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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