Pharma food

Say ‘no thanks’ to edible drugs and chemicals

By Culinate staff

November 19, 2008

Barry Estabrook, one of Gourmet magazine’s environmental watchdogs, recently summed up the latest GMO news: crops that not only repel insects or resist herbicides, but produce drugs and chemicals. These “second-generation GMO crops,” as Estabrook calls them, aren’t meant to be eaten — but given pollen drift or just seed mixups, you could. Yum. Estabrook points readers toward a Union of Concerned Scientists petition demanding indoor-only cultivation of plants grown to produce chemicals and drugs.