Reply #2: Food Fight: The Truth About Genetic Engineering

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http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/multimedia/download/1/544183/0/365

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MYTH #2: GMOs can make foods better, more nutritious, longer-lasting and better-tasting.

REALITY:
* The reason for the 70 million acres of GMO crops grown in this country today has nothing to do with nutrition, flavor or any other consumer benefit. There is little benefit aside from the financial gains reaped by the firms producing GMOs. Nearly all of the GMO corn, soy, potatoes and cotton grown in the United States has been genetically altered so that it can withstand more pesticides or produce its own.
Spraying of genetically engineered soya.

MYTH #6: GMOs are necessary to feed the developing worlds growing population.

REALITY:
* In 1998, African scientists at a United Nations conference strongly objected to Monsanto's promotional GMO campaign that used photos of starving African children under the headline "Let the Harvest Begin." The scientists, who represented many of the nations affected by poverty and hunger, said gene technologies would undermine the nations' capacities to feed themselves by destroying established diversity, local knowledge and sustainable agricultural systems.7

* Genetic engineering could actually lead to an increase in hunger and starvation. Biotech companies eagerly pursue a genetic-engineering technique named "terminator" technology that would render a crop's seed sterile, making it impossible for farmers to save seed for replanting.8 Half the world's farmers rely on saved seed to produce food that 1.4 billion people rely on for daily nutrition.

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