U.S government wants imported food to have same health standards U.S food does

[the2real4mafol]

Kasz216 said:

the2real4mafol said:

And i'm sure what Monsanto did to wheat can't be good when there have been no proper tests on GM food.

Also, there have been tests on GMO foods.  They just generally don't show anything wrong outside a few studies that didn't really hold up to rigorus scrutiny. Which is sort of the problem with these sort of things.  You never here about the 100 stories where everythings great, just the 1 story where something maybe is't so great. 

 

Why would they show anything wrong?  You are genetically altering the food to be like antoher completely edible food.

The biggest risks lie largely just in allergines.

The only reasonable reason to be against GMO's right now is because of the US's (and maybe europe?   I dunno) silly application of patents relating to GMOs.  Which really DOES need to change.

 

Genetically modifying foods is actually a tradition that goes back.... centuries.  The only thing that's changed is the way we do it.  Instead fo waiting seasons for crossbreeding to take effect.  We do it in a lab... and we actually test it... which wasn't the case for crossbreeding.

 

In the future GMO's will be used (hopefully) to make healthier nutritous foods.

http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/gmo_foods.htm

There's only so much that can go wrong with cross-breeding seeds, but because now we can do it in labs and add any manmade chemicals in it. It can be more dangerous. And because a giant corporation is doing it, i can't even trust GM foods. They cut corners where ever they can, including how safe the food may be. They don't care as long as they make their profit and sales targets. I may be abit cautious on these GM foods and new technology, but i would rather keep to what's tried and tested when it comes to food. A lot of it is fine as it is.