I agree. I've not totally given up on fighting for a moratorium on GM development until we know more about it, it just seems Pandora's box is already opened. My biggest fight has now turned to just getting the stuff labeled so I have the choice to avoid it. It's becoming harder and harder to recognize non GM food because now the words "natural" and even "organic" aren't sacred unless they are certified. And then you have to do research on the company that certified them in order to see what their standards of certification are...URGH!! And like you said, it's so hard to control plants from germinating other plants, who knows really in our crops? Scary stuff! Thanks for fighting the good fight, it's a tough one.

Organic food doesn't use pesticides. And GM foods are modified to resist pesticides so that they don't die when the farm is heavily sprayed with them, killing all of the other living things(weeds,bugs,and small animals) except for the GM crop. So essentially, GM foods encourage more use of pesticides than previous non-organic crops did. Also, did you know that the same company that made DDT, and agent orange is the company who is the biggest advocate, seller and developer of GM seeds. Check out Monsanto...if in fact you would like to actually be informed on the issue.
Peace

Agreed. Get used to the new environmentalism: Used cars, not hybrids. Screw the spotted owl. Forget organic. Go nuclear. Wired magazine said it best.

GM food isn't saving anyone's life. It is not designed for that. It is meant to create a profit for big agribusiness. There is already plenty of food on the planet for everyone. Hording for profit is the main problem.
GMO's are created in several ways, all of which involve a process called "gene spicing," or literally cutting out parts of the DNA and replacing it with new DNA. In order to influence this new gene to be accepted by the receiving host, biologists use vectors to deliver genetic material into the cells of living organisms or culture them in vitro. Because viruses have evolved specialized molecular mechanisms to transport their genes inside the cells they infect, viral vectors are most commonly used.
In other words, viruses are used to infect the cells of the host in order to make them "sick" or weak enough to accept new gene information. The enormous complexity of cellular activities stored in the gene is not well enough known for this type of unpredictable manipulation. Toxin release,which usually occurs in very small amounts naturally, has been found to increase considerably in this process.
I accept that there will not be a time when this is no longer practiced in the food supply.
My main issue is that although I have decided for myself and my family that I do not want to consume these GM foods, the FDA and EPA have decided that I do not have the right to make that decision...labeling food to be Genetically Modified is against the law...on a federal level! So even at the state level, they are not allowed to label it. Not to mention that even the word "organic" on foods may not be what we think. Non-organic foods have been given the ok to use the word "organic", or "natural" as well. "Certified organic" is the only way to know for sure, and then you have to do research on who exactly certified it.
So even if you can not see why my "stupid, bourgeois American a**" would chose to stay clear of GM foods, I hope you can at least defend my right to do so.
Peace

Feel free to grow your own food. Just don't come running to us when it's wiped out by a plight or an early frost.

Who exactly is " us"? Just wondering.