Comment Re:Awful headline. (Score 1) 356
We don't know chemical composition of a drop of saliva or blood or snake venom or spider saliva. In otherwords, if I put the best scientist in a lab and give all the elements on the periodic table, will he/she be able to produce a drop of blood! We sure know one basic organic number system - dna but we still don't know 100s of other fundamental concepts involved in make a drop of blood. Human body has adapted to the environment over a course of millions of years. Food is part of that environment, manipulating it without understanding is like a kid playing with a blow torch. We think we are the most intelligent, think again, we don't know how a plant converts the inorganic materials into food. We don't even know how stomach digests meat but not itself(when it too is made of meat). Stingray genes were mixed with tomatos to prolong the shelf life. It means tomatos cells won't break down easily. Stomach breaks the food and then absorbs, so as a lay man I would think stomach must be struggling with breaking down a GM tomato. Sure I ate GM tomatos and I am fine, human body is extremely adaptable too but will it be the case past my prime, say age 35, where my body has started decaying and I put the additional burden on it to cope with the modified food. I eat GM food because I don't care how long I will live. But dismissing the others as freaks is probably a bad idea. In software analogy you are closed source :-)