What effects do genetically engineered crops have on young people?

Answer 1

• Although I'm not a scientist of any sort, I am a man of reason, and observation. I notice that children are physically maturing much faster than they did when I was a child. For instance, females ages as early as ten, are developing full grown breasts, and have entered their menstrual cycle full force. In my opinion, this is directly due to genetically modified food animals. Farmers feed their livestock food that has been pumped full of hormones that will increase their growth rate dramatically. This in turn affects those of us that eat such rubbish. The adverse affects of these modified products, are most easily seen in chickens and turkeys. They are pumped full of genetically modified grain and they grow so fast that their legs, can no longer support their massive bodies, so they don't move, or can't move much. Quite often, in these sick and twisted farms they die of starvation, or dehydration, because their weak legs can't support them, and they can't walk to the feed troth, or water bowl. Although speaking out against mainstream thoughts that are pumped into the hollow brains of society makes you a crazy person, my hypothesis is that the epidemic of "Chronic Wasting Disease", often found in deer, is due to eating crops planted by men that are not comfortable accepting the fact that we are not in control, and horrible things happen when man tries to play god. In my very humble opinion, genetically modified crops, harm not just wild animals, but the domestic ones that we eat, which in turn harms us, just so someone can get their almighty dollar a few days sooner. The fact of the matter is a lot simpler than most realize. Genetically engineered crops are not what you think and it is a proven fact that plant DNA and animal DNA are not compatible. Most, but not all, engineered plants are actually plant crosses that intensify a certain characteristic such as drought resistance or resistance to certain insects. they are actually hybrids. If you would look at the diet of most young people, you will find they eat a lot of fast foods as we call them, and drink a ton of soda pops, eat a bag of chips and have not a clue as to what is healthy. You will also notice that most of these obese kids come from schools that do not have required PE.

• I totally agree with the previous poster. Just look around at the size of young males and females today. In the 50s and even 60s there were few over-weight people unlike today. There was less psychological problems, and I do blame this on genetically grown chickens (bird virus now) and beef in particular, but to be fair the rapid pace of society and other factors has something to do with depression and the high rate of suicides in especially young teens. Heaven only knows what they are doing to crops. We know little of the truth of how they really grow crops, and now scientists are pushing for cloning of veggies, animals, etc. You can read about it if you want to do the research on it, but if you notice little is said in the news about it. The planet is simply running out of food so scientists are coming up with ways to feed the over-flowing population. For every good thing there is a down-side. None of us know (including the scientists) what the long term side effects of genetically grown crops, etc., or cloning methods will do to future generations.

• There is in fact no evidence to link genetically engineered foods with any ill effects on purple or animals. the effects noted in the above contributions are as a result of chemically treated foods. Animals and plants have been genetically engineered for time immemorial through selective breeding and using the best seed for sowing successive crops. the effects we see on our children today are not the result of genetic engineering but the result of the greed of producers of food that have powerful political and media connections.

A:Some points to consider when contemplating the above answers:

1) The American includes a high amount of wheat products. The height of Americans has been historically a point of comment - long before sophisticated chemical and other bio-engineering introduced 'genetically engineered' anything. In WWI, the American troops arriving in England evoked many comments about 'those tall Yankee boys'. They did, in fact, tower over most other Europeans. In southern China where rice prevails as the main dietary ingredient, people are, generally speaking, fairly short. Move to the north, where wheat predominates, and you find Chinese who are comparably much taller.

2) Almost all the vegetables we eat today are 'genetically modified, or 'genetically engineered'. Corn (actually 'maize') started out many centuries ago as a grass. Through centuries of selective cross-pollination, the native populations of the Americas 'genetically engineered' that grass into a plant that produces enormous seeds (the kernels we love to eat). From one species of cabbage comes literally dozens of variants, (brussel sprouts, red cabbage, green cabbage, etc) because of selective pollination and farming. Pick any vegetable, and find dozens if not hundreds of varieties that man has engineered to suit his farming technology or climate or ease of production - any of a hundred reasons.

3) Almost all of the meat and poultry and their products come from animals which have been 'genetically engineered' through, again, selective breeding and sometimes better nutrition by introducing various different nutrients into the diets of those animals.

These naturally 'genetically engineered' food animals far outnumber the admittedly misguided and sometimes dangerous of artificially-induced genetic mutations - and of course care should be taken when choosing any food product. The term 'genetically engineered', though, is particularly mis-used and over-used as a criterion for identifying questionable manipulation of our food products.

There's much more, but to avoid 'genetically engineered' would mean starving to death.