Actually there are many foods that we are already consuming that contain GM products.

I don't recall seeing any labelling on them.

Proper labelling would at least give the consumer the power to choose, rather than be forced to eat them by stealth.

What are the GM producers afraid of?

The problem is that companies like Monsanto own the Intectual Property Rights to these carcenegenic GM seeds. You can of only buy a contract to grow their seeds. The contract only lasts for a year. If you don't update the contract for the seeds, Monsanto will return with a summons. Your crop will be considered stolen property, you pay annual IPR patents.

If you never wanted Monsanto seeds, you are not "off-the-hook". The seeds blow in the wind, or birds fly them into your farm.

Thousands of farmers across the USA have been bombarded by private investigators. These Monsanto investigaters trespass on farmer's land testing to see that if any stray "Monsanto" IPR GM plants are "stolen" onto your farm.

They usually find the evidence of the infection. So, the farmer is sued a huge amount of money for stolen property rights. Monsanto uses the best lawyers. Can't afford that amount? Often, Monsanto confiscates the farm in settlement.

Infection of these new seeds has crossed the borders of Canada and Mexico and is causing many legal headaches. Farmers are worried about being infected, then sued, and therefore losing their farms to the multinationals.

The second problem is the process of genetic modification itself. The science deliberately causes a carcinogen puncturing the surface of the cell so that the DNA spiral can be modified.

Malignancy is necessary for the process of the genetic modification to be possible in the first place. So where does the malignancy end? Plant DNA is mixed with animal DNA. Fish mixed with strawberries, moths with potatoes and so on.

Look at what is happening in the US. (My apologies for the U Tube site: UFO logo. The information is copied for another site more reputable site).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SywTI3jsI

GM and Aspartame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0cwT0fsQ1Y

Cancer causing technology creeps from behind as the Governments and Monsanto will do everything they can to dumb you down and make you believe that this is actually "green friendly". It is not.

It is only corporate friendly and hostile to small farmers and possibly to the natural health of our bodies.

Saintfletcher, you're right on the money, but could I add one more very important function of certain GM food crops. I believe that some GM crops are basically non-viable, that is, will not reproduce. Much like the hybrid garden vegetable crops sold by large corporation brands such as Yates and Hortico. GM seed will travel and it will contaminate any crops it comes in contact with. If, eventually, it contaminates enough of our basic food crops, available seed will only be able to be sourced from the major supplier/companies. Then those companies own every person on the face of the planet. You have to buy from them, or starve.

GM is simply and purely a money making exercise for large commercial entities.

In answer to the original question, my opinion is that we should definitely NOT support GM crop production in Australia and do all in our power NOT to support any farming organisations that support GM production.

BUGSY: I prefer to read scientific reports from way back to present.

It looks to me, having studied all your comments that you might represent a pestcontrol/chemical firm and being paid handsomely for your remarks. Besides that, why not do your homework and study a site like:
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/gmBacteriaFieldtest.php
http://www.i-sis.org.uk

....and BUGSY for your info about Dr. Irina Ermakova see the following
http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refID=77176
http://irina-ermakova.by.ru/eng/articles.html

happy studying:-)

If scientific reports are what you want, I-SIS is not the place to go for them. The creator of I-SIS, Mae-wan Ho, believes that quantum jazz is responsible for the operation or organisms rather than chemical reactions. This whole idea is based on the fact that pond organisms look coloured down a polarising microscope. There is no more experimental evidence than that for a new theory that tosses out every understanding of biology, chemistry and physics we have developed over 400 years. If you can believe that, you can believe anything.

The following will give you some better quality information
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/new_documents/
http://www.royalsociety.org/landing.asp?id=1216
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/biotechnology/index.shtml
http://www.agbioforum.org/
http://www.isaaa.org/kc/
http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/gmo.html
http://cls.casa.colostate.edu/TransgenicCrops/index.html

And on Ermakova, see the ACNFP http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/acnfpgmsoya.pdf