User blog comment:ZXSpidermanXZ/GMOs/@comment-24459121-20130205182703/@comment-24057825-20130205190153

Addressing the new stuff:

 "One type of genetic modification is Round-up ready. The scientists change the genes in a plant so it can withstand large doses of the herbicide, Round-up. This is extremely unsafe. If the bugs are dying from all of this poison when they try to eat the plants, what do you think is happening to the cells inside our bodies? "

Get your facts straight. Round-up Ready makes plants resistant to the pesticides, not making the plants INTO pesticides.

"Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with commercial crops grown around the globe. It was discovered to be a herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970.[3] Monsanto brought it to market in the 1970s under the trade name Roundup, and Monsanto's last commercially relevant United States patent expired in 2000.Some crops have been genetically engineered to be resistant to it (i.e. Roundup Ready, also created by Monsanto Company). Such crops allow farmers to use glyphosate as a post-emergence herbicide against both broadleaf and cereal weeds, but the development of similar resistance in some weed species is emerging as a costly problem. Soy was the first Roundup Ready crop." -Wikipedia(I know wiki isnt always trustworthy source, but I dont wanna go look all this stuff up on other sites).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

" Another thing that genetically modified foods are doing is taking money from hard-working farmers. The creators of genetically modified food are suing close-by farmers when the seeds of the modified plants are blown to the farmers’ crops. The creators have actually licensed the plant. This is the first time in human history that a certain living organism has been licensed"

You saw this where? I would like a link. But anyway, you do realize that a lot of farmers grow GMO's? There are special farms where people only grow organic food, and those farms reject GMO's if they find them(i.e. if a GMO seed blew into their farm, they would harvest it, and then just throw it away). Why are organic food so expensive? It has to compete with the GMO's. Its much harder to grow organic plants. Thats why GMO's were created, to make it easier to produce the food.

Long post.

