We're All Eating Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology in our food,but is it safe? Not enough testing has been done to know for sure.Not only is it in our food now, it’s used in cosmetics and sunscreens just to name a few products.According to an article from Yale the potential damage could take years or even decades to surface.

So in the name of profit and not caring about our saftey, it’s rushed right onto our dinner plates without adequate testing.

 Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules, introduces serious new risks to human and environmental health. Yet in the absence of public debate, or oversight from regulators, unlabeled foods manufactured using nanotechnology have begun to appear on our supermarket shelves.

[Around the world there is an increase in interest in our food, health and environment. Where are products produced, how, why, by whom, how far have they traveled, how long have they been stored etc. The organic and local food movements have emerged as an intuitive and practical response to the increasing use of chemicals in food production, and to the growing alienation of industrial agribusiness from holistic agricultural systems. People have chosen to eat organic foods because they care about the health of their families and the health of the environment. Organic agriculture also enables people to support integrated, environmentally friendly agriculture, and appropriate technology, rather than chemical-intensive factory farming.](Source)

[From kcet.org:

Michael Crichton was always a bit of an alarmist. In his novels, he exploited the simple concept that everyone from Bram Stoker to Alfred Hitchcock had mastered: Take something people experience every day, and make it kill them. For Stoker, it was open windows. For Hitchcock, it was roadside motels. For Crichton, it was technology.

"Jurassic Park" was about the bad things that happen when you start messing with DNA. "Airframe" was alarming because it played on the thought that goes through everyone's mind before take-off: Just how safe is this, anyway? His 2002 novel, "Prey," was all about what can happen when nanotechnology -- microscopic computers invisible to the human eye -- goes haywire. At the time, this seemed to be Crichton at his most over-the-top. Just how big of a problem could these tiny computers really be? But "Prey" is actually turning out to be more prescient than pessimistic. It's just that the nanobots aren't swarming outside our bodies. They're attacking from the insides.

At least, that's where my head immediately went while reading the adequately scary "Eating Nano" in E Magazine. The article, which appeared in last month's issue, details exactly how nanotechnology has found its way into our food supply. Just like GMOs, their existence was meant to help out. They supposedly deliver more nutrients to our bodies, keep food fresher longer periods, even enhance taste. Which is all well and good. Except that, in regards to nanotechnology, "safety-testing" is treated in a "we'll fix it when it's broke" kind of way.]