Sanet Post, Ronald Nigh, November 16, 1996

>I am not so frightened of genetically-engineered food products as
>Greenpeace and many of the Sanet correspondents.

As they say, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's, then you probably haven't grasped the seriousness of the situation. I think we should be at least a little concerned.
There is good scientific evidence for being worried about the uncontrolled and unlabelled entrance of genetically engineered foods into the already degraded American diet. Why has, according to government figures, the health of the American people deteriorated every year since 1957? In part, it's lack of exercise, but the rest of it has to do with the corporate manipulation of our food system.
The question is one of choice about what you take into your body, about your personal relationship to the environment and about whether you or a small number of corporations who may not represent your best interests decide these things. Consumers are not being the trogladytic nincompoopes that Monsanto et al. seem to want us to think. They are rightly concerned about their health and rationally distrustful of a company and an industry that has not put consumer health and corporate ethics among their first 472 priorities at any time in the past. The consumers **of the world** are right on this and they have the right to be heeded.

Ronald Nigh
Dana Association
Mexico
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