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Consumers' view of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) based food continues to be influenced by media and by movies as food that grows in test tubes and form legs to attack humans (see http://www.biofortified.org/2011/08/vote-for-talking-not-fighting/). Science and fact-based information to address consumers' GMO concerns never seems to gain traction. Can farmers/ranchers respond to remove fears about GMO-based foods? Should market forces be the judge on the real success or failure of GMO products?
Author: Sharon
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But has the scientific community really established that GMO is harmless, and should the fears be removed? How do we know what the long-term effects of GMO ingredients really mean for unborn generations?
"Science and fact-based information to address consumers' GMO concerns never seems to gain traction. "
Maybe because it tends to be falsified?
Of the research studies on GMO crops which have been truly independent, which is to say not initiated or subsidized by the GMO industry, most have found the ingestion of GMO crops to be harmful to both humans and animals, and NONE have proven that GMOs of any kind are harmless. This is why growing GMO crops have been banned in most of Europe and a growing number of other countries around the world, and why I believe that their use should be banned in the United States as well.
Monsanto, the holder of over 90% of the GMO patents in the world, specializes after all in making deadly poisons (Agent Orange, Round-Up, etc.) From the repeated reports of their toxicity, GMO seeds seem to be nothing more than another link in this chain.
Since most of the science- and fact-based information coming out about GMOs shows that their ingestion by humans and animals causes both short- and long-term harm, which is often irreparable, is there any real wonder why "addressing consumers' GMO concerns" gains no traction?
GMO crops have been banned in most of Europe, and a growing number of other countries, for good reason, which is indeed based upon sound science and fact-based studies NOT paid for by the GMO industry, unlike in the United States.
I think the state of the human condition should be the judgement used to determine whether or not GMO products are a success or failure. Farmers/Ranchers are not at liberty to speak to consumer fears. They probably have the same fears resonating through their hearts as they stand powerless while corporations/gov't force GMOs onto their farms/ranches. In cooperation with the aforementioned companies the media is a vehicle used to misdirect the consumers. Unfortunately to the average consumer, media is the only window into "reality" when it comes to everything even our food system. Regardless of how the "truth" is depicted in media we now realize that it is the consumer's responsibility to do research and demand that the companies and the government that furnishes and regulates the products they consume respectively provide them with the truth! We all have a #right2eat