Do you work for the marketing department of Monsanto ?
In the EU studies have been done approximately 15 years ago where the result about bovine growth hormone. Those studies had results indicating that rBGH and the results of rBGH can be found in the milk as well as mastitis . While the Monsanto and the FDA claimed such effects do not happen. rBGH is banned in most of the world but not in the US. Faster maturing girls is happening now ? Better check if rBGH products are not in the diet of those girls.
As such, anything produced by this company Monsanto is carefully looked at.
Unfortunately, bribery of politicians combined with lobbying is still going on. But rBGH is still banned.
To come back of the genetically modified crops. There is a rather large decrease in yields. If this is in correlation with the use of genetic modified crops, remains to be researched. What i do know, is that nature by the use of viruses and bacteria exchange gene fragments from one species to another. And plantlife is also a part of that system. Genes from genetically modified crops can be found everywhere in the wild now. And there have been stories about some farmers who have noticed a decrease in yield since the use of the crops.
I am not against genetic modification to enhance certain desired traits, not at all. But the arrogant behaviour together with the patent system are open passages to abuse of the technology and create situations where the humans are unknowingly poisoning themselves.
Now hormones are a separate issue. I'd be more worried about those persisting in the food supply than other stuff, just because many animal hormones are similar enough to human hormones to cause a reaction. The developing early thing - probably more to do with body fat and the larger amount of available calories. I took an endocrinology class during my time in school and it did bring up the issue, but stated that the exact signals for the start of puberty in the body were not understood, but if you look at the supply of food in the last 150 years, it has only increased and correlates with a lower start to puberty.
But I'm specifically referring to crops. Things like rice with a Vitamin A gene (which is useful in parts of the world relying on rice and few natural sources of Vitamin A), pesticide resistant plants - so you can grow more and use less pesticides in the same area, etc...
Despite COW's insistence on blaming Europe for everything all the time, what Europe is pushing on Africa in regards to genetic engineering of crops is ridiculous. The book
Denialism mentioned that places like Zambia rejected a large shipment of wheat just because it was genetically modified instead of being grown "naturally." Ridiculous when you consider how many people are on the brink of or actually starving.
Is the patent process behind GE food kind of ridiculous? Yes. But am I against the process of making farming better? Absolutely not.
But GE food does offer hope to places in Africa to become self-sufficient. If you can create crops that don't need as much water or can grow in harsher soil, it would be perfect as the arable land in Africa is not that large. Increasing crop yields in the limited amount of space is a good thing. But for some reason, some group (cough Europe cough) likes to keep pushing the idea on a starving continent that GE food is evil and shouldn't be grown.
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