[Sca-cooks] NOT OT: genetically engineereed foods

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/3/2003 8:37:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
phlip at 99main.com writes: 

> Well, you know, I don't really care who they are, or what they're called.
> Any person who refuses to eat perfectly good food, whether Jewish, Muslim,
> vegetarian, or just picky eaters, is in my mind an idiot who has never been
> truly hungry.
> 
> I do understand that folks have the right to make different choices- as long
> as they're willing to pay for those choices, fine by me. But, this panic
> mentality about geneticly engineered foods, when most of the people yelling
> are yelling from ignorance, rather than because they actually understand
> what is happening to their foods, and why these foods might be unsafe  OR
> SAFE to eat, led by foodie demagogues, who get their power by making other
> folk do things- well, a mob of geniuses, by the inverse mentality law of
> mobs * is still a pack of idiots.

There's not one person on this list I wouldn't welcome in my home with open 
arms, or go out of my way to help.... that said...

1. They're still doing everything they can to conceal genetically modified 
foods, to the point of strong arm tactics against people who want to label them, 
this in itself bothers me.

2. Given the recent history of business and science, I'd feel a heck of a lot 
better if there were more testing. Maybe it's just the generation I grew up 
in, but when they try to keep me ignorant "for my own good" it gives me the 
willies. It bothers me more that THEY are ignorant of what the final outcome will 
be.

3. After the genie is out of the bottle, and our food is compromised on a 
genetic level.... where do we turn?

One idiotic voice among many.

Corwyn 

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. 
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the 
consequences. -- P. J. O'Rourke