Stop GMOing Our Food
Stop making genetically modified food available for consumption until at the very least there are legitimate testing done on humans.
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What you want is to prohibit the availabilty of genetic engineered food. In general I agree. But not in all cases long-term testing with humans is necessary. For example if only the number of the genes from one organism is changed, a gene promotor in a known genetic pathway or so on - than short time testing with animals is the adequate way. Toxic effects can be ruled out in many cases. This is not the case after transforming a organism with the genes of another species, here human-studies should be the norm.
But also if there are no toxic effects, there can be effects on the environment, too. Tho avoid this damage studies are necessary: better, more and other studies than those funded by the genetic engineering industry.
I said in gerally I would agree your opinion. But in one go i would encourage the scientific reasearch in this field with financial help and governmental influence. The present situation is that capitalistic monopolists lead the industry. Whoever have the presure to sell a product cannot wait and study everything that might become a problem in future. The sozial impact is more worse than the toxical and economical effects together, I believe. Genetic engineering should not be in the hands of one or few profit-seeking companies.
Says a ecology/botanic and genetic student.
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Supplemental: The best note to genetic engineering I ever heard was "the researches of today are the solution approach of tomorrow". It seems to be necessary to maintain better food organisms to feed th 10 billion people in 2050. But if the density of humans would not be as high as it is, a lot of problems would not stand. That means it is more a political problem, the science cannot solve it, only reduce the effects.
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