Scientists warn that genetic pollution is more dangerous than nuclear contamination.
Unlike nuclear contamination, genetic pollution can never be cleaned up. Moreover , genetically altered crops can reproduce themselves, any mistakes are passed on to all subsequent generations and can never be recalled from the environment. Any lover of life should be against genetically altered food. These concerns were heightened by a scientific report in the January 4th 1997 New Scientist magazine which confirmed that foreign DNA sequences eaten by rodents can cross over from the intestines directly into their bloodstream and cellular structure. Dr Peter Wills has warned, genetic engineering of food can open up channels for diseases to cross from animals to humans as happened in the case of BSE, or Mad Cow Disease.