Survey: Do You Support Genetically Modified Food?

If you've read and studied the subject of genetically modified foods, then you know that all the talk of feeding starving millions and creating vaccines is whitewashing (or greenwashing) by the companies who profit from genetically modified crops. Many of us who have read extensively and studied the issue of GM crops would say that the claims about the benefits of these crops are nothing short of dishonesty on the part of companies who make billions in profits from GMOs. There are excellent sources that show clearly that the truth is that, despite the hyperbole about all the good that can come from GM crops, the truth is that no GM crops that are being marketed have been developed for greater nutrition or drought resistance or for any other purpose that would benefit people or the environment. GM crops are being marketed for one purpose, and that is to increase the already gigantic profits of the companies that develop GMOs. The truth is that GMOs are dangerous and have banned in many countries. It is no coincidence that they have not been banned here in the United States. I would urge everyone to read and study and become well-informed on this subject--and not to listen to miselading and dishonest claims made by companies who have only PROFITS as their goal. This is truly an important issue that we all need to learn about and understand.

As long as it is regulated and tested rigorously, I think it is a good thing. Sure beats the tar out of starving to death.

I am for it ONLY if it modification is attained by means of the time honored tradition of selective breeding..........NO direct interference with the chemical/genetic makeup.

i DO NOT support GMO foods for the simple reason that it has undergone NO INDEPENDENT TESTING before being put into the food chain. Food coloring goes through months if not years of testing. Gene spliced food, NOTHING.(thank the FDA for that)

Not too mention the numerous societies Monsanto is destroying the world over, as mentioned above.

This food has now been shown to damage the DNA in test animals and yet it is still being put into the food chain. Even scarier is that now most 'normal' food crops the world over have been infested with or replaced by GMO crops. If you thought cancer rates were high the last fifty years, you aint seen nothin yet.

The only thing GMO food can do is resist lots of pesticides(which humans end up ingesting). thats it.

They DO NOT resist drought or provide more viatmins, those are lies (or wishful dreams like clean coal).

The facts are easily findable online to anyone who wants to spend an hour looking for them. Unfortunately, that requires independant thought which western society aint very good at anymore.

In a time where 50% of the food produced worldwide is wasted, destroyed and thrown out, GM is a non-issue.

If we rework this shamefully wasteful system, that alone would eradicate all remaining hunger in the world, period.

Buckminster-Fuller acknowledges famously that any system that produces waste is only a sign of incomplete usage of the resource, even pollution!

As a professor at UCSB via the Independent (Santa Barbara) points out, the "problem of hunger is not one of production, but one of DISTRIBUTION".

We, as people who hardly ever have known hunger, only need to end our ignorance and lack of true empathy and voila, solutions are born overnight.

The GMO row crops that we grow have helped allow us to reduce the volume of costly chemical applications by around 80%, and stop irrigating from an aquifer. Most farmers are skeptics and don't intenionally waste money on expensive seeds unless there is a compelling case from personal experience. There are a lot of drawbacks, but there are some aspects that don't have anything to do with the profitability of Monsanto.

Monsanto and GMO's are businesses and they act like businesses usually act- this messiah complex they are trying to sell is a complete hoax.

Anyone that practices intensive organic poli-cultures and natural soil building knows that the attractive part about GMO's is that they take a lot less work and attention (lazy crops) but yield much less per sqf (not even close).

As Berkmberk said the only "genetic manipulation" I support are the millenia-old techniques of grafting, seed selection and cross-polinization.

When you start mixing Ebola genes with plants, try to patent life for profit and have plants that are not resistant to bugs but toxic to them (and humans?)you have to ask yourself "How natural can these plants be?".