I wasn’t suggesting that chemicals used on food are tied to genetic engineering, I was comparing the two as unnatural and potentially harmful alterations.

GMOs just haven’t been tested well enough to start introducing them into the world food supply.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html

And, companies like Monsanto have fooled poor farmers in countries like India into testing genetically engineered crops with devastating results: http://tinyurl.com/5jyg6k

Everyone wants to believe that we will eventually solve the hunger crisis around the world. But, we need to do it responsibly.

There are thousands of environmental reasons to support GE crops, in addition to the tens of millions of humanitarian reasons that are alive today because they’re not crawling across a desert toward a UN food camp.

And for the record, I’m in favor of GE crops for food. Ethanol for fuel is stupid, as corn is such a taxing crop to grow, and it’s still a hydrocarbon–as in produces CO2 when burned.

Ok, now I can go to sleep. Cheers and good night!

The biggest problems with genetically modified foods are related to inadequacies in the patent system. Everything else is uninformed fear mongering.

The best summary of GE crops was on an episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!, if you want the reader’s digest version of why.

“Genetically modified crops are simply not the answer to poverty and food production problems. There is no evidence to support the claim that they are. ” Except the hundreds of millions of people with food to eat, of course! Also, the following line that compares the use of chemicals makes no sense. These are two separate and distinct issues. There is no connection.

AAAaaanyway, you know I love you guys, but when I saw this article in my RSS reader, I couldn’t get to sleep without calling bullshit on people eating food that’s never been shown harmful, and saves millions from starvation. But that’s just me.