Saskia de Vries takes questions from the audience:
Question: I don't know the specifics, but I've read that Europe has a much different attitude towards genetically modified foods.
Do they have a nation-by-nation or a standard E.U. policy towards it?
Question: Is the science of food toxicity at the point where we would have any theory as to what would make the food acceptable
for our use?
Question: You talk about regulations and the F.D.A.... There is a category of product called nutritional supplements.... There
was an F.D.A. person... who actually said on television, "We don't have the resources to be checking what these nutritional supplements
are.... But the public should be aware...." Plus, another aspect is the lack of supervision of the manufacturing facilities [for these
supplements]....
Question: One of the previous speakers said that "you can't know the future...." My question is "how can we really ever know
whether it's safe?"
Question: I was wondering about Harvard: Do they have a policy statement on their view towards [genetically modified foods]?
Did the American Medical Association or the Surgeon General come out with a policy statement on it?
Question: Is there any evidence that, since this 25 years of genetically modified foods..., there is any greater, in general...,
prevalence of disease or allergic reaction heightening that could be remotely connected with food? You'd think that if there was a
serious problem... that you'd see some kind of statistical spike take place.
Question: The two major producers of genetically modified crops are Archer Daniels Midland and Monsanto. They don't want to do
the kind of testing that some of us would like. In doing your research, what arguments do they present for not wanting to do the
research? If they truly believe that their products are safe and harmless, why are they resisting doing the testing?
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