GM Foods - Could the Debate Get Any Louder?

It is absolutely amazing the animosity over GM crops, and it is incredible the level of conspiratorial debris out there online, as the coordinator for a think tank which happens to operate online, I am blown away by it all, literally. In fact, I should by a wind farm to harvest all this genetically modified hot air some day.

The other day, I was discussing Genetically Modified foods with an acquaintance, Mark is a seed specialist, and futurist thinker with many innovations, he stated that;

"GM foods are a complicated issue, they offer many solutions to modern day problems but they also come with their own complications. Growing a high yield crop of corn that can survive the harsh environment is undoubtedly progress. The downside to GM foods is that they can pass their modified genes on to the local plant varieties, given enough time the effects of this could be detrimental to the local ecosystem as a whole. With proper planning and segregation of these crops the idea could still work."

Well, it is an issue, terminator seeds do prevent some of this, but there are issues and a case study with sunflower seeds in the wild causing havoc. However, genetically modified crops can very much help us with things like the Ug99 fungus and such issues as producing drought resistant crops, just as soil bacteria root research is immensely wise. I mostly worry about crop species variations, and inadvertently reducing down to one type of rice, corn, wheat, or soybean. Diversification is important, and very wise, which is why I like projects such as the millennium seed vault idea - just in case.

Now then, what about, and Mark and I talked about this also, the challenges in certain regions where they've obviously out-populated their food resources? We need to have a way for those regions with abundant food production to assist, that makes sense. Still, with the challenge of let's say starving Africans, Haitians, or Indians - the procreation rates are too high, and as we feed more people or "give" them more food, they continue to up-step their procreation rates.

What can we do to fix this problem, on that our very giving of food to feed the poor is currently exacerbating said problem?

I believe people should be able to choose if they wish to eat genetically modified crops in this case, as they can either take the free food and aid, or die of starvation, but there is a catch, if you take the food, that food aid will be fortified with supplements slowing down the chances or percentage of reproduction, thus, reducing the number of off-springs so that you do not exacerbate the problem by creating an environment where healthy humans have nothing better to do but reproduce because we made it possible by feeding them in the first place.

Many believe that procreation is a human right. Okay, sure one can say that, and I would submit to you that they have the choice, it just comes with serious ramifications, if you decide to take free food. This is such a contentious and heated argument, that I will merely leave you with this thought, and let you decide. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net

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Things to Consider About GM Foods

Commercial GM plants include viral-resistant papaya and zucchini, and herbicide-resistant crops like corn and soy. GM microbes include an engineered curdling agent for vegetarian cheese to replace rennin. It is an enzyme that comes from the stomachs of cud-chewing animals.

Also known as Frankenfoods, Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Bacteria, yeast, insects, plants, mammals, fish, all can be genetically modified.

Here are a few things to consider about GM foods:

* Most highly processed food products incorporate no less than one or higher genetically revised substances.
* Your selected lunch cereal may be yet another object which has GMOs.
* Milk of cows who have been injected with GM hormone.
* Meats of animals who have taken GMO diet.
* Foodstuff ingredients, digestive support enzymes, flavorings, along with control providers, such as sweetener aspartame along with rennet employed to create challenging cheeses.
* Flaxseed gas along with plant natural skin oils.
* Honies along with bee pollen that will get GM options for pollen.
* Non-food goods that may possibly incorporate GM substances such as cosmetic makeup products, scrub, bubble bath tub, dramas along with liquids. Prescription firms deploy Aspartame in most laxatives, products along with children's supplements.

Problems Involving GM Food

Surveys have discovered several health hazards due to GM modified crops. Such foods affect liver, kidney, adrenal, spleen along with body cellular material. Such foods may be the cause of infertility, immune system troubles, more rapid growing older, wrong insulin legislations, autism, osteo-arthritis, greater foodstuff hypersensitivity, along with alterations throughout significant areas plus the gastrointestinal technique. Young children, newborns and the expectant women may be particularly affected by GM foodstuff.

Only GM foods on the market for now are plants and microbes. Commercial GM plants include viral-resistant papaya and zucchini, and herbicide-resistant crops like corn and soy. GM microbes include an engineered curdling agent for vegetarian cheese to replace rennin. It is an enzyme that comes from the stomachs of cud-chewing animals.

There are pest-resistant crops that have been modified with bits of bacteria-derived DNA. It makes proteins that are fatal to major crop pests, but is non-toxic to mammals. Major crops like soy and corn are genetically altered to withstand a specific type of herbicide that exterminates the weeds while leaving the crops.

Consumers are worried about the presence of toxins in the foods as well as the environmental impact. To remove the fear, the only thing that can be done is to move GE foods through stringent regulatory framework, which is not required by conventional crops. However, the federal Government in the US has framed no regulation regarding GM crops although some states have come up with their own laws.

For the fear of toxicity and allergies, there are consumers who want to know if the foodstuff they are eating has been genetically modified. They want labels on the food products that have GM ingredients. However, any national regulation in the US is still a far-fetched thing.

One of the solutions is to ensure intake of GMO low products. There are suppliers that provide food stuff made of natural ingredients. They make sure that the stuff offered by them is top class and take any stuff that is required to ensure it. You will be better off buying things from such suppliers.

Author of this article is associated with Acton Store, known for providing vitamins, grocery, drinks, bodycare and natural home products of the highest quality.

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