GMO crops still making headlines.

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  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    rhtexasgal wrote: »
    rhtexasgal wrote: »
    All of you that believe that GMOs are safe, that is fine. I will just keep my tin foil hat on, eating fresh, organic whole foods :) This is one topic that we should all agree to disagree about. We can each stay on our own side of the GMO fence and feel that our grass is greener.

    So, just curious, why organic? I get that people who don't understand/trust the science behind GMOs, but I feel like most people who eat organic are doing so based on general misunderstandings. Do you go organic just to make sure you don't eat GMOs? Do you avoid anything created through genetic manipulation such as medications?

    I started eating organic for health reasons. In the beginning, I was just jumping on the organic bandwagon because that is what you "do" to get healthy. However, once I discovered that many of the organic veggies and fruit I was eating tasted better - more flavorful - I added more organic foods to my plate. Plus, I also wanted to avoid the chemical pesticides as much as possible. I currently buy most of my organic produce at my local farmers market so I know the growers. And yes, I have actually visited some of the organic farms to witness first hand the growing practices of what I am eating.

    I firmly believe I put my ulcerative colitis and proctitis into remission by eating whole, organic foods and avoiding processed things and GMOs. I went from one step away from losing my colon to my doctor shaking his head wondering how I achieved remission without all the biologic pharmaceuticals he wanted to put me on. For a while, I was strict with what I ate but after healing, I will be the first to admit that I do indulge in crap foods on occasion.

    @rhtexasgal your doctor's response sounded like mine doctors when I managed my pain by getting off all grains and most all sugars and manage my pain well by diet only and passing on starting the Enbrel injections.

    Thanks for sharing your success story. Where it works for others or not it is awesome when we can help our body fix itself by eating what it needs to heal us.
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I've never noticed a dang thing healthwise when chosing organic whole fruits and vegetables vs. their whole non-organic counterparts.

    I've never felt like I was "cheating" my health by eating a bunch of whole foods that didn't happen to be organic. I am of the opinion, with much peer reviewed science backing my opinion, that there is virtually no nutritional difference between such foods, and no adverse effects from any pesticide residues that MIGHT be there after typical food prep.

  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    ecowatch.com/2015/10/05/european-union-ban-gmos/

    @jgnactca it may just be in my gene pool that I do not to trust the FDA based on the article above.

    Personal observation proves nothing. I would like to see some science about GMO's that is not from the makers of GMO's. I just hope what @rhtexasgal mentioned that could happen 20 years down the road does not happen as it has with corn syrup recently.

    Uh, wasn't corn syrup proven to have almost the exact same chemical makeup as honey? But damn, honey is 'natural', it must be good!
    Considering that corn syrup isn't being removed from things... then no, we're not all 'drugged up because of health conditions caused by' corn syrup. And you call yourself a man of 'science', sigh.

    I react more to mosquito bites than to bee and wasp stings. Clearly my ancestors were honey addicts, unwilling to stop eating honey even though it killed many of their kin.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!

    The drama is real.
  • jmule24
    jmule24 Posts: 1,382 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!

    The drama is real.

    59693960.jpg
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!

    Lot of people would pay for roundup ready grass. Yet no one at Monsanto is working on it - possibly because more than selling more chemicals, they want their product to be effective for increasing crop yields.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    rhtexasgal wrote: »
    All of you that believe that GMOs are safe, that is fine. I will just keep my tin foil hat on, eating fresh, organic whole foods :) This is one topic that we should all agree to disagree about. We can each stay on our own side of the GMO fence and feel that our grass is greener.
    Unlike people who pretend to be curious or interested because they want to fight, I'm genuinely interested here and am not trying to start (nor will I enter into) some crazy online fight.

    What do you think is harmful in the GMO food?

    I don't mean Why do you hate Archer Daniels Midland (or Monsanto or whoever you may or may not hate), but what is it about the food, itself, that worries you?

    I've yet to see anyone explain why they avoid these foods based on the foods themselves.

    If there is something we should know, please share it. I don't mean that in a mean way. It is unfortunate that I always have to add these disclaimers, lol, but I know people ask questions all the time because they want to fight about the answers. Really not doing that. :)



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  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    senecarr wrote: »
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!

    Lot of people would pay for roundup ready grass. Yet no one at Monsanto is working on it - possibly because more than selling more chemicals, they want their product to be effective for increasing crop yields.

    Farmers would agree with Monsanto and their work. We aren't making any more farmland.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    jmule24 wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    But but. . . .what about the roundup you killed your weeds with?!? Lawdy, than the chicken eats the grass, and you eat the eggs?!? NO!!!!!!!!!

    The drama is real.

    59693960.jpg


    Nobody goes full tinfoil.....on Friday....in October.....on MFP.....only mean people do :open_mouth:
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,401 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    SpongeBob Monopoly is even better!!

    Yeah. That game is a hoot. Just don't play Monsanto Monopoly, you can die playing that game!




    Seriously though people.... props for most of you not getting too personal, but a couple of you are just offending one another for pages. Accept that what works for you might not work for the next person. Just my thoughts with limited time. I'll weigh in later on my personal opinion, knowing that it's just that... opinion.
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  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    true - companies donate millions a year to the federal government
    you cannot trust anyone
    coke (diet coke) is a good example
    the studies on asparartame are funded by money from coke and pepsi industries themselves
    private people do not pay for studies

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary#latest

    The person you are replying to thinks kitchen aid mixers make a person obese.
  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    Simply put. Organic= labeled, pay to be certified. Non-organic= label as such.. May contain GMOs, or yada yada yada. There would be no fees.

    But non organic can be GMO free too.
  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....
    Mine too.
  • jan3t85
    jan3t85 Posts: 36 Member
    You made my day! ❤
    kkenseth wrote: »
    true - companies donate millions a year to the federal government
    you cannot trust anyone
    coke (diet coke) is a good example
    the studies on asparartame are funded by money from coke and pepsi industries themselves
    private people do not pay for studies

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary#latest

  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    cmtigger wrote: »
    Simply put. Organic= labeled, pay to be certified. Non-organic= label as such.. May contain GMOs, or yada yada yada. There would be no fees.

    But non organic can be GMO free too.

    And if the producers of non-organic, GMO-free products would like to voluntarily incur the cost of labeling their products as such, they are free to do so.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    jan3t85 wrote: »
    You made my day! ❤
    kkenseth wrote: »
    true - companies donate millions a year to the federal government
    you cannot trust anyone
    coke (diet coke) is a good example
    the studies on asparartame are funded by money from coke and pepsi industries themselves
    private people do not pay for studies

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary#latest

    I'm glad! I didn't come up with it...just sharing.
  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    auddii wrote: »

    When you say that GMOs are completely different than mutation breeding makes me think you don't understand GMOs.

    I'm sorry, but the previous poster was correct. GMOs involve creating organisms that cannot actually exist in nature, no matter how many thousands of years you give them to breed, mutate, and change, no matter what direction people might try to direct that breeding. They are distinctly different than organisms created through hybridization, evolution, or cross-pollinating.

    "genetic engineering is the process of breaking the natural boundaries that exist between species to produce new life forms that will produce a variety of desired traits. For example, genes from salmon can be spliced into tomatoes to make them more resistant to cold weather."
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/hybrid/getinvolved_article.php

    Things like a lemur cat (a GMO cross between a lemur and a cat, made solely for wealthy women to have as pets) or a fern spider (a GMO which is a cross of a type of tarantula and a ponga fern) is never, ever going to happen in nature.


    I have a problem with GMO's not because I think they are bad for human health but because there is very little testing done on them by unbiased sources to look at safety issues for people or the environment. If they are safe and useful (like the golden rice project type of useful) then great. But we really have very little idea, because the regulatory bodies that should be policing this are not doing that great on it.

    A movie like Jurassic Park may be fun to watch, but it's not so fun to live through a situation where genetically created organisms that haven't existed in our planet's history are created and, instead of being isolated, are put in positions where the chances of contaminating the environment around them is pretty high. They're putting them right in the middle of our fields where they can spread and impact the environment, and we don't actually know what that impact will be. Because they can and do spread, even in cases where they are supposed to not be able to reproduce, or 'shouldn't' have spread (like with GMO wheat: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/26/351785294/gmo-wheat-investigation-closed-but-another-one-opens )

    And in some cases, if they do spread, we DO know that it could have some serious impact - http://organicconnectmag.com/project/examining-the-true-risks-of-gmo-salmon/

    There is slowly growing concern over the lack of research involved in some GMO usage and its environmental impact. As an example, in 2010, a federal judge revoked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) approval for GMO sugar beet seed in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety on the basis that the agency violated the law by failing to perform a full environmental impact statement for the seed. Nothing happened, however. Monsanto had cornered the market and there weren't enough non-GMO sugar beet seeds to use by the farmers. The estimated reduction in crops was ruled to be high enough that the USDA allowed farmers to plant GM sugar beets anyway.

    And one environmental impact that is now recognized is increasingly herbicide resistant weeds due to GMO herbicide resistant crops. (There is a National Research Council report on this, but unfortunately you have to purchase it to read it - http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/ )

    I think that our scientists could come up with some amazing things in terms of GMOs, and many may be perfectly safe for people to use and eat. But we have to figure out their impact before we start putting them into our environment, and we just aren't doing a great job on that.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    shaumom wrote: »
    auddii wrote: »

    When you say that GMOs are completely different than mutation breeding makes me think you don't understand GMOs.

    I'm sorry, but the previous poster was correct. GMOs involve creating organisms that cannot actually exist in nature, no matter how many thousands of years you give them to breed, mutate, and change, no matter what direction people might try to direct that breeding. They are distinctly different than organisms created through hybridization, evolution, or cross-pollinating.

    "genetic engineering is the process of breaking the natural boundaries that exist between species to produce new life forms that will produce a variety of desired traits. For example, genes from salmon can be spliced into tomatoes to make them more resistant to cold weather."
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/hybrid/getinvolved_article.php

    Things like a lemur cat (a GMO cross between a lemur and a cat, made solely for wealthy women to have as pets) or a fern spider (a GMO which is a cross of a type of tarantula and a ponga fern) is never, ever going to happen in nature.


    I have a problem with GMO's not because I think they are bad for human health but because there is very little testing done on them by unbiased sources to look at safety issues for people or the environment. If they are safe and useful (like the golden rice project type of useful) then great. But we really have very little idea, because the regulatory bodies that should be policing this are not doing that great on it.

    A movie like Jurassic Park may be fun to watch, but it's not so fun to live through a situation where genetically created organisms that haven't existed in our planet's history are created and, instead of being isolated, are put in positions where the chances of contaminating the environment around them is pretty high. They're putting them right in the middle of our fields where they can spread and impact the environment, and we don't actually know what that impact will be. Because they can and do spread, even in cases where they are supposed to not be able to reproduce, or 'shouldn't' have spread (like with GMO wheat: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/26/351785294/gmo-wheat-investigation-closed-but-another-one-opens )

    And in some cases, if they do spread, we DO know that it could have some serious impact - http://organicconnectmag.com/project/examining-the-true-risks-of-gmo-salmon/

    There is slowly growing concern over the lack of research involved in some GMO usage and its environmental impact. As an example, in 2010, a federal judge revoked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) approval for GMO sugar beet seed in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety on the basis that the agency violated the law by failing to perform a full environmental impact statement for the seed. Nothing happened, however. Monsanto had cornered the market and there weren't enough non-GMO sugar beet seeds to use by the farmers. The estimated reduction in crops was ruled to be high enough that the USDA allowed farmers to plant GM sugar beets anyway.

    And one environmental impact that is now recognized is increasingly herbicide resistant weeds due to GMO herbicide resistant crops. (There is a National Research Council report on this, but unfortunately you have to purchase it to read it - http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/ )

    I think that our scientists could come up with some amazing things in terms of GMOs, and many may be perfectly safe for people to use and eat. But we have to figure out their impact before we start putting them into our environment, and we just aren't doing a great job on that.

    Nope. You need science based evidence or this is fear mongering from you. PBS, NPR and some organic mag website is not fact.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    shaumom wrote: »
    auddii wrote: »

    When you say that GMOs are completely different than mutation breeding makes me think you don't understand GMOs.

    I'm sorry, but the previous poster was correct. GMOs involve creating organisms that cannot actually exist in nature, no matter how many thousands of years you give them to breed, mutate, and change, no matter what direction people might try to direct that breeding. They are distinctly different than organisms created through hybridization, evolution, or cross-pollinating.

    "genetic engineering is the process of breaking the natural boundaries that exist between species to produce new life forms that will produce a variety of desired traits. For example, genes from salmon can be spliced into tomatoes to make them more resistant to cold weather."
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/hybrid/getinvolved_article.php

    Things like a lemur cat (a GMO cross between a lemur and a cat, made solely for wealthy women to have as pets) or a fern spider (a GMO which is a cross of a type of tarantula and a ponga fern) is never, ever going to happen in nature.


    I have a problem with GMO's not because I think they are bad for human health but because there is very little testing done on them by unbiased sources to look at safety issues for people or the environment. If they are safe and useful (like the golden rice project type of useful) then great. But we really have very little idea, because the regulatory bodies that should be policing this are not doing that great on it.

    A movie like Jurassic Park may be fun to watch, but it's not so fun to live through a situation where genetically created organisms that haven't existed in our planet's history are created and, instead of being isolated, are put in positions where the chances of contaminating the environment around them is pretty high. They're putting them right in the middle of our fields where they can spread and impact the environment, and we don't actually know what that impact will be. Because they can and do spread, even in cases where they are supposed to not be able to reproduce, or 'shouldn't' have spread (like with GMO wheat: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/26/351785294/gmo-wheat-investigation-closed-but-another-one-opens )

    And in some cases, if they do spread, we DO know that it could have some serious impact - http://organicconnectmag.com/project/examining-the-true-risks-of-gmo-salmon/

    There is slowly growing concern over the lack of research involved in some GMO usage and its environmental impact. As an example, in 2010, a federal judge revoked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) approval for GMO sugar beet seed in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety on the basis that the agency violated the law by failing to perform a full environmental impact statement for the seed. Nothing happened, however. Monsanto had cornered the market and there weren't enough non-GMO sugar beet seeds to use by the farmers. The estimated reduction in crops was ruled to be high enough that the USDA allowed farmers to plant GM sugar beets anyway.

    And one environmental impact that is now recognized is increasingly herbicide resistant weeds due to GMO herbicide resistant crops. (There is a National Research Council report on this, but unfortunately you have to purchase it to read it - http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/ )

    I think that our scientists could come up with some amazing things in terms of GMOs, and many may be perfectly safe for people to use and eat. But we have to figure out their impact before we start putting them into our environment, and we just aren't doing a great job on that.

    Sorry, nope. Transgenics happen in nature. Genes do transfer across species. You, as a human being, are a transgenic organism.
    And if that is the issue, why are cisgenic organisms treated the same as GMOs?
    The 2010 lawsuit is about court posturing, not science.

    I have serious problems with anti-GMO sources can't get their story straight with salmon. Either the gene will flourish and spread, or it would be detrimental to the salmon population - it can't do both! Genes that are detrimental don't spread! That's how evolution works. If your genes make something worse at surviving the genes diminish in the population. If the genes spread, it can only be because they have a positive benefit for the organism.

    Herbicide resistance is not a surprise. Anti-GMO people act like it is a huge surprise to scientists that products that make an herbicide more useful would cause more weeds to resist it. Sorry, you don't get to that level of biology to do transgenics and not know about natural selection. The only surprises have been in the timelines of how quickly they have developed herbicide resistance.
    What cheeses me off is that I've seen people who are the most intellectually honest anti-GMO people try to deceive people about herbicide resistance. On the IQ debates one scientists talked about super weeds and about how they break equipment - except that has nothing to do with herbicide resistance! That is resistance to the mechanical removal from generations of being mechanically removed. It didn't show up because of using herbicides. Spray herbicides do the opposite if anything - they encourage evolution for herbicide chemical resistance and cause resistance to mechanical weeding to become a waste of energy.
  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member

    shaumom wrote: »
    auddii wrote: »

    When you say that GMOs are completely different than mutation breeding makes me think you don't understand GMOs.

    I'm sorry, but the previous poster was correct. GMOs involve creating organisms that cannot actually exist in nature, no matter how many thousands of years you give them to breed, mutate, and change, no matter what direction people might try to direct that breeding. They are distinctly different than organisms created through hybridization, evolution, or cross-pollinating.

    "genetic engineering is the process of breaking the natural boundaries that exist between species to produce new life forms that will produce a variety of desired traits. For example, genes from salmon can be spliced into tomatoes to make them more resistant to cold weather."
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/hybrid/getinvolved_article.php

    Things like a lemur cat (a GMO cross between a lemur and a cat, made solely for wealthy women to have as pets) or a fern spider (a GMO which is a cross of a type of tarantula and a ponga fern) is never, ever going to happen in nature.


    I have a problem with GMO's not because I think they are bad for human health but because there is very little testing done on them by unbiased sources to look at safety issues for people or the environment. If they are safe and useful (like the golden rice project type of useful) then great. But we really have very little idea, because the regulatory bodies that should be policing this are not doing that great on it.

    A movie like Jurassic Park may be fun to watch, but it's not so fun to live through a situation where genetically created organisms that haven't existed in our planet's history are created and, instead of being isolated, are put in positions where the chances of contaminating the environment around them is pretty high. They're putting them right in the middle of our fields where they can spread and impact the environment, and we don't actually know what that impact will be. Because they can and do spread, even in cases where they are supposed to not be able to reproduce, or 'shouldn't' have spread (like with GMO wheat: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/26/351785294/gmo-wheat-investigation-closed-but-another-one-opens )

    And in some cases, if they do spread, we DO know that it could have some serious impact - http://organicconnectmag.com/project/examining-the-true-risks-of-gmo-salmon/

    There is slowly growing concern over the lack of research involved in some GMO usage and its environmental impact. As an example, in 2010, a federal judge revoked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) approval for GMO sugar beet seed in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety on the basis that the agency violated the law by failing to perform a full environmental impact statement for the seed. Nothing happened, however. Monsanto had cornered the market and there weren't enough non-GMO sugar beet seeds to use by the farmers. The estimated reduction in crops was ruled to be high enough that the USDA allowed farmers to plant GM sugar beets anyway.

    And one environmental impact that is now recognized is increasingly herbicide resistant weeds due to GMO herbicide resistant crops. (There is a National Research Council report on this, but unfortunately you have to purchase it to read it - http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/ )

    I think that our scientists could come up with some amazing things in terms of GMOs, and many may be perfectly safe for people to use and eat. But we have to figure out their impact before we start putting them into our environment, and we just aren't doing a great job on that.
    There are a lot of traditional crosses that have been done by humans that never would happen in the wild, and many domestic plants and animals that would not survive in the wild too.

    As for the invasive species worry- that's not just an issue of GMOs, it's an issue of any plant. In my own yard I deal with three- vinca, scotch broom, and Himalayan blackberries. If you want to worry about invasive species that is fine, but they are not something specific to GMOs, and is really just an issue with all plants and animals. Don't blame GMOs, blame people who let the plants/pests escape or didn't make sure that they didn't transport them. (Like the clams that are a problem at Tahoe, because hobby boaters didn't clean their boats between sites.)
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,401 Member
    shaumom wrote: »


    I have a problem with GMO's not because I think they are bad for human health but because there is very little testing done on them by unbiased sources to look at safety issues for people or the environment. If they are safe and useful (like the golden rice project type of useful) then great. But we really have very little idea, because the regulatory bodies that should be policing this are not doing that great on it.

    I'm not going to get into the debate about which sources of evidence are more accurate, but overall I like that you seem open minded about the discussion regardless. And that is why I snipped everything but the above paragraph.

    There are a number of major humanitarian organizations that have openly stated that without GMO's, we would have never produced enough food to feed the world. At this point we have excess food, and the problems are logistics. I personally consider this a useful purpose. And thought I have not found any evidence to support it, even if GMO crops did have negative effects on a human, it certainly could be no more negative than starving to death.


    And I'd gladly dig up some links to support the above about food volume if anyone is interested.

  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    IdoScience wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    rhtexasgal wrote: »
    All of you that believe that GMOs are safe, that is fine. I will just keep my tin foil hat on, eating fresh, organic whole foods :) This is one topic that we should all agree to disagree about. We can each stay on our own side of the GMO fence and feel that our grass is greener.
    Unlike people who pretend to be curious or interested because they want to fight, I'm genuinely interested here and am not trying to start (nor will I enter into) some crazy online fight.

    What do you think is harmful in the GMO food?

    I don't mean Why do you hate Archer Daniels Midland (or Monsanto or whoever you may or may not hate), but what is it about the food, itself, that worries you?

    I've yet to see anyone explain why they avoid these foods based on the foods themselves.

    If there is something we should know, please share it. I don't mean that in a mean way. It is unfortunate that I always have to add these disclaimers, lol, but I know people ask questions all the time because they want to fight about the answers. Really not doing that. :)


    From the majority (ie "weight of evidence") science I have seen, GMO's are safe.
    The bolded above seems really passive aggressive, snarky and almost seems like it is inviting a response. I hope this forum is not full of these types

    You nailed it ! @IdoScience
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    so now we're creating non-feathered velociraptors that were much larger than they existed in nature by adding a gene that allows a plant to break down glyphosphate?
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    HonuNui wrote: »
    "A. What chicken eats grass?"
    I need to make an important contribution to this thread:
    MY chickens think that freshly mown grass thrown into their coop is nectar direct from the gods.....

    I freeze grass clippings to give the chickens in Winter. It's a nice treat for them when everything green is covered in snow.
  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    I believe that a free market benefits everyone. If companies want to use GMO ingredients that is fine with me.

    I also believe consumers have the right to know what ingredients are in a product they buy. Mandatory labeling laws would give everyone what they want.

    Manufacturers can use the ingredients and consumers can choose if they want to buy products with those ingredients.

    Unfortunately the manufacturers don't want you to know the ingredients and pay millions of dollars to politician to prevent mandatory fair labeling laws.
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