James Fischer wrote:
>>a survey about genetically modified foods...
>
>
> Isn't it sort of useless to survey only the people
> who have more food than they can eat, and more
> choices than they can handle?
>
> Survey some of the REST of the 6 billion people
> on this planet - the ones that are barely scratching
> by, the ones that know someone who has died of
> malnutrition.

This was sort of done on a PBS special on GM plants. The conclusion was
that rich countries could debate the pros and cons while poor countries
required it to survive. In essence, the attitude of the anti-GM
advocates in the rich countries was "let them eat cake".

We in the US have been eating GM foods for more than ten years.

There are concerns but too many of them are based on the early years of
GM research and are not applicable now.

My main concern is not so much food safety but pest tolerance.

But that is also a concern we all share with what we put into our hives,
but considering the alternative, we still use it. Same with GM food.

The person in the supermarket can decry our use of varroa controls but
has an unlimited supply of sweeteners.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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