Food Inc. part 2

One issue that had never even crossed my mind is genetic pollution. Nowadays you only hear about air pollution and other green house gas pollution that has been affecting our air quality and atmosphere but, rarely do we ever think or hear about the affects that these big corporations cause on our environment by putting genetically altered strains of DNA from the many different crops and cattle they try and reform. The section from Food,Inc. about genetic pollution was short but mind opening. To read about the collateral damage that these genetic alterations have brought upon the environment is very interesting and devastating at the same time.The section talked about GE's altered crops and how the pollen from their fields has been swept away by the elements and thus been exposed to the rest of the natural environment. Upon exposure to the natural environment, the pollen combines with natural pollen creating mutations. Not only does it effect nearby fields but the section specifically touched on how the GE's field crops have already began to wreak environmental havoc by its transportation via wind, rain, birds, bees and insects into a neighboring organic farm thus rendering this organic farm contaminated. One concept that I have picked up in this class is that everything on Earth is connected and if we alter one pattern, it creates a chain reaction that will forever alter the future.