... GMO is new. I am not convinced it is safe. I am not convinced it is dangerous. I simply don't know. I would prefer to not consume it until there is a LONG track record for it...
Fine, there are hundreds and hundreds of organic choices available to you or to anyone else at the local grocery store, just in case your home garden comes up short.
... As for the OTHER issues with GMO--contamination of other species, etc., I'm firmly against it....
No one is for contaminating anything, quite the opposite. But are there any FACTS that state that GMOs contaminate anything? If there are I fail to find them. There is this one fact that no one who opposes GMOs seems willing to admit. Before Bt corn or cotton came on the scene it was quite common for farmers to spray their crops multiple times with dangerous chemical pesticides in order to control insect pest. In one of your posts you mentioned a neighbor farmer who you came close to claiming died from brain cancer as a result of exposure to chemical pesticides. The flip side of that coin is that this man may still be living if GMOs had arrived sooner. I don't think that you are happy that he died, but would you trade his life for fewer GMO crops in your neck of the woods? I am betting that his family would not.
... I will continue to denounce any company that tries to patent the seed supply and forces so many other seed producers out of business...
The facts are that Monsanto has never sold a single seed to anyone anywhere. They do license their gene splicing technology to other seed companies both local, national, and international. The seed companies that you have been told that Monsanto is forcing out of business are doing quite well because they now have a product, Monsanto’s GMO seed, that is very much in demand. Besides Monsanto's paten for Round Up Ready soybeans expires in 2014. After that Round Up Ready beans will be in the public domain and you, your husband, even Old McDonald will be free to save and replant Round Up Ready soybeans. They will be free. What is wrong with free?
There are perhaps seed companies that failed to or that declined to hop aboard Monsanto's gravy train, and these seed companies may have been left behind in the dust of those that are licensing Monsanto's technology These first companies may drive the laggard companies out of business but Monsanto won't. If the backward companies try and steal Monsanto's paten then that is a GMO of a different color. But a seed company would be crazy to do that because they would have to keep their mouth shut about it and not advertise the fact to the world that their price for Monsanto's GMO technology was a steal. :-D
... Kingbee--I still think comparing labeling GMO foods to the Holocaust is ridiculous. Now if I were suggesting putting stars on the PEOPLE who consume/grow GMO foods, I would agree with you....
Refer to the first part of my post. You are free to eat all the organic food you desire or can hold. All organic food is GMO free food. Like there is no GMOs in organic food, nada, non, zip, nien. What more is there to wish for other than slapping identifying symbols or labels on nor organic food like the Nazis did to Jews????
... I'm not suggesting that. I personally consider it a right of the consumer to know where their products come from...
Then let them eat organic, read the above but when ever in doubt resort to the facts.