RE: [pf] Risks, imposed or chosen

by Fitzsimmons, Diane

18 December 2000 17:52 UTC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A [mailto:davidnh@visto.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:31 AM
> To: positive-futures@igc.topica.com
> Subject: RE: [pf] Risks, imposed or chosen
> 
> 
> Fitzsimmons, Diane wrote:
> > The force-feeding I was referring to is that *some* 
> > scientists believe GMO-foods will spread their "enhancements" to 
> > other plants via pollination, wind, etc., that someday our food 
> > chain will not be free of what I believe to be a contaminant.  > 
> > Consider it the second-hand smoke of the food world.
> 
> No, that's not a fair comparison. Second-hand smoke is a proven 
> carcinogen. GM foods aren't, unless you have some proof (of 
> which I'd be 
> interested to see).
> 
> David

Now it is a proven carcinogen.  It was also a carcinogen in 1966, when I
first remember sitting in a closed truck cab on a cold day and getting big
lungfuls of a friend's father's cigarette.  Even my 10yo brain thought that
couldn't be good for me. But it took awhile before the public knew the full
story on the dangers of tobacco.

I don't want to wake up in 2020 and find out that GM foods are *surprise* a
contaminent that has caused the degradation of our food supply or physical
problems in those who eat them.

I think the example set by the tobacco industy is precisly why many of us
are cautious about the glories of GM foods.

Diane