Are we eating from FRANKESTEIN CROPS??

Pitting the science and business community against
environmental and consumers groups and creating intergovernmental tensions,few technologies are as controversial as biotechnology.Ten years ago advocates of commercial biotech crops hailed them as a way to solve global hunger and protect biodiversity.It was an emotive issue to pin on the importance of biotech crops,but to date they have failed to be a silver bullet for world hunger.Biotech crop sceptics, such as Friends of the Earth,continue to question the long-term impact on the environmental and public health,despite claims that genetic modification merely speeds up selective breeding,which advocates say has been a feature of farming for centuries.As well as the environmental and health concerns,worries persist over the concentration of power in the hands of only a few multinational corporations who hold the patents and intellectual property rights in the biotech market."There are big worries over the corporate concentration of the food chain and technology being in the hands of companies set up to deliver profits rather than environmental sustainability,"said Clare Oxborrow of Friends of the Earth."The control of large companies over the food chain if very disempowering for small scale farmers.Monsanto,the biggest GM seed company,is now taking over non-GM seed companies and now owns over 60 percent of the global cotton seed market."
One thing is definite; the world is growing more and more genetically modified crops. According to he International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, the use of biotech crops have increased fifty fold in the last decade and now cover 475 million hectares, an area the same size as half of China. One third of this area was grown in developing countries...
http://principalvoices.com/2007/technology.innovation/food_for_thought.html
As in the days of Noah...