Discovery that the
DNA of genetically modified foods are seeping into the 'supply of ordinary crop seeds' doesn't seem to be causing too much of an uproar among scientists or the public. Yet. Much of the intial worry is focusing on how those countries less than supportive of GMO foods-Europe and Japan-will react and how that will affect our agricultural trade.
I would usually be gleeful bearing an 'we told you so' attitude, however this is not the time. I won't predict doom and gloom. I won't even expound on the obvious problems that this implies for the world's food supplies. Though all the talk about how the GMO foods would be safely guraed and kept from the normal food chain is now suspect the wrold over not just the U.S. Ample warnings have been sounded about the difficulty of keeping GMO foods from infiltrating the entire food supply. They weren't heeded at the time and even now the Biotechnical Industry Association is loathe to admit there is a problem. Instead the problem is those who do not wholeheartedly embrace GMO technology. As Lisa Dry, the communications director for BIA says, "Rather than pursue the unrealistic goal of trying to keep seeds completely free of genetic contaminants, . . . the United States should work harder to get European and other nations -- many of which have balked at engineered crops and foods -- to be more accepting of the technology." But of course, it's all the problem of those luddites that can't get down with the new fangled technology and it has nothing to do with the desire not to have our foods be genetically modified for the betterment of corporations bottom line.
My only concern at this point is what happens when the pharmacueticals get their wish and introduce 'plants as medicine.' I am not at all looking forward to having to worry about the possibility of my corn flakes dosing me with prozac or viagra or whatever other great little drug is placed in the nation's food supply at the behest of Pfizer. And i won't even know if the organic label will save me from GMOs.