Genetically modified crops

[West Ender]

I grow some vegetables and a lot of soft fruit in my small back garden. I also buy, where possible, organic produce in the shops and supermarkets. It used to be much more expensive than the non-organic but, thankfully, the price margin is narrowing. Pesticides and herbicides have probably made life easier for the farmer, in the past, but I don't want to eat weed-killer with my water cress or bug-killer with my broccoli.

When G M crops first hit the headlines I thought it was a good idea for the Third World countries to benefit from them. Now I am torn between the ability to grow previously impossible crops in needy areas and what may be contained in those crops. As a comparitively well-off (compared to the 3rd World) Western woman I have the choice of paying for safer, organic food. Many people cannot afford to choose between safer food or no food at all.

[MargaretR]

GM corn is being fed to cows.
Every steak in UK restaurants is raised on GM feed, says Cabinet minister in charge of farming | Mail Online

"‘US Government figures show that overall pesticide use has increased since GM crops have been grown there, because, as scientists opposed to GM predicted, superweeds and resistant insects have multiplied.’

[accyman]

you know genetically modified food has gone too far when the onions start crying beofre you do