Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Death By Frankenfish?

How long is the list of things that could go wrong if our food is genetically engineered?  And that's not counting what would happen if terrorists or a government agency with bad intentions got involved!

It looks like we'll soon find out in a couple of days when the FDA allows our food supply to be contaminated by genetically modified salmon.  After this, it will simply be a matter of time before everything we eat -- be it a carnivore's diet or a strict vegan one -- will be engineered.  We could have things as innocent as accidentally triggering allergic reactions to something as insidious as turning our food into a mind-numbing drug or a toxin designed to wipe out entire populations with certain inherited traits.

I pray that sane minds prevail and force the FDA to steer away from tinkering with our food in this way, though I'm not very hopeful.

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