Comments on: USDA: No Environmental Impact Study Needed to Deregulate Genetically Modified Corn http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/usda-no-environmental-impact-study-needed-to-deregulate-genetically-modified-corn/ Twilight Earth is dedicated to saving the Environment through shared News, Discussion, Advocacy and Activism Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:49:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Sheri http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/usda-no-environmental-impact-study-needed-to-deregulate-genetically-modified-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-3682 Sheri Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:45:35 +0000 http://www.twilightearth.com/?p=2474#comment-3682 I just saw "Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals -- What the biotech industry doesn't want you to know about genetically engineered foods". It's a great documentary that sites cases of both animals and humans being sickened (and in the case of the animals, dying) after eating GE foods, as well as interviews with scientists who lost their jobs after speaking out against GMOs. It's good information that is going unreported! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHZl_U0764" rel="nofollow">Watch it on YouTube</a> I just saw “Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals — What the biotech industry doesn’t want you to know about genetically engineered foods”. It’s a great documentary that sites cases of both animals and humans being sickened (and in the case of the animals, dying) after eating GE foods, as well as interviews with scientists who lost their jobs after speaking out against GMOs.
It’s good information that is going unreported!
Watch it on YouTube

]]> By: Becky http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/usda-no-environmental-impact-study-needed-to-deregulate-genetically-modified-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Becky Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:15:14 +0000 http://www.twilightearth.com/?p=2474#comment-3675 I'm with you guys, Derek and Thorne! GMOs are superscary. How can we know the full implications of messing with organisms on that level, even with extensive testing?? Didn't some sort of GM corn intended to livestock feed make it into the food supply not too long ago and make a bunch of people really sick? How are we not learning our lesson? I'm signing the letter, as well! I’m with you guys, Derek and Thorne! GMOs are superscary. How can we know the full implications of messing with organisms on that level, even with extensive testing??

Didn’t some sort of GM corn intended to livestock feed make it into the food supply not too long ago and make a bunch of people really sick? How are we not learning our lesson?

I’m signing the letter, as well!

]]> By: Thorne http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/usda-no-environmental-impact-study-needed-to-deregulate-genetically-modified-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-3656 Thorne Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:18:52 +0000 http://www.twilightearth.com/?p=2474#comment-3656 Oops. Bad html. Looks like I forgot to close a tag. Sorry, hon. Oops. Bad html. Looks like I forgot to close a tag. Sorry, hon.

]]> By: Thorne http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/usda-no-environmental-impact-study-needed-to-deregulate-genetically-modified-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-3655 Thorne Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:17:13 +0000 http://www.twilightearth.com/?p=2474#comment-3655 Ahhhhrrrgggh! Soylent Green is people! Hehe. Seriously. Genetically modified food plants pretty much freak me out, and <i>this</i><i> is beyond frightening. I remember when I was a teenager and first came upon a seedless watermelon. Innocuous enough to many, I suppose. Convenient, the target demographic thought, I'm sure. All I could think was that there is something incredibly wrong with altering a species so that it cannot propagate. And a watermelon, of all things! A symbol of fecundity and fertility, round like a pregnant Goddess... When I first began gardening I didn't understand how most of the commercial seeds had been altered so that the seeds from the harvest wouldn't reproduce. It broke my heart. This year's garden will be sparse unless I can find a seed exchange considering the cost of heirloom seed. *sigh... I digress. I'm clicking and protesting. Thanks for the heads - up, Adam!</i> Ahhhhrrrgggh! Soylent Green is people! Hehe. Seriously. Genetically modified food plants pretty much freak me out, and this is beyond frightening. I remember when I was a teenager and first came upon a seedless watermelon. Innocuous enough to many, I suppose. Convenient, the target demographic thought, I’m sure.
All I could think was that there is something incredibly wrong with altering a species so that it cannot propagate.
And a watermelon, of all things! A symbol of fecundity and fertility, round like a pregnant Goddess…
When I first began gardening I didn’t understand how most of the commercial seeds had been altered so that the seeds from the harvest wouldn’t reproduce.
It broke my heart.
This year’s garden will be sparse unless I can find a seed exchange considering the cost of heirloom seed.
*sigh…
I digress.
I’m clicking and protesting. Thanks for the heads – up, Adam!

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