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The United Nations World Food Summit met recently to decide whether genetically-modified crops will save poor countries from famine or will contaminate normal crops, presenting a danger to food supplies around the world.

Despite a ban on planting GM corn there, Mexican corn crops have been contaminated by the GM StarLink strain, and this contamination will probably never be eradicated. If it?s discovered that there is some health or environmental danger linked to StarLink in the future, Mexico will have the hard choice of continuing to grow and consume it or will facing starvation.
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The U.S. government has stated that there is no evidence that anyone has had an allergic reaction to genetically modified StarLink corn. The corn has spread throughout the U.S. food supply, despite the fact that it was originally supposed to be kept separate and used only for animal feed. The results of recent tests could clear the way for the EPA to allow small amounts of the corn to be present in food without leading to recalls.

StarLink contains a bacteria gene that permits the corn to produce a protein that kills the corn borer. But the protein has some of the characteristics of an allergen, since it is not easily digested in the human stomach.
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