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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (9561)	4/2/2000 9:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9980

Genetically modified (GM) food poses danger to consumers. ... Genetics engineering could bring lots of profits to biotech companies with patents and boost up the food productivity. But what about the health of the pubilc? This is probably the wrong place for this, but... What demonstrable hazard does genetically modified food produce? Virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified for greater productivity by selective breeding: does a broiler look like a wild chicken? The only difference between selective breeding and modern techniques is that the latter are quicker. Greater productivity does not just benefit big corporations - there are a lot of hungry people in the world that could benefit from, for example, disease-resistant crops. A lot of the opposition to genetic modification is coming from the Luddite wing of the environmental movement, which dreams of sending us back to an agro-utopian society that never existed.