Monday, March 5, 2012

GMOs

There are so many things wrong with Rep. Miller's campaign to be the first in the nation to require labeling of GMOs.  For example, he states that GMOs are not God's work, as though anything done solely as a result of nature should be acceptable, whereas acts of man are not.  Why didn't he believe that beavers could be adapted to Viney  Brook Preserve?  He had them trapped and drowned, their furs sold.  Weren't they just God's creature doing what nature intended them to do?  His outrage with corporations that are trying to improve the world's supply of food through genetic engineering, creating disease resistant foods or insect resistant crops, rings hollow when we know his actions in the past have been anti-nature.  And what constitutes GMOs?  Is selective breeding not   a process resulting in GMOs?  What are we supposed to do?  Eat only heirloom fruits and vegetables?  And what about the cross fertilization that happens naturally?  Is that somehow not a GMOS result? Isn't evolution itself the process of ongoing genetic modification?  What should be put on these labels?  Any product sold today is likely to be the result of some hybridization or modification of an original food source.  This is nonsense.

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