We grow most of our own veggies, I purchase a lot of organic meat. The idea of genetically modifying plants with animal DNA is atrocious and this all in the name or corporate success. Please world wake up, fight back.

I'm with Yesca (Oct 2). The scientifically---and to a large extent historically--- illiterate in this hemisphere have intentionally enshrined the most evil bunch of Corporate barons the world has ever seen. These incurious cretins who enable and abet their Corporate Masters deserve way more financial ruin than they are getting. The religious evangelical drones need a lot of Biblically proportioned suffering, too, for their theocratic salting in politics. Science is the only way out but it seems to have been auctioned to the Corporatocracy for good. Shame on the average American citizen for consistently destroying We The People. May their sick empire descend on their empty heads, FAST.

Here is a kicker, genetically modified foods....aka.....genetically modified viruses to create threads to make plastics, then we store foods in those plastics and microwave in them, and ALL VIRUSES ...ALWAYS....MUTATE so we now have a virus that creates plastics, that has entered our bodies, and are creating plastic fibers INSIDE of our bodies...that the patients can feel crawling....inside of them....
This illness is called MORGELLIANS disease......IT WAS IN THE NEWS THAT PEOPLE IN DENTON TEXAS COULD ACTUALLY FEEL THE FIBERS GROWING INSIDE OF THEIR BODIES...AND SORES WOULD HAVE THOSE WHITE OR GREEN FIBERS STICKING OUT THAT COULD BE PULLED OUT WITH TWEEZERS.
Just think of the rest of the body where you could not get to them,

Recall that the proficies say in the last days, the animals will attack the people, well they didn't say what kinds of animals....

Also the seed bank that was NATIONALLY....OWNED BY THE WHOLE COUNTRY, was GIVEN to those GENETIC ENGINEERS, not even sold, but why?
TO DESTROY OUR POPULATIONS THAT ARE NOT WANTED,...WITH FOODS THAT EAT HOLES IN THE INTESTINES, SHRINK THE BALL SACKS IN ANIMALS AND THEN HUMANS, CREATE DEFORMITIES IN OFFSPRINGS, AND THEN LATER STERILIZATIONS, SO THERE WON'T BE REPRODUCTIONS OF SPECIFIC GENETIC LINES.

This post is for anyone who thinks that Mendel's laws, as applied to plant hybridization, and the extreme genetic manipulation of GMO technology are comparable. There is a marked difference between selectively breeding plants to cultivate new strains from existing ones... and splicing the gene of an Atlantic cod into the cell of a tomato plant to enable it to withstand colder climates. In the case of the GMO salmon soon to be unleashed upon the earth, the genetic material of a fish that a salmon could not breed with in nature is injected into the Atlantic salmon DNA to allow the resulting mutant fish to grow year-round. Transgenic crops have been proven to be harmful to insect life, not to mention are completely unnaturally occurring mutations that cross not only species, but genera as well. Genetically modified potatoes have been shown to cause organ damage and pre-cancerous cell growth in rats (but the scientist who accidentally discovered that got fired from his job rather than rewarded). Maybe some people don't really understand exactly what GMO technology actually is, but they should. I believe people would reject the technology if they understood that it's about profit and control of food production, not feeding the world cheaply and healthily. GMO companies know this, and that's why they spend so much lobbying to keep industry watchdogs more than off their backs. The very organizations we have established to protect what we consume are actually on their side (read bought off). As we have proven already, it doesn't take long to wreck an ecosystem as small and fragile as a planet. GMO proliferation is but one more nail, among many, in humanity's coffin, if we allow it to continue. Don't eat GMO foods. Join a food COOP. Eat organic food, and educate yourself.

@ new: it's necessary to have an understanding of the science behind crop modification to make a statement about "what we already eat". Food modification has indeed been practiced for centuries, in the form of selective breeding which involves reseeding or rebreeding only the specimens that tend toward or achieve your optimum. There is an enormous difference between selective breeding and genetic modification which involves inserting genes from other species and sometimes even as different as being from a different biological kingdom. It is possible to insert a gene that prevents freezing from an entirely different type of organism into another, arbitrarily through genetic modification. This can in fact have unintended consequences, such as making a food more allergenic to humans, making it distasteful to it's normal pollenators, or even, as mentioned above, creating an organism with elevated levels of tryptophan which can cause death and disability for some people. This characteristic was not discovered for twenty years, as also mentioned. The problem with genetic modification is that a gene for a specific characteristic in fact rarely occurs solo, with no other characteristics related to that gene, and so you end up often with, say, a gene that gives your potato increased resistance to a fungus also carrying a characteristic for increased levels of a chemical that has toxic effects. As stated above "...attorney Steven Druker in 1999 obtained 40,000 pages of FDA files containing 'memorandum after memorandum warning about the hazards of (GE) food,' including the likelihood that they contained, 'toxins, carcinogens or allergens' ".

I have heard statements that investigators are somehow motivated by some kind of ulterior motives, that they are glory-seeking soapboxers or such: I find such claims laughable at the very least, since generally what they can expect for their trouble is harassment and even loss of employment. It takes courage and determination to do that work, and there's no "vested interest" possible in it, other than an altruistic desire to protect the health of the consumer. Manufacturers, however, have an enormous vested interest in representing their product as harmless, and as well in producing it with either the least expense, or with methods that will profit them additionally (such as producing seed for a crop designed to be used with their pesticides or herbicides, and no other). Agribusiness is a dirty game.

In the UK some years back, a government biologist experimented with GM potatoes, feeding them to one group of rats, while feeding another control group non-GM potatoes. His studies showed that the rats fed on a diet of GM potatoes developed immune deficiencies. He published a paper on this, and was dismissed from his position for his trouble, but the cat was out of the bag, other research followed overseas, and the anti-GMO forces gathered strength in Europe. In America, where most research is now funded by the very corporations who have a vested interest in approval, a much tighter lid has been kept on research into the unintended consequences of genetically modifying foods, and corporate ownership of most major media assures that research information is not readily available in major media outlets (like, for example, "USA today", or any television network news source) from research done in other countries, unless people know where to look, and are willing to take the time, which few people are, apparently. I believe that stems from first, people not having a lot of free time to do so, and secondly the expectation that the government will protect them. Unfortunately, we must all remain vigilant for our own protection, because greed and corruption we shall always have with us, their being hardwired into human nature. When people get into positions of power, unfortunately, it seems to bring those characteristics to the fore in their behavior.

Concluding, I would say, before making a statement such as you have made, it would behoove you to read the text of the article more closely, and indeed to do some further reading in the subject, so that you're making informed statements, when you make them. There is much necessary background information to be absorbed before one can make anything like an informed statement on this issue, as it is assuredly a complex one. Your own health is at stake, and so I would urge you to undertake that task, if you care about your own well-being.