Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

We interrupt the regularly scheduled blog entry to bring you this breaking news…scientists in New Zealand have genetically altered  an onion improving it (by their standards). What improvements did they make to this new Frankenfood? It doesn’t make you cry when you cut it, really?

LINK TO STORY ON MUTANT ONION

Now really, do we need, want, a genetically engineered onion just because it makes us cry? I don’t. Do you want the FDA to make producers of such monstrosities to label them to let us know if we are eating cloned meat or genetically altered food? I DO!

If you are what you eat, then whose to say that eating a piece of food containing altered DNA won’t alter mine? If tea can naturally have an effect on your health in positive ways; lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol, helps you to lose weight, then how can something I eat that has been tampered with not effect me in a negative manner?