Say NO to GMOs in Your Food

Townhall.com ^ | June 4, 2013 | Chuck Norris

[surroundedbyblue]

And stuffing THAT many chickens into cages breeds diseases & infections that can only be controlled with antibiotics. Furthermore, how many of those chickens have been fed growth hormones so that they are ready to “harvest” at a younger age?

Little girls are starting their periods in kindergarten & boys are growing boobs while becoming increasingly more effeminate. You’re totally convinced beyond a doubt that the administration of these drugs in the food chain has no impact on human health?? Rrrrriiiiight.

You can keep your Frankenchickens. I’ll take a natural, free-range bird any day.

[mmichaels1970]

Genetically modified crops constitute 93 percent of soy, 86 percent of corn and 93 percent of canola seeds planted in the U.S., and are used in about 70 percent of American processed food.

So we should simply burn all of that, retill the land, and start over?

[surroundedbyblue]

Do your own reasearch and use some commonsense.

[Mr. Lucky]

So, then, God dislikes hybrid seeds? They won’t reproduce to kind, but lots of GMO seeds will.

[tbpiper]

Folks protest GMOs are the typical population control crowd.

Bullsh*t. Most are people who want to make their own choices about the food they eat. It's not population control but real food safety and sovereignty.

[dalereed]

You people are nuttier than a fruiitcake!

[bert]

There is no such thing as a natural diet in the present.

There are no current foods sold in stores that are not the result of genetic manipulation.

[Carry_Okie]

The problem is that “GMO” varies considerably in relative risk. Some modifications are totally benign, a transfer of genes from within the genus for reasons of productivity. What is the problem with a fruit tree designed to bear at a particular time of year?

[Kaslin]

Hey, I didn’t write the article, I only posted it

[Daffynition]

[Aussiebabe]

What scares me is how Greenpeace/Sierra Club propaganda has infiltrated FR over the past few years. The same people who publish these so-called non-peer reviewed science studies (to be generous), are the same people who push the man-made global warming agenda. This is one of the progressive favourite agenda who want to push down population growth, especially in Africa and in the third world.

[artichokegrower]

Opinion of that noted agronomist, agricultural biologist and plant geneticist Chuck Norris.

[surroundedbyblue]

Define natural?? I don’t eat processed foods whose ingredient lust I can’t pronounce. The food I eat either came from the ground or had a mother. And the stuff that came from the ground is organic & non-GMO. The meat I buy is grass fed, free range, or wild caught fish. I don’t eat beef that’s been fed corn (GMO) because its high in omega 6, I don’t buy farm-raised fish because its filthy & laden with pharmaceuticals, and I eat free range chicken for the same reason.

[surroundedbyblue]

Um, wrong. The people creating & pushing GMOs are the progressives & the population control antagonists. Just look who is invested in Monsanto, how their lobby spends its $$, and where their political affiliations lie.

I’ll give you a hint: follow the money and you’ll find George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and......wait for it....
Barack Obama.

[tiki]

You hit the nail on the head.

[Rockingham]

I once believed as you do, but gradually came to realize that there is a credible scientific case for greater caution in regard to GMO foods, both as to their environmental impacts and as to their effects on human health. Notably, with the potential of safe and reliable traditional breeding techniques to improve crop yields not yet been exhausted, it should not be thought that the choice is between GMOs and starvation.

[muawiyah]

WILD VIRUSES ~ for example West Nile Virus ~ you want it, you can have it ~ truly free Free Range Chickens will give it to you at no extra charge.

[tiki]

And the biggest misunderstanding is that the seeds are sterile, they aren’t, but they belong to the company and you can’t replant them without the threat of being sued.

[muawiyah]

There's a bacteria in South America that is constantly at work creating new species of insects. It works the old fashioned way by changing the shape of their sex organs.

There are various molds, fungi and bacteria at work constantly reworking plant genomes. Then there's hard radiation from outerspace ~ hits this place all the time ~ sometimes it zip zaps the reproductive regions and there you go ~ another species, or variety, or harmful mutation!

[muawiyah]

i understand all of that ~ but what did the farmers imaging they were purchasing ~ they are given all the information up front.