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To: epicure who wrote (189147)	5/14/2012 10:57:08 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542989

I think the bigger issue with respect to GMO food is the mating of the GMO plants with "natural" food sources and the unknown biological consequnces that flow from that. "I love the GMO labeling initiative. For the safety of the population, it really should be labeled, since many people are sensitive to GMO foods. It may be fine for the people who can tolerate the GMO foods- I have no idea- and neither does anyone else- because our laws are the way they are (GRAS standard in the Us- generally regarded as safe- while Euro standards look at new foods as having to prove they are safe. In the US we just decided to let our population be the guinea pigs.)"

To: epicure who wrote (189147)	5/14/2012 12:55:56 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542989

Science makes mistakes, but GMO foods aren't evil. The "green revolution" has pretty much reached it's end as far as making farms more productive. If we're going to let the world population continue to grow unchecked, which it seems we're going to do, since there's no move to control it, we'll have to feed all those billions. GMO foods may be all that stand between them and the long predicted Malthusian starvation. en.wikipedia.org "Malthus has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease."