Gm is proved safe the uk is the only European country left stalling why? less chemical less firtilizer?

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shadow	Man manipulated crops are not proved safe enough to convince me to eat them . Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

thank god i am an atheist	NO gm foods are continually being 'invented' ! I mean new modifications are thought up and patented the problem with gm food is that the multinational companies that genetically modify food are greedy and will sometimes alter the plant genome so that the plant becomes infertile! Thus making the farmers dependent on the seed company, like a crack addict is dependent on his crack dealer. Also there may well be eco-system implications of gm food that will evolve over time which are not understood yet. further the UK is NOT the only European country to not use gm food. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

tony b	Media scaremongering is the main culprit. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing and there are a lot of people who read parts of scientific literature but do not understand the whole story and then like to protest. The media pick up on this because "Frankenstein foods!" makes a more dramatic headline than "scientists help the world by increasing crop yields". There have been some shady things done in the past by large companies selling and trialing GM crops in third world countries but anything in europe will be properly regulated and researched so this should not be a problem. Unfortunate people in the UK are very set in there ways and don't like anything new that the general populous does not understand. Take the change to metric as an example. The rest of the world uses it, it's much easier to understand but because people are used to pounds and ounces and feet and inches they see the change to metric as being some kind of "foreign influence" and they don't like it. I'm not UK bashing here, I'm english myself. Finally to all those who say that we would loose the goodness that we get from "natural" plants. Does anyone out there really think that a tomato in the wild would grow all red and juicy like the ones we buy in the supermarket? It has taken years of cultivation and crossbreeding to get the vegetables that we now think of as "natural". Genetic engineering has been going on for centuries only now we can do it faster and with a bit more understanding. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No