Comments on: Experts on Food Crisis: Stop Promoting Genetic Engineering and Pesticides News on pesticide science, policy and activism Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: d dooddler Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:59:02 +0000 Consider this:

Many engineered plants are modified to include a Pesticide in the gene sequence, natural or artificial pesticide is not my point; my point is that a poison is in the gene sequence of the plant.

The poison in the gene sequence of the plant acts as a poison in the gut of the insects it is designed to deter or kill. That is, it has the same net effect as a pesticide in the gut of the insect that eats the plant.

Can one posit for debate that the gene sequence acts the same way in the gut of a human being? That is, it acts as a poison or a pesticide, probably with detrimental effects such as killing off the beneficial bacteria (thus the rise in popularity of activia and yogurt products), and may accumulate and cause gut cancers of one kind or another?

Can one posit for debate that some humans will be more sensitive to such poisons and pesticides than others, giving rise to an entirely new and unique set of potential allergies, horrific reactions, and organ decay?

Absent absolute scientific proof that these sickening effects are not occurring, what right do seed producers have to cause harm to consumers, harm up to and including death?