What are we thinking!?!

In the article, Bio tech Century, Jeremy Rifkin discusses the advancements of bio engineered food. Bio tech corporations are taking beneficial genes from animals and splicing them into the DNA of plants that we eat. One example was the tomato plant that now would not freeze because it had the anti-freeze gene of a fish in it. Rifkin talked about making our crops bug and disease resistant as well as the practice of using a very small amount of genetic variety in the plants we grow. I think that it is time that we become aware of the dangers that can arise from genetically modifying our food. We do not know if there are any of us who would be allergic to a tomato with fish in it. We do know that bugs and disease evolve and will end up stronger than our genetically modified food. This will lead to major crop failures and with the gene pool so small the plants will not have a real chance to try to find their own answer to the new super-bugs. These are pretty bleak visions of our future. I do not want this to happen. We need to look at the way we make our food, how it is distributed, and what we turn it into (food products, ethanol,etc). The modern methods are new to all of us. In the past our food was grown and distributed locally. It was fertilized by animals and not petroleum. Farmers made good use of their land unlike mega farms today who only use 15% of their land for growing crops. The food was better, animals were treated like respectfully and not like a number or future profit. Like so many other aspects of our way of life, the food we eat is in need of a drastic change of direction. i just hope that more of us realize this before we really end up hurt.