Posted on 12/07/2017 4:01:09 PM PST by Kaslin
Objections to GMOs has led to millions of deaths from starvation.
, a careful review of the literature suggests there is very little evidence to support any of the claims
The human body is INCREDIBLY adaptable and resilient.
Yes I’ll say it again :)
I was told 10 years ago that any improvement from a head injury would occur in the next 2 years. That was IT!
10 years later and another residual symptom has stopped recently.
GMOs will not be the downfall of the human race.
We’ve faced worse and adapted.
Why mess with God’s Creation in this way? Much healthier to eat unadulterated foods.
freedumb2003, is this your opinion you are posting, or do you have any documentation of this claim?
I’m not particularly concerned about health effects from GMO foods.
But, I really don’t like how so many are tasteless. Sacrifice flavor for extended shelf life. Is it worth it? Decide for yourselves...
As an organic farmer, I agree with your line of thinking.
HOWEVER, I think the ‘horrors’ of glysophate, which is just a very high concentration of SALT, are overblown.
OMG! Why couldn’t *I* have patented Round-Up AGES ago? Grandma used a mixture of salt and boiling vinegar to kill the weeds in her garden and in the cracks of the sidewalk! Arrest her for harming Mudder Erf!
*SMIRK*
If the EnviroWeenies get their way, we’ll ALL starve to death, the REST of the world, included. Well, those parts that aren’t ALREADY starving due to Evil Dictatorships and such. Control the food supply, control the people, Eh, Comrades? ;)
But I’ll be fine. I know how to grow food, hunt, fish, butcher, preserve, make my own sourdough starter and I can bake bread from scratch; when it all goes to h#ll, I shall reign supreme! They will build monuments to me and my loaves, LOL! :)
P.S. I’m kinda looking forward to that, so don’t screw it up for me! ;)
Oh, “organisms”, read that wrong the 1st time.
Opinion but I can reconstruct my reasoning.
If you need it let me know.
My flight has been delayed 2 times and I will be getting home 5 hours after my original time and I am flagging a bit.
“Sacrifice flavor for extended shelf life. Is it worth it? Decide for yourselves...”
It sure isn’t worth it when it comes to tomatoes! I ate our last heirloom tomato, ‘Cherokee Purple’ two weeks ago in a BLT.
And then I put out the word that other than in pasta sauce and salsa that I canned this summer, there would be NO fresh tomatoes until late July of next year...as I do every year. ;)
I REFUSE to buy those red-painted tennis balls they sell as ‘tomatoes’ the remainder of the Fall, Winter and Spring! Blech!
“GM foods have not been around long enough to determine whether they have harmful long-term health effects on humans.”
Talk about a stupid statement to promote GMOs.
Well, what if they do. Irreparable damage will have been done.
A man whom I greatly respect, norman Borlaug, who pioneered higher yielding crops in poor soil to feed the world using traditional cross-pollination has gone over to the GMO side.
It bothers me because I share in growing GMO corn and soybeans and wonder if I should get out of it, not that there are viable alternatives in the area. My partner wouldn't revert to the older crops, looked into it extensively before he went over to it, and it requires a change in methods, seeds and chemicals as the article says.
We are small, don't irrigate, not enough ground water to irrigate with, generally adequate rainfall and water retention in soil, apply fall fertilizer, but yields are everything to stay competitive. Other farmers around the country are going for high yields, and it causes surpluses on the market which has driven prices down. Further affecting the market are Argentina now competes, our trade with Mexico who has bought a lot of our corn is being renegotiated (overall a plus imo), Russia won't use GMO along with much of Europe, plus the sanctions on Russia affect exporters of American food leaving primarily China and Japan for export. Also many farmers are putting more ground into soybeans because they yield less per acre but tend to bring higher prices per bushes; i.e., more cost and profit effective.
Label the foods and let the public decide what to purchase.
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GM foods have not been around long enough to determine whether they have harmful long-term health effects on humans.
Humans have been consuming GM foods since we invented agriculture. It is, in fact, quite difficult to find non GMO foods.
Our techniques have improved greatly in the last few decades, but we've been genetically modifying foods for millennia.
Every single bite of food you put in your mouth has been genetically modified one way or the other.
Every single bite.
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Besides, what would they do with all the free EBT food folks pick up at Walmart.
“oilseed rape”
Too soon to tell how this will be affected by the departure of Sen. Franken.
I really like Campari tomatoes. Don’t know if they’re GMO or not, but I’ll buy them whenever they’re on sale for $1/lb...which isn’t very often.
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