may be for us to use them, that we know were produced in conditions which bored and even stultified the human beings who had to make them?\"
-John Seymour |