Genetically modified foods becoming staple in America's diet

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But even some advocates have concerns.

McCown believes farmers are planting too much corn that has been engineered to kill the corn borer.

"What that leads to is all kinds of things down the road," he said. "Insects will develop resistance. Ecologically that is stupid."

Others worry about inadequate controls.

In February, a Kraft Foods executive said the company would like to see the practice of using food crops to make pharmaceuticals stopped for fear they will get into the food supply.

That happened last year in Nebraska when the U.S. Department of Agriculture pulled 500,000 bushels of soybeans off the market. The soybeans had been engineered to produce an enzyme used in laboratories to speed the production of insulin. The company, ProdiGene of College Station, Texas, was involved in another case in Iowa, and last month agreed to pay $250,000 and cleanup costs that could total more than $3 million in the two states.

Kraft supports the use of genetically modified crops approved by regulators.

"Right now public acceptance of biotechnology in America is relatively high," Betsy Holden, Kraft's co-chief executive officer, told an agriculture group in suburban Washington, D.C.

"But how many more times can we test the public's trust before we begin to lose it?"

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