Would you eat "Frankenfood"?

[critter crazy]

Heck as far as I am concerned pretty much everything you buy now is "Genetically Modified" and has been for years! So why stop now???

[smokey the elder]

Twisterdog, thank you! YOu took the words right out of my keyboard. GM has been done since the dawn of agriculture. It's just in the last generation we have been able to accelerate the process. One place we DO need to be careful is "transgenes", where a gene from one species is inserted into another. This can lead to unforeseen effects. Golden rice is technically transgenic. The gene that codes for vitamin A does not exist in rice naturally, so the scientists put it there. The risk of any bad effects is *probably* very small, compared to the benefit of eradicating vitamin A deficiency in many parts of the world.

OK, I'll get off my soapbox now!