dyzzypyxxy said: My firm opinion is that the plant scientists and geneticists are good people that are not intending to ever make anything that will be harmful to people. They're doing it to either develop a better product eg. higher nutrient tomato, or to make a plant that actually produces more food.
What's really bad for people is starvation. There are fewer and fewer farmers able to grow food and make a living so better production, disease resistance, sturdier plants and fruits with higher nutrient value are all beneficial to the world. Farmers can grow more and better produce on the same amount of land and harvest a crop more dependably, too.
From what I've read, most of the fear of GMO products is based on unsubstantiated rumors. The fruits, grains and vegetables of GMO plants have been tested repeatedly over many years and found to be safe and good.
The one misguided mistake they made was developing herbicide-resistant corn and wheat varieties so the farmers could spray their fields with herbicide and still grow their crops. Even then, it wasn't the corn and wheat that was harmful it was the potential herbicide contamination that could have been a danger to people.
So, sorry Anne, I'm going to be in your bad books because I'd for sure grow that purple tomato if I get the chance. How can we know that it wasn't blueberry DNA that got mixed up into a tomato seed by a bird, and produced the first purple, black or indigo tomatoes. Mother Nature makes genetic modifications in so many ways, but it takes her a lot longer. To embrace this black tomato but reject that purple one makes no sense to me.
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