letsfussaboutfood.com » genetic engineering http://letsfussaboutfood.com/Blog Organic, fats, proteins... confused? Allow me to help sort it all out! Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:39:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Genetic engineering of food? http://letsfussaboutfood.com/Blog/2009/06/genetic-engineering-of-food/ http://letsfussaboutfood.com/Blog/2009/06/genetic-engineering-of-food/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:44:33 +0000 Joanna Lynn http://letsfussaboutfood.com/Blog/?p=4 The genetic engineering of food was originally well intentioned but is still relatively “new”.  Some of us suffer no shortage of food while others starve.  Pesticides,  herbicides,  polluted soil,  floods,  droughts,  famine, and malnutrition occur on a global level and concern us all.  Genetically modified foods were meant to address those issues.  “New” to me tends to mean untested, unknown long term effects,  and please advance with caution.  I don’t know that I am particularly comfortable with the idea of us altering the genetic make-up of plants and animals.

Many of us seem to understand organic to mean vegetarian.  In fact,  organic is the process by which food is grown,  harvested, and raised. The lack of polluted soil,  antibiotics, and pesticides are at issue whether organic chicken, tomato, or sugar.

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