Genetically Altered Food

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Today in class, we watched a film on the genetic alteration of our food sources. These alterations promise many postive outcomes, such as faster growing crops and other positive aspects, but there are also many negative aspects as well. Corporations are taking over the farming industry, and the patenting of seed is destroying small farming as we know it. If a seed accidently winds up on a farm, they can be held accountable under law to pay the corporation that owns that seed.

I found this video on youtube that provides further information on the subject.



The video mentions that about 70% of the food that we eat today contains genetically altered ingredients. So how do we know which foods contain these altered ingredients? The thing is, we dont. They do not label altered foods. This industry is trying to convince us that the technology is our only hope, but is having a dominoe effect on the food industry.