STILL SEEMS LIKE FOOD TO ME 
Album : It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Billy Joel


What's the matter with the food I'm eating 
Are you worried that it's modified? 
Maybe I should buy my food organic 
Till these high-tech fears subside 
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 

What's the matter with the corn I'm nibbling 
Are you worried that it's got BT? 
Seems peculiar that the government said 
It's fine for animals but not for 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 

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 

We hear the stories about biotech's promise 
And the ways to improve our plants 
Industry's hoping we'll accept their new products 
If we just give 'em half a chance 
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 

What's the problem with genetic changes 
We've been making 'em for hundreds of years 
All those crops from conventional breeding 
Never sparked the same types of fears 
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 

Everybody's talking 'bout the new crops, 
Funny, but it still seems like food to me.