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Pastimes : Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wade who wrote (49)	8/9/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103

Great--glad you guys liked it. I'd not have seen it if I hadn't asked for the two issue printed trial. I've got here the 7/24 issue of the Economist. There is a letter to the editor from Peter Melchett-- Executive Director Greenpeace UK. Mr. Melchett writes... "...A recent poll carried out for Greenpeace found that 74% of the British public would be concerned if organic food was contaminated by GM crops. The government admits that this is inevitable if GM crops are grown on trial or commercially. To preserve the right to choose locally grown organic food, all GM crop plantings in Britain need to be halted now." It so happens that today I put more food labeled 'organic' in my grocery cart than I ever have before. This had something to do with having seen on ultrasound a three month old fetus in my wife's belly earlier this morning. {:-O} I'd probably like to have her living on a Neo Luddite commune eating lots of green leafy organic veggies and fruits these next six months. Would also like to get her away from the lungfulls of CO at the bus stop... I do know that I'd buy GM food that was otherwise organically grown before I would choose food grown with traditional pesticides and herbicides--but I suspect that a diet without alcohol, refined sugar, and one limiting a lot of processed foods is probably good enough.