GM Contamination

Did you know to control native cane beetles in Australia, in 1935 101 toads were introduced to the continent.  It failed, now Australia is overrun by the toads and is one of Australia's worst environmental mistakes, ranking alongside the catastrophic introduction of rabbits.  I didn't even know they didn't have rabbits there naturally!

So what is my point ... GMO is also an environmental mistake.  

"GM contamination of conventional and organic food is increasing. An unapproved GM rice that was grown for only one year in field trials was found to have extensively contaminated the US rice supply and seed stocks.* In Canada, the organic oilseed rape industry has been destroyed by contamination from GM rape.** In Spain, a study found that GM maize “has caused a drastic reduction in organic cultivations of this grain and is making their coexistence practically impossible”.*** 

The time has come to choose between a GM- based, or a non-GM-based, world food supply. 


*  Risky business: Economic and regulatory impacts from the unintended release of genetically engineered rice varieties into the rice merchandising system of the US. Blue, Dr E. Neal, report for Greenpeace, 2007, http://www. greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/ risky-business.pdf


**Seeds of doubt: North American farmers’ experience of GM crops. Soil Association, 2002, http://www.soilassociation. org/seedsofdoubt 

***Coexistence of plants and coexistence of farmers: Is an individual choice possible? Binimelis, R., Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 2008 


So my point is God gave us the garden and then cast us out because we didn't listen.  Now through our toil and sweat we grow our own foods ... or run to Giant Eagle! But we want it easy! And we want it cheap.  And, we continue to not listen and destroy His foods.  Look, I'm not a environmental crazy but I do know that the world's food supply is in jeopardy.