Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Weeeelllll, that's kinda my point. Yes, that outcome is a good thing in those 2 "good" examples, but what I'm saying when I say we don't understand enough about it is; we don't know enough about it to be able to definitely say that those will be the only outcomes !

Whatever gene is turned off or added to that corn to make it produce 50% more may not effect you in any visible way, but any children you have may be born without arms (for example). And it may take 20 years of consumption for that link to be proven statistically. And in that time, that corn may have contaminated most corn growing areas around the world. All of a sudden we have a problem that is logistically impossible to get rid of (think cane toads).

Question: How is it that every industrialized nation in the world has banned Monsanto's rBGH as unsafe, but it's legal (and unlabeled) in the United States?

Answer: In order for the FDA to determine if Monsanto's growth hormones were safe or not, Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on that topic. Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto's researchers put the report together.

Shortly before the report submission, Miller left Monsanto and was hired by the FDA. Her first job for the FDA was to determine whether or not to approve the report she wrote for Monsanto. In short, Monsanto approved its own report. Assisting Miller was another former Monsanto researcher, Susan Sechen.