It is a key ingredient in products from meat sausages and fish fingers to salad creams and breakfast cereals."" ... Genetically modified plants can cross-pollinate with other plants. ... As a result, the government didn't approve Star link for human consumption and it was planted purely as a feed for livestock on just 0.4% of U.S. corn acres but recently, StarLink began turning up in 10% of corn at some of the nation's big grain processors. ... Plants aren't a docile as we think. ... Genetically modified plants pose a risk to Nature as well. ...

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Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. ... No longer does the gradual process of selective breeding confine improvements; we now have the ability to genetically modify a species' specific characteristics within a single generation (Ford 65). ... Although man has been varying the make-up of other organisms through breeding for thousands of years, a forum of distinguished scientists and educators called SCOPE explain that "the terms genetic...

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European milk is dumped in Central America, destroying its indigenous dairy industry, and the dark meat that is less prized in European and American chicken markets is dumped in Senegal or other countries, wiping out flourishing domestic poultry industries. ... In 1998 over 18 million acres in the U.S. will be planted in Roundup Ready soybeans. ... After only two years after the Roundup Ready soybeans, over 30% of the corn and soybeans planted in the U.S., and close to 50% of the canola planted in Canada have been genetically engineered to be either herbicide or pesticide resistant. ... ...

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