The Biotechnical Revolution

The biotechnical revolution has me wondering what are we really eating?

Chemicals and money drive the economy and we have become lab rats for major corporations.

GMO’s or genetically modified organisms are crops that scientists have altered for qualities making them easier to produce or more marketable. The crop appears heartier, are more resistant to pests, have a longer shelf life with greater temperature resistance, and higher crop yields with shorter growing cycles. If it looks like food and tastes like food it must be food. Right? Maybe not.

The ability to farm prolific amounts of grains with little care to environment has led us to a world that ingests food substances that are not natural born, but genetically altered.

Biotechnology is basically an invasion of cellular structures with the ability to produce a final product by gene splicing and forcing molecular structures to change by the introduction of viruses or bacteria.

With E-Coli slipping through into our mainstream foods, I would think that there would be much more of a halt or at the least a security process that must be met before the human population is exposed to this technology.

 

In 1998, Mexico banned the planting of GMO corn and since then, all 15 countries in the European Union have listened to their own populace and have required labels on all genetically modified foods; the United States has not. The 2001 recall of genetically modified corn products in the US due to possible allergic reactions caused the public to become aware of what potential hazards were on their grocery shelves. Still, downplayed throughout the media, this has long since been forgotten and although illness is rampant and people struggle with immunity problems no one questions a tie between the food products we ingest. No labeling means there is no way anyone can say, “It is the genetically modified foods” that have created new disease, more illness, and an overall weakness to our body.

 

How can we look the other way; how can we ignore what the biologists that have no monetary gains are telling us about genetic modifying and biodiversity?

There seems to be a trend in the last decade that indicates the majority population wants natural, clean food, local farmers markets and organically grown produce. I've got my fingers crossed.