Introducing Rustle the Leaf
Cute comics with a conscience for earthly stewardship…
Update: ok, its more than cute. It’s also a little alarming. Read this:
GMO Food: A ‘Growing’ Concern
Pick up a microbiology textbook and you may be surprised to discover that genetically modified (GMO) food is being presented–not as an unproven new frontier raising both hopes and questions–but as a ‘done-deal’ hi-tech solution to the world’s hunger and health problems. You’ll read about corn plants that are genetically altered to carry life-saving vaccines to remote Third-World villages, and grains that can be engineered to produce their own pesticides! Missing from the curiously one-sided prose are accounts of the people in Spain who died after ingesting Canola oil pressed from genetically modified plants. Conspicuously absent is the test data showing how lab rats being fed GMO corn developed mutations in their kidneys and ended up with altered blood chemistry. Because genetic modification in food is such a multifaceted, politically charged science, we’ll devote the next six strips (as well as accompanying essays with related links) to the topic.
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