Completely agreed. No real difference between a banana and a RoundUp enhanced soy bean.
Really? So you're telling me that a banana with new characteristics obtained through breeding also contains a tobacco mosaic virus vector? People who are opposed to GM, especially the way Monsanto does things, are quite well-informed.
GM crops used in controlled studies have been shown to even have toxic effects on lab rats' liver and kidney cells. This while the control group were fed exactly the same amount of food from a non-GM crop. One specific initial report concluded that there was no statistically significant effects, because the person who processed the data worked for the company who created the maize. A reprocessing of the data indicated that there was actually a statistically significant difference in the rats that ate GM maize.
Second reason why GM crops are bad - genetic diversity. If one company supplies all the seeds for a certain crop, all the old variants would eventually vanish (either through farmers not planting older variants and producing seed, or cross-pollination with GM crops). A study was done in Mexico that found traces of GM crops in normal fields, even though they had a ban on importing GM seeds at the time. This was caused by cross-pollination.
Litigation also comes into play. Due to the GM plants being registered, the companies can sue farmers who are found to have GM products in their harvest. How insane is that; sueing someone for something bees and the wind brought to your farm.
Don't believe the hype that GM crops are always better (possible long-term health effects aside). There have been cases where plants bred outside of a lab have shown superior drought, water or pest resistance to their GM competitors.
Was that ignorant, ill-read and uninformed enough?
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