Food for Thought on GM Crops

Fourth, pollen from GM crops may contaminate organically produced food.

GM crops that resist certain pests and tolerate herbicides have gained rapid acceptance in many countries.

Despite the bad rap they ve gotten, the GM crops in use today have already contributed to meeting both challenges.

Despite dire predictions, no adverse effects of GM crops on health, biodiversity, and the environment have been documented to date.

In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

In the 12 years since their commercial introduction, insect resistant GM crops have increased yields while significantly decreasing the use of toxic pesticides.

I realized at once that opposition to GM crops and foods has as much to do with social and political values as with concerns about health and safety.

Despite dire predictions, no adverse effects of GM crops on health, biodiversity, and the environment have been documented to date. The only unanticipated effects so far have been beneficial.

The crops need rain.

What, then, is the danger of GM foods?

What incited such fierce sensitivity about GM foods?

Is labeling GM products for consumers a solution?

The crops failed last year.

The hail harmed the crops.

The land yields heavy crops.

This land gives good crops.

It will damage the crops.

Poor crops may cause famine.

Poor crops may cause famine.

The flood ruined the crops.

Similarly, a large share of farmers most of them smallholders in Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, China, India, and other countries, prefer GM seed because they make more money from the resulting crops.

The storm will damage the crops.

Outside Europe, the GM green revolution holds more stark implications.

It is time to replace GM technology with ecological farming.

GM techniques are widely accepted in medicine and food technology.

It is time to replace GM technology with ecological farming.

They had poor crops year after year.

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In Europe and beyond, GMOs became emblematic of the powerful economic fears that globalization inspires. In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

Dying peasants harvested the spring crops under watchtowers.

Crops, gardens, and orchards provided abundant food supplies.

In the fall we harvest our summer crops.

The flood did great damage to the crops.

The typhoon did much damage to the crops.

The prolonged drought did severe damage to crops.

Cotton ranks among the world's most important crops.

There are fields, crops, oxen, people and waterways.

Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.

Certain crops can be grown in their own homes.

Children in Central America harvest crops sprayed with pesticides.

Thus, energy crops could be developed to produce biofuel.

Wheat, rice, and maize are the most important crops.

Similarly, GM feed has not resulted in any illness or death in animals.