We've Probably Eaten Them Already

I would most defiantly eat the New Leaf Potato's that were altered because as Pollan suggests, "chances are I've eaten plenty of New Leafs already, at McDonald's or in bags of Frito-Lay chips, though without a label, there's no way of knowing for sure" (Pollan 235).  Since the technology has been around for years it is definite that anyone who has eaten any starch product has probably eaten some form of altered potato or any other food for that matter, bananas, green beans, grapes, you name it.  I say that i have no problem with it for two reasons.  One i see now harm right now in eating it, on the news, there are no reports of communities coming down with terrible illnesses due to altered fruit and or vegetables.  In my own body i see no difference when i eat food that could possibly be genetically altered and until i do or the population sees a problem the government will probably not outlaw it.  Secondly, it's food, are people serious that they would boycott this when people are starving all over the world.  Are people serious when they would rather tell people starving for food that they need to wait because the organic crop might have had an infestation of insects or maybe a frost destroyed it.  I personally could not do that if i was in a position of power to give out food.  if later on down the road, some reports of illness and death came about from my actions i would stand by them because in my mind, if the majority benefits a few people are going to be sacrificed for the major cause .

-Billy T