Obviously you are not in a position of needing food, so instead of asking yourself questions, perhaps ask some of the poorest of Africa, India, and China, genetically altered food or none? Then again, perhaps the poor don't deserve to answer?
Ma'am you could not be further from the truth. Poor farmers in India are being made poorer by GM companies. Poor farmers in Kenya and the rest of Africa are being made poorer by GM companies. Poor farmers in China have nothing to do with GM foods but are still poor. GM foods make no one but the companies themselves rich.
Why? Lets take a poor Indian farmer as an example.
He has a field in which he grows product A. He has enough to feed his family. He manages his farm as his father and his father's father has done.
Enter stage right: Monsanto.
Monsanto show him how to be rich beyond his wildest dreams by killing everything that is not Product A and increasing his yield. For the first year he is just like you, as happy as a pig in shit. However, he finds that he is obliged to purchase Monsanto's own pesticide 'Round Up' and if he doesn't he is threatened. Threatened? I hear you ask. Yes. Because his GM seeds cannot be propagated for the next growing season he is forced to buy more seeds from.... Monsanto. Of course, if he has not fully co-operated by purchasing 'Round Up' he might find his seed supply suddenly in scarce supply. Monsanto say, and people like you believe them, farmers use less pesticide with GM foods. Wrong. They may use fewer (only Round Up) but, in fact MORE chemicals go onto the land than without.
So farmer Singh has a wonderful field of say wheat. Great. However his village come to him and say, 'For generations we have been gathering XYZ plant for medicine and now there is none.' No problem. They can buy medications like you do. Aspirin, Panadol instead of leaves and stalks which used to be just as efficient. But they have no money! So now, not only do they have no money, they have no medicines for the sick and elderly of their village. There are no insects in the fields and therefore no birds. No birds to fly and sing and no birds to eat.
Multiply that, Annie, by a thousand... a hundred thousand... a million! Can you not see how this works. Only Monsanto win.
And YOU eventually loose whatever choice you think you had. Apples do not naturally grow in identical shape, size and colour four to a pack. They are made to do so so the supermarkets can reduce their overheads and reduce their staffing levels. It puts people out of work.
So GM foods contribute to poverty. Poverty in third world supply countries and poverty in your own home town.
Wake up lady. Your worst nightmares are just around the corner. And the nightmare makers love you for helping them screw you over.
