Biopiracy

This is a really important topic.
Once thing mentioned on the site is that childhood cancers alone have gone up 26% in the last 30 years.
Have you noticed over the years an increase in people with severe allergies? Things that for all of history have been health foods? Nuts, dairy, fruits and vegetables?
What we are learning now is that 60% of our corn, 45% of our potatoes and 25% of the soy in Canada is GE (Genetically Engineered), then mixed in with non-GE foods?
We eat these ingredients in most of our processed foods. I'm afraid that in time this will begin to apply to our 'fresh' and non processed foods like produce.
Corperations like Dow, Dupont, Monsanto and Novartis are in a race to patent the planet's plants and animal genes.
What that means is that eventually, if left unchallenged, they will own the food chain. They'll be able to genetically modify it in any way they want.
Drugs and medicine are a trillion dollar a year business, it's in these corporation 'interests' to have increased illness, from cancer, to the common cold or allergies.

As someone who has seen a genetic mutation have serious health consequences for several generations of my family, I think that the effect of monkeying around with the genes of the items we consume is very important and needs 3rd party investigation, not science produced by the manufacturers themselves.
This is also the basis for dieseases like mad cow, and the reason behind a lot of drug resistant illnesses.

Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease