Global Q&A, ‘Do you make an effort to avoid eating genetically modified foods?’
This is what Epoch Times reporters from Latvia to Colombia discovered when they asked locals, “Do you make an effort to avoid eating genetically modified foods?”
Olga Yevseeva, 28, Statistician. Riga, Latvia: I always try to have a healthy diet, especially currently, when GM foods are spread everywhere. I am strongly against GM foods, as they are very harmful and dangerous for human health. So I try to grow fruit and vegetables myself, or buy them at the market from reliable people. Of course, I always read ingredients lists on the packaging and always have a list of dangerous additives with me! I believe that nowadays more people get sick, have allergies, developmental problems and so on exactly because of GM foods. People need to be very careful, because dishonest manufacturers do not always list all ingredients, or hide harmful ingredients behind nice and unclear words.
Global Q&A, “Do you make an effort to avoid eating genetically modified foods?”
Awareness of health risks to humans and irreversible harm to the environment that GM foods may produce has led some people across the world to explore eating homegrown, organic, or farmers market foods. This is what Epoch Times reporters from Latvia to Colombia discovered when they asked locals, “Do you make an effort to avoid eating genetically modified foods?”
Look for the Global Q&A column every week. Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspectives on local and global realities. Next week’s global question, “What trend do you see that strikes you as absurd?”
