Natural gene pool under big pressure

WHETHER to genetically modify (GM) food sources or not is one of the most serious decisions mankind has ever had to take.

It is now in our power to genetically modify plants and creatures. The danger of multinationals controlling our destiny by enforcing patents on new food sources and medicines shrinks to insignificance against the dangers of GM creations polluting the natural gene pool.

Unfortunately, for every instance of what appears to be beneficial gene modification there is a GM accident waiting to happen. The future of the natural food chain and the workings of the land and the oceans cannot afford the catastrophe that would result if even a single GM experiment went wrong.