Hey peeps,
Please take a mo' and read this quick article from cnn.com.
It goes further in the Telegraph...
I'm glad someone has some sense! I seriously cannot fathom how people think GM crops are a good idea. Reading the comments, in the Telegraph in particular, it's shocking to see how deeply people disagree on this issue. It's easy to discount an "out of touch monarch" in his royal bubble but he's not the only person speaking against Genetically Modified crops - he's just more high profile so he can be heard!
Quite frankly, I'm scared of what we're doing to this planet. GM crops are not the way to go, companies like Monsanto, companies that on one end produce most organic fruits and veg you can buy in Whole Foods and on the other end are the frontlines of GM crop production are becoming the only food option. Conscientious consumers, trying to be healthy, save the environment and eat organically are unwittingly funding and encouraging GM crop production. It's messed up. Small time farmers are going under one after another, heirloom crops are being wiped out, and the more we play god and mess with nature the more we risk everything.
Ugh.
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Corn is evil. All corn. Evil. The downfall of man.
Ah, but you're forgetting a small portion of the corn population, Leslie: that summer delight known as sweet corn. Ohhh. I just love it. I think the problem isn't all corn, but this statistic, which I came across when reading last month's Gourmet: "Of the more than 94 million acres of corn planted in the United States last year, less than 1 percent was devoted to sweet corn for eating. The remainder was field corn, used for livestock feed, ethanol production, and food products such as high-fructose corn syrup."
Yikes.
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