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Issue: Genetically Modified Organisms

For millennia, farmers have raised the plants that make up the bulk of the world's food supply. By tending crops and watching how they adapt and thrive, farmers learned to hybridize, that is, selectively breed plants for the specific character traits they wanted to promote in a particular crop by cross-pollinating that crop with another variety of the same species.

Recently, scientists have taken that selective breeding a step further and have devised ways to alter characteristics of a particular food crop by inserting genes not from the same species but from totally unrelated species of plants and even animals. The most commonly modified crops are corn, soy beans, canola, and cotton. The science of genetic modification is anything but exact, and it raises major concerns. Click here for more information.

The website www.seedsofdeception.org offers more information on GMO's.