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Article: Five ways genetically modified foods threaten your health and what you can eat instead.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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You read in these pages nearly five years ago about the dangers of eating genetically modified (GM) foods. Now, you should be even more worried than ever. Entire European countries refuse to buy GM foods. So do 19 countries in Africa filled with starving people. People would rather risk starvation than eat GM foods because they believe these foods are unsafe.
Why?
Genetically modified potatoes can make their own insecticide to protect themselves from pests. Foods can be altered to contain more protein. GM produce stays fresher longer. Cows produce more milk. What's so wrong with this? Most people don't know how foods are genetically modified--and ...