All of our "experts" have consistently reassured us for years that this shit is PERFECTLY SAFE. No need to worry about it one bit. Not at all! Whatsoever! Relax! Enjoy! Stop complaining! We live in the "modern" world now. Why argue with "progress"? Especially when it's economic progress. You'd rather go back and live in the "Dark Ages"? You gotta be some kind of right wing-nut if you want to argue with Science.

Other nations won't touch this stuff. It will take years to discover any real negative consequences. Big issue in the science community. . .and when they shake that's when I get a little scared. . .

When you see strawberries, lemons and blueberries the size of a small dogs head in the produce aisle, chances are it is a GMO food.

Just as troubling is the use of high fructose corn syrup as a substitute for sugar in most packaged products, along with aspartame, MSG and gluten, all of which have been implicated in causing diabetes, heart disease, neurological disorders and cancer. And the use of toxic pesticides on produce is just as damaging.

People don't seem to realize that what they eat has a profound effect on their health.

So think twice before you eat something out of a can or package, or pop open a can of diet soda. It can be very damaging to your health.

GMO foods are just the tip of the iceberg. My advice is be a smart consumer.

The food's all poisoned here to make money.

(The 5star rating is based on my belief that the Frankenfood issue is of extreme importance.)

I'm a bit conflicted in terms of where I stand on GMO food itself, but I think it's an issue that is increasing in both import and ignorance thereof...quite a dangerous combination.

In an ideal world (like the one that exists in my brain), technology and genetic modification would be used towards the goal of alleviating famine and world hunger. Although daunting, this is not an impossible goal if tackled by major multi-national corporations.

Unfortunately, the objectives of the major players in this industry are not presently aligned with this humanitarian mission. Further, they have a vested interest in blocking any and all legislation that would enable consumers to make a choice here in the US and have succeeded in doing so up until this point. In avoiding any enforced labeling of GMO products, they neatly prevent the existence of a record that would enable further scrutiny in the future and protect themselves from liability.

Here are a few concerning ways that genetic modification is being used today:

To encourage the increased usage of pesticides and other chemicals
An example of this is Roundup Ready seed sold by Monsanto. Roundup Ready means that this herbicide can be used in quantities far greater than ever before because the crop itself is immune. Many fruits and vegetables have highly permeable skin which absorbs pesticides and other chemicals. An increase in the use of these toxic chemicals means that more of them make it into our systems when we ingest them.

To increase profits of seed producers at the expense of farmers
Historically speaking, farmers have sustained their businesses through reuse of seed from year to year and selling seed amongst each other. Seed producers are starting to block this in a few different ways. The most insidious method is through litigation of farmers and enforced destruction of seed stockpiles that they claim contain "unlicensed patented seed." A judge has ruled that it doesn't matter if this occurred as a result of trade among other farmers, natural cross-pollination or even the wind blowing unsecured seed from a truck as it drives by a farm, corporations have the right to seek damages from farmers if they determine that any percentage of the plants growing on their acreage happen to include the patented genes.

None of this is all that shocking when you consider the legal obligation of corporations to their shareholders...it's not about people, it's about this quarter's profits and today's bottom line, biodiversity and human health be damned. I have the utmost faith in innovation and the advancement of science and technology, but it's discouraging to see it used toward these ends and seemingly devoid of adequate research and oversight.

Fortunately for countries that are taking a more conservative approach, America will provide a more than adequate sample for the both effects of the food itself and the broader agricultural economy.

I heard Joe the Plumber eats genetically modified nails for breakfast.

Just about everything you eat today has been modified from it's natural state. Over the course of centuries, humans have naturally selected mutations and propagated them. The selection has allowed for fantastic human advancement. Scientific modification just speeds up nature, and nothing is wrong with it. I suppose the druidic pantheists who populated the fringe lobby against this procedure would as soon see mass starvation or privation.

I'm still waiting for my broccoli that tastes like chocolate. Get on it already! After that make some Wooly Mammoths. We've got plenty of DNA and you can use an elephant as a birth mother.

As long as nobody dies from it and we know all the effects I don't see the issue here.

Besides the fact that groups like greenpeace have kept billions of tons of genetically enhanced food from reaching starving africans and indians by convincing the leaders of these countries that genetically enhanced food was dangerous and even poisonous, this is not much of an issue. If youre against genetic enhancement then you are against horticulture as a whole. Selective breeding and genetic enhancement are the exact same thing. You see a chunk of rna that looks promising (either under a microscope or with your 2 eyes looking at a stalk of corn) and then do all you can to put that sequence into all your plants. This can be accomplished through selective breeding (as long as 10-20,000 years) or with a scalpel (sic) (say 2 months or so to show pos or neg results. And no, for godsake, they are NOT mixing animal and plant genes for sale to the american public, that is myth and u legend.

Umm . . . as an issue in and of itself, yeah, it has some importance regarding safety. But, when you put it up against topics such as discrimination and such, a mutant chicken is the last thing I'm worried about.

Don't mess with mother nature. Okay?