Transcript Still Seems Like Food To Me

Still Seems Like Food To Me
What’s the matter with the food I’m eating
Are you worried that it’s modified?
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Maybe I should buy my food organic
Till these high-tech fears subside
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Inside I tell ya that I’m not so worried honey
Even if Monsanto’s makin’ lots of money
Roundup ready soy beans
BST and fish genes
It still seems like food to me
Still Seems Like Food To Me
What’s the matter with the corn I’m nibbling
Are you worried that it’s got BT?
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Seems peculiar that the government said
It’s fine for animals but not for me
Still Seems Like Food To Me
The farmers love it ‘cause the corn borer’s dying
Others say it might prevent the monarchs from flying
Allergens, Starlink
You wanna know what I think
It still seems like food to me
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Oh it doesn’t matter
what they say in the papers
‘Cause it’s always been the same old scene
There’s some new food on your plate
It’s hard to get the story straight
From a feature in a magazine
About a complicated gene
Still Seems Like Food To Me
We hear the stories about biotech’s promise
And the ways to improve our plants
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Industry thinks we’ll accept their new products
If we just give ‘em half a chance
Still Seems Like Food To Me
But until we see some benefits
for consumers
There’s sure to be resistance from lots of baby boomers
Agriculture’s new wave
I’ll just have to be brave
It still seems like food to me
Still Seems Like Food To Me
What’s the problem with genetic changes
We’ve been making ‘em for hundreds of years
Still Seems Like Food To Me
All those crops from conventional breeding
Never sparked the same types of fears
Still Seems Like Food To Me
But now we’re able to move genes across species
Cutting edge research
hand-in-hand with ethics theses
It’s the next phase,
fears raised,
Trails blazed,
anyways
It still seems like food to me
Still Seems Like Food To Me
Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new crops,
Funny, but it still seems like food to me.