Martha Herbert, M.D. Ph.D
Pediatric Neurologist
Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, and Harvard Medical School
Q: Why do you call genetically modified food "one of the largest uncontrolled experiments in modern history?
"In medicine, we expect to be informed about participating in experiments and given the right to consent or to refuse to participate. It's considered unethical and illegal for the medical profession to experiment on you without your informed consent. But no such standards apply in our food supply. Certain companies have flooded the marketplace with thousands of untested food products containing foreign genetic material with no label to alert us to these ingredients. The health effects have not been seriously studied. That means consumers are unknowingly test subjects." © 2007 Andrew Kimbrell, Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food, Reprinted by permission.
"In medicine, we expect to be informed about participating in experiments and given the right to consent or to refuse to participate. It's considered unethical and illegal for the medical profession to experiment on you without your informed consent. But no such standards apply in our food supply. Certain companies have flooded the marketplace with thousands of untested food products containing foreign genetic material with no label to alert us to these ingredients. The health effects have not been seriously studied. That means consumers are unknowingly test subjects." © 2007 Andrew Kimbrell, Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food, Reprinted by permission.
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