Some food is like bitter medicine that is hard to swallow.

Genetically modified food doesn't come on a silver platter.

First the gnawing fear of eating the unknown which closes the mind to the facts and opens up horror fiction.

Bt corn with human ears, atomic rice, biopigs raised in the laboratory for human-parts replacement ending up in the neighbourhood meat shop-every breakthrough in technology is both awe-inspiring and unpalatable at the outset.

Next comes the though that all the while technophobia was nibbling at the lack of information, most of today's population are ingesting processed food that probably has more foreign matter than biotech food.

A quick look at the container label would show synthesized ingredients and additives from government-authorized food colors, to artificial flavours and essences.

The vegetarian sausage or hamburger patty could be textured vegetable protein coming from Bt soya beans.

Resistance to genetically engineered food will probably be overcome when some food technoentrepreneur begins selling his goods to the consumers as the fishmonger does in a wet market.

In those days when snack food was not vitamin-enriched, how were the merchants of junk food able to dump all that garbage into billions of stomachs?

Food derived form genetically modified organism will be inevitable when traditional food production is unable to cope with a fast growing population.

For the many who cannot stomach the idea of a GMO food in the ref, on supermarket shelves, or in vending machines the better thing to do is to get to know GMO before banishing it to the recycle bin.

There is nothing like knowledge acquired to go with acquirer taste.