PS: For Roundup Ready GMOs, there are some preliminary indications
that this stuff is not safe from a public health perspective. It certainly needs
more research before we can conclude that Roundup or the glyphosate
resistance genes are not the source of the problems that Huber identified:
http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/...roundup-update
I do not personally worry about the safety of gmo foods in general.
In Europe they simply require that the stuff be labelled on store shelves
if it contains GMO components, so consumers can make their own choice
about it. That seems reasonable to me.
I do object to companies like Monsanto using wind-blown cross pollenation
and patent protection lawsuits to persecute farmers who decline to
grow their proprietary seed. The idea that it is the farmer's responsibility
to keep something like that out of his field when it is carried there by
wind, insects, etc, seems absurd to me (as it did to the Canadian
High Court). It is like throwing a land mine over your neighbor's fence
and then the police arresting him for having an illegal explosive on his
property.