Food+safety

=Food safety-is genetic engineering of our food supply the answer?=

Mishandling products in the U.S. food supply—among the safest in the world—can make eating downright dangerous
Did you ever think that eating could be dangerous? Well-read the following article (the 1st paragraph is quoted below) and watch the video and see if this changes how you view food and eating.

There are several food related links on this page. You cannot read the entire article without subscribing to National Geographic, but there is enough information here to generate some thoughts for your discussion.

“According to the CDC, each year in the United States 76 million people suffer from foodborne disease; 325,000 of them are hospitalized and 5,000 die. In the developing world contaminated food and water kill almost two million children a year. The epidemiologists in this room are keenly aware that behind the numbing, cold-potato statistics are real people, particularly the very young and the very old, who have suffered debilitating, even lethal, disease from what most of us consider one of life’s less risky activities: eating. “

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/feature1/index.html

Along with this article on genetic engineering and food safety is a video.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/sights_n_sounds/media2.html

Please read the article and watch the video and post your comment(s) and supporting information about food safety and genetic engineering.