So I have been thinking about how to approach this ....I don't even know what to call it.....piece of writing? I am going to try my hardest to give you facts and unbiased information. But, please note I am very passionate about this subject so this is going to be tough for me!

I am sure many of you have recently heard all the news surrounding GMOs and you may be wondering what is all the fuss about? First lets tackle what a GMO is.  GMO stands for genetically modified organism. This organism can be plant or animal.  Well what does genetically modified mean? These organisms have certain genes forced into them, this means that every single cell of the plant or animal has this gene in it. Why does this matter? Let me give you an example.....without trying to use specific names to protect the guilty.

 Lets use an apple....and let's say blue apples sell best so I want to create a crop of all blue apples.So how do I make my new blue apples?? Well first I am going to find the gene that makes blueberries blue. Found it! Now I am going to take that gene along with a gene from a bacteria and a gene from an antibiotic and insert these genes into a cell from an apple. Why do I need a bacteria gene? Well the bacteria gene will "turn on" the blue gene in the apple. Why do I need an antibiotic gene? Well the antibiotic gene will be a "marker" gene so I can find the blue gene later on.

So now my blue apples are growing and selling like crazy and everyone is eating blue apples ( don't forget in EVERY cell of this apple, there is antibiotics, bacteria and a foreign gene)! This is GREAT!! Or is it??

Now I did my 90 day research on my blue apples and submitted it accordingly and they were approved for human consumption. There was nothing wrong with my blue apples...no ill effects at all in 90 days. Now there are A LOT of things we can eat for 90 days and there will be no long term ill effects. I can eat ice cream everyday for 90 days and yeah I may gain weight, my cholesterol may rise but, these symptoms will probably go away after I stop eating the ice cream every day. Now if you eat ice cream every day for 10 years what will happen? Has this ever been studied?

One of my biggest problems with GMOs is that whatever company is producing them is the SAME company that does the research on the safety of these products. A little conflict of interest one might say! The second problem is there are NO, I repeat NO, long term studies done on these products before they are approved for consumption! ( As you read above I did all the research and only for 90 days!)

Ok I am going to have to continue my "story" of my GMO blue apples in another blog because I have to go earn some dough and I have to figure out how to approach the next part of this continuing saga!!