Genetically engineered food

Here's an interesting article about "Frankenstein" engineered food.

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AS we eat our chips, hamburgers and milkshakes for lunch today, let's put the debate about genetically modified food into perspective. We eat food laden in fats and preservatives largely without debate or complaint. Yet the prospect of producing GM foods that could be drought resistant, grown without being heavily treated with pesticide and made more nutritious has caused a huge outcry.

I've never quite understood the public outcry over GEF. Even before this technology the tomato's, corn, and wheat we ate was no where near the food produced 100 years ago.

Plants and seed have been routinely bred to ward off the ill effects of climate and pest; there just has never been an ability to make the dramatic changes in the plant DNA we have today.

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