Many experts argue that Genetically Modified foods are actually beneficial to, not only people, but animals, plants, and the world overall. ... As a final point, GMO's are supposed to reduce the cost of farming and create cheaper products; all the same, GMO's have failed to do that as well. ... Not only have animal been affected, but humans as well; Smith's research shows that, in the Pacific Northwest, about "five-hundred people reported allergy or flu-like symptoms", and some of those same people "had to go to the emergency room" because the effects were s...

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"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. ... Farmers have been breeding animals and plants with specific traits for nearly ten thousand years. ... The plant is supposed to receive the DNA and start to read out its instructions, but this technique is often a matter of chance. ...

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Cummins surmises "Over the past 20 years Monsanto and the biotech industry, aided and abetted by indentured politicians and corporate agribusiness, have begun seizing control over the global food and farming system, including the legislative, patent, trade and judicial and regulatory bodies that are supposed to safeguard public interest.... The poisons and toxins used to ensure a full yield of GMO's or GE's are clearly related to an increase in infections, disabilities, disorders, and contaminations to both humans and animals. ...

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