GMO Labeling?

Are you arguing that companies genetically modified food to make it addictive which is the only reason you and your adult children are overweight?

I'd like to see GMO labeling, but I don't just want a "GMO PRODUCT OMG!!!!" sticker. I'd like to know WHAT the modification/s was/were. Genetically modified doesn't always equal bad to me. It would just be nice to be able to make an informed decision.

Are you arguing that companies genetically modified food to make it addictive which is the only reason you and your adult children are overweight?

I clearly stated "I can't help but feel it is IN PART to the crap that our FDA and USDA allow to be called food." I made the mistake of thinking anything produced as food was ok to be eating. My fault for not investigating and knowing better.

I point to this for more info on how, yes GMO's are addicting. http://gmo-awareness.com/

Nothing on that site pointed towards how GMO's are addictive (closest is an article explaining how the extra sugar and fat in processed food makes it more addictive. No duh). Any peer reviewed scientific studies say they are? I'll just wait here. I'm sure that you will deliver, OP.

:huh: blaming being overweight on something other than calorie surplus or a medical condition? This ought to be good.

I'm sorry, did I do that? No I did not. But GMO's are a factor in our weight gain.
You sound a bit like a hater... bye, bye. Best Wishes to you.

Oh yeah, I must be a hater or a bully or whatever because I choose personal responsibility over placing blame onto the food industry. :ohwell:

I am with you 100%! I try my best to avoid anything genetically modified when I can, but it's difficult (especially for me being a student - organic food is a lot more expensive).

Also, you will probably end up with a lot of haters on this site - ignore them. I get the impression that most of them are aiming to be body builders to an extent, thus still eat most of the foods that are modified. That is more than likely over-generalizing, but that's what I've seen so far. Either way, ignore the hate, because it's rampant. There is more than enough evidence out there that anyone can Google it, find it, and make an informed decision on it without being an *kitten*-hat.

Feel free to friend me! I would love to have support and give support to a fellow non-GMO/GMO labeling supporter.

You do realize that almost everything you eat has been genetically modified in some way, shape, or form, correct? Either bred for flavor, longevity, or other factors. We have been doing it since the dawn of time. We took one crop that was really good, and tried to make sure that crop pollinated our other crops. It's kind of how wheat became our staple crop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#History

I'd like to see GMO labeling, but I don't just want a "GMO PRODUCT OMG!!!!" sticker. I'd like to know WHAT the modification/s was/were. Genetically modified doesn't always equal bad to me. It would just be nice to be able to make an informed decision.

I would sign onto this.

I wish you luck with this OP, this sounds like it can benefit society as a whole, however due to corporate greed and the powerful wanting to control us, who knows how far we can go. At least with this idea going thru, we can stop blaming others and taking responsibility for our own actions on what we eat.

I am with you 100%! I try my best to avoid anything genetically modified when I can, but it's difficult (especially for me being a student - organic food is a lot more expensive).

Also, you will probably end up with a lot of haters on this site - ignore them. I get the impression that most of them are aiming to be body builders to an extent, thus still eat most of the foods that are modified. That is more than likely over-generalizing, but that's what I've seen so far. Either way, ignore the hate, because it's rampant. There is more than enough evidence out there that anyone can Google it, find it, and make an informed decision on it without being an *kitten*-hat.

Feel free to friend me! I would love to have support and give support to a fellow non-GMO/GMO labeling supporter.

You do realize that almost everything you eat has been genetically modified in some way, shape, or form, correct? Either bred for flavor, longevity, or other factors. We have been doing it since the dawn of time. We took one crop that was really good, and tried to make sure that crop pollinated our other crops. It's kind of how wheat became our staple crop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#History

Oh, I am more than aware. If I wasn't aware, I probably wouldn't consider it such a big problem with the non-labeling of foods. But since the dawn of time? Not at all - I think you are confusing genetically modifying foods (ie. adding a gene that does not exist in that variety to it to make it resistant to pesticides) with - what I am completely drawing a blank of the correct term - humans understanding dominant and recessive gene traits in plants and selectively breeding them in such a way as to bring out the traits that make the plants stronger. From my understanding, that is how wild grass became a wheat.

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You do realize that almost everything you eat has been genetically modified in some way, shape, or form, correct? Either bred for flavor, longevity, or other factors. We have been doing it since the dawn of time. We took one crop that was really good, and tried to make sure that crop pollinated our other crops. It's kind of how wheat became our staple crop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#History
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Actually, this is not true, and is why many people are in favor of labeling (I am as well, and am not interested in getting into the debate about whether they are addicting, make one fat, etc., I would just like to be able to make an informed decision about my food.). However, to be clear, there is a large difference between a GMO food and a food that has been bred for certain traits. You are entirely correct that we have been "breeding" food for generations, a process that essentially entails an interference with a plant's reproductive cycle, so that we can breed for certain traits. A great example is corn: taking the reproductive pollen from a plant with traits you like, and dusting it over the seeds of other plants, to "breed" for that trait. Is there a certain level of artificiality in this? Yes. But it still uses the reproductive process of nature to make the desired shift.

A GMO plant, on the other hand, has been modified in a laboratory, and injected with a genetic strain often from a completely different species. It's a process that involves actual cell invasion, so as to implant the desired genetic code in the plant's DNA. Often, this is done by using viruses, which are good at invading cells, E-Coli is often used for example. A lab tech will inject the desired string of DNA into an E-Coli virus, and then insert this virus into the cells of a plant. The virus will do what it's good at, which is invade the cell, and thus deliver the desired new genetic material. This is a VERY different process from that described above, and many studies have already shown possible negative side effects of GMO plants.

The example you use of wheat is actually a perfect example because while we have been breeding wheat for certain traits for ages, it has not yet been approved as a GMO. There are some field tests of GMO wheat in the US, but none has been approved for sale and human consumption.

Please make your own decisions about what you eat, me: I'm against GMOs and for labeling, but make sure that you're making them with all the facts in hand.

I am with you 100%! I try my best to avoid anything genetically modified when I can, but it's difficult (especially for me being a student - organic food is a lot more expensive).

Also, you will probably end up with a lot of haters on this site - ignore them. I get the impression that most of them are aiming to be body builders to an extent, thus still eat most of the foods that are modified. That is more than likely over-generalizing, but that's what I've seen so far. Either way, ignore the hate, because it's rampant. There is more than enough evidence out there that anyone can Google it, find it, and make an informed decision on it without being an *kitten*-hat.

Feel free to friend me! I would love to have support and give support to a fellow non-GMO/GMO labeling supporter.

You do realize that almost everything you eat has been genetically modified in some way, shape, or form, correct? Either bred for flavor, longevity, or other factors. We have been doing it since the dawn of time. We took one crop that was really good, and tried to make sure that crop pollinated our other crops. It's kind of how wheat became our staple crop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#History

Oh, I am more than aware. If I wasn't aware, I probably wouldn't consider it such a big problem with the non-labeling of foods. But since the dawn of time? Not at all - I think you are confusing genetically modifying foods (ie. adding a gene that does not exist in that variety to it to make it resistant to pesticides) with - what I am completely drawing a blank of the correct term - humans understanding dominant and recessive gene traits in plants and selectively breeding them in such a way as to bring out the traits that make the plants stronger. From my understanding, that is how wild grass became a wheat.

Yeah those are essentially the same thing. We aren't "splicing" things that could never exist in the plant. We find the gene that we want, turn it on, then breed it. That way, we don't have to spend generations upon generations until we get a plant with the "purebred" version of the gene. That's really all that we are doing.

And to OP, you keep posting random websites, but none of them have peer reviewed scientific studies? Can you please point me towards peer reviewed scientific studies?