What is GE? What is it Used For The Dangers! Organic Foods GE and You About This Site Contact Fundamental Weaknesses Our Health Pollution What Do Scientists Say? Monsanto: The Future of our Food			Pollution Herbicides, Herbicides, and More Herbicides Now that plants are being genetically engineered to be herbicide resistant, herbicide use may actually triple. Farmers will no doubt use more herbicide when they think their crops can handle it. First Herbicides, Now Pesticides Companies are now engineering crops that manufacture their own pesticides and may be classified as pesticides by the EPA. This means more pesticides into our food and fields than ever before. Changes in Our Environment With completely new organisms being created all the time, local ecologies may be damaged. New organisms may compete with others that have never had the competition, causing unknown changes in the environment. Gene Pollution Cannot Be Cleaned Up Once GE organisms, are integrated into the environment it is impossible to contain or recall them. Unlike chemical or nuclear contamination, negative effects are irreversible, and just as bad, almost completely unknown.  Other Problems To Much Junk Although scientists are beginning to understand the functioning of DNA, most is still unknown. 97% of human DNA is called "junk" because scientists have no idea what it's purpose is. Yet the biotech companies have already planted millions of acres with genetically engineered crops, and they intend to engineer every crop in the world. For more on world domination, see Monsanto: The Future of Our Food. What's Wrong? The problems with GE arise from a lack in understanding of the fundamental workings of life itself. There is so much we do not know, yet companies are trying to feed the world, based on a technology which is far from perfected. Many top scientists from around the world agree. See what the Scientists Say.  Please send all feedback to ge_is_evil@hotmail.com © 1999 ThinkQuest Team 25365.