I respect your concern for the safety of produce and food products in the marketplace and I understand that the idea of GMOs just feels bad. But not everyone has access to small-scale farms, farmers’ markets or even organic produce in a grocery store. I certainly don’t on a continuous basis, and I’m one of the lucky people on the planet who has access to a wide variety of food 24/7.

I’d suggest, though, that there must be a balance between the steadfast refusal to consider any good that might arise from these technologies and the wanton use of unproven methods with possibly disastrous effects.

The World Health Organization has a great page on their site which attempts to bring the GMO dialogue back down to earth. You can find it at http://www.who.int/foodsafety/.....tions/en/.

It would also be fair to point out that humans have been mucking with God’s blueprint throughout the ages, adding on a “kitchen” or “bath” whenever the family outgrew the old structure. We’ve been culturing grapes forever on grafted vines, natural recombination and selective breding has been used for ages to create, from whole cloth, new types of animals and plants (did French poodles just wander in from the Serengeti one day?).

We can’t seem to be able to leave well enough alone and God, in His foreward-thinking-ness, has generously provided us with minute details of His blueprint that make it even more possible than ever to mess with the original design. Intentional on God’s part? Maybe… Who knows?

I’m not a Monsanto scientist or a raving pro-tech prophet. I’m just someone who works in research (another field) who sees how easy it is for those not savvy in particular fields to be easily misled by misinformation.