Watch out!!! These foods apparently cause cancer....................

ninerbuff

goddessofawesome wrote: »

honkytonks85 wrote: »

I try to avoid most of these things. I think there's some merit to them not being great for you - especially nitrates and smoking meats. I actively attempt to avoid GMOs and hormones. I'm not perfect, but I feel good about reducing my intake of all items on this list (except Alcohol - you can't make me give up the *maybe* 10 glasses of wine I have a year!!)

Why do you avoid GMO's? They are completely safe to eat. I actually go out of my way to avoid organic food.

Completely safe because the FDA said it is?

Sorry but when food is resistant to pests and pesticides it makes me wonder what they're putting in it to make it that way. I'll stick to my heirloom variety plants from my own garden thanks.

And no, GMO is NOT the same as hybrid.

I guess you don't believe in immunization either then?

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nam985

Frankly I will stick to conventionally grown and GMO based foods any day over organics.

Does conventionally grown produce get sprayed with a variety of herbicides/pesticides? You bet it does, but the ones used have been well studied and are shown to be safe. Do organic growers use pesticides? You bet they do! They are just naturally occurring as opposed to synthetic. Natural compounds can be just as nasty as synthetic ones (eg. Rotenone, long used as an organic pesticide is toxic to mitochondria and causes Parkinson's-like symptoms in rats), and many of these organic pesticides actually failed the highly stringent safety evaluations of the European Union.

The use of organic pesticides is more problematic to me because a) the amounts of these chemicals used on a crop is not required to be reported to the government and b) quite often much more pesticide has to be sprayed on the crops due to the lower efficacy.

azulvioleta6

I don't consume much of anything on that list. I grow and can my own tomatoes in glass, I eat salmon that my mother catches in a river, what little non-organic fruit I eat is local with minimal pesticide use, etc.

I do twerk though. Oh noes!

ninerbuff

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

I don't consume much of anything on that list. I grow and can my own tomatoes in glass, I eat salmon that my mother catches in a river, what little non-organic fruit I eat is local with minimal pesticide use, etc.

I do twerk though. Oh noes!

Even if anyone ate "clean", if cancer is hereditary, risk is still higher than someone else who eats "dirty" and has no family history of cancer.

But keep twerking.

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azulvioleta6

ninerbuff wrote: »

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

I don't consume much of anything on that list. I grow and can my own tomatoes in glass, I eat salmon that my mother catches in a river, what little non-organic fruit I eat is local with minimal pesticide use, etc.

I do twerk though. Oh noes!

Even if anyone ate "clean", if cancer is hereditary, risk is still higher than someone else who eats "dirty" and has no family history of cancer.

But keep twerking.

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Hereditary, environmental and simply a function of bad luck.

No cancer in my family, but most of my relatives eat pretty clean. Oh, except for my aunt who lives on potato chips and lunch meat--she had stomach cancer. Not shocking.

I eat fairly clean because that's how I grew up and that's what I like. If there is even a minimal possibility of reducing health risks, why not do what you can?

I shall twerk until I can twerk no more!

goddessofawesome

3laine75 wrote: »

goddessofawesome wrote: »

honkytonks85 wrote: »

I try to avoid most of these things. I think there's some merit to them not being great for you - especially nitrates and smoking meats. I actively attempt to avoid GMOs and hormones. I'm not perfect, but I feel good about reducing my intake of all items on this list (except Alcohol - you can't make me give up the *maybe* 10 glasses of wine I have a year!!)

Why do you avoid GMO's? They are completely safe to eat. I actually go out of my way to avoid organic food.

Completely safe because the FDA said it is?

Sorry but when food is resistant to pests and pesticides it makes me wonder what they're putting in it to make it that way. I'll stick to my heirloom variety plants from my own garden thanks.

And no, GMO is NOT the same as hybrid.

Genes

If it's just "genes" (which I highly doubt) and they're "so safe" why are they banned in most countries?

goddessofawesome

It also makes a lot more sense that the FDA would say "GMO's are safe" since the deputy commissioner is a former Monsanto employee.

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"All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.” -Paracelsus

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