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McDonald's Says No to Simplot's GMO Potato
NBC News ^ | November 15, 2014 | The Associated Press

Posted on 11/15/2014 3:28:37 PM PST by Bettyprob

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato. But one of the company's oldest business partners — McDonald's — hasn't.

The fast-food giant says it doesn't use genetically modified potatoes, the Idaho Statesman reported. "McDonald's USA does not source GMO potatoes, nor do we have current plans to change our sourcing practices," the company said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: fastfood; gmo; ibtz; idaho; mcdonalds; potato; potatoes; simpleton; simplot; usda
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To: apoliticalone
Seems counter to common sense of any parent.

Yes, common sense is in short supply on this thread. So is a basic understanding of chemistry and human nutrition. Your fear of chemicals would be lessened if you would take a basic course in nutrition. It might also temper your anti-capitalist tirades. Or not.

101 posted on 11/16/2014 10:48:15 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: driftdiver
Amazing how you pricks are so dismissive over something so fundamentally important as the food supply.

No, what's truly amazing is how someone so clueless when it comes to food could continuously spout the same ignorance on these threads over and over again.

We're dismissive of your emotions because you never offer facts, only emotions. How you manage to get out of bed in the morning and make it though the day with all your fears is a wonder.

102 posted on 11/16/2014 10:53:11 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Esad


103 posted on 11/16/2014 10:53:47 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Mase

Just because you say something doesn’t make it true. In fact based on your history if you’re saying it then it’s probably a lie.


104 posted on 11/16/2014 10:55:16 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Sorry, couldn’t hear you over all your sobbing.


105 posted on 11/16/2014 10:57:22 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Yep spoken like a true patriot who respects the rights of all individuals. /s


106 posted on 11/16/2014 11:16:22 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

I will fight to the death for your right to overpay for organic vegetables. Even if you’re a whiny pussy.


107 posted on 11/16/2014 11:22:18 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

You make such a convincing argument. So full of class and intelligence. I bet your mom is so proud when she looks at you. Not to mention you’re kids who can look at your example and know just what a lowlife gutter scum they have for a father.


108 posted on 11/16/2014 11:26:45 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
Whiner says what?

Look, if unlabeled food makes you wet your pants, buy organic already. Stop your uneducated whining.

You sound like a liberal.

109 posted on 11/16/2014 11:29:04 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Daddy please get up out of the gutter. I want to be proud of you and can’t when u are like this.

Says your kid


110 posted on 11/16/2014 11:33:29 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

111 posted on 11/16/2014 11:39:54 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Mase

Buzz off meatstick


112 posted on 11/16/2014 11:43:10 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

You think you’re insulting me. In reality you are showing the world what type of person you are. You’re also showing God.

Bless you, have a great life and I pray you change before facing judgement.


113 posted on 11/16/2014 11:47:34 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Bettyprob

They use to be a great American Company. However, that is NO MORE.

NEVER FORGET...

McDonald’s pushed hard for Obamacare, BUT THEN asked to be exempt from the law.

McDonald’s is NOT food. It’s just garbage designed to get you sick. Avoid it like the plague.


114 posted on 11/16/2014 11:52:54 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: driftdiver
You think you’re insulting me.

Pointing out your whining is an insult?

In reality you are showing the world what type of person you are. You’re also showing God.

To: Toddsterpatriot

Esad

103 posted on Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:53:47 PM by driftdiver


115 posted on 11/16/2014 11:59:58 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

You’re like that dog crap on the bottom of my shoe. It stinks and it just won’t go away.


116 posted on 11/16/2014 12:02:41 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: dennisw
LOL.

dennisw and driftdiver at the same time? The shallow end of the gene pool must be demanding representation.

117 posted on 11/16/2014 12:18:33 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Lizavetta

Lizavetta,

GMO is changing the DNA of a seed. In contains Glyphosate (Which Is Round Up For Your Lawn At Your Local Home Depot or Lowe’s) that keeps the bugs off of it. So when you are eating GMOS... you are eating low doses of Round Up that people sprary on their lawn to kill grass, weeds, etc... Oh but the companies, like Monsantos, say it’s safe because you are only getting small ammounts of it. Kind of like Arsenic in small ammounts. And people wonder why Cancer is exploding in our crountry???

While the hybrid seeds are the RNA of a seed. So science is coming up with with new food. It would be the equivalennt of mixing say a Spider with a Monkey, but on a food level....

The RNA change allows bio techs to come up with new grown food that God never put on this planet. It’s the food version of “The Island of Dr. Moreau”.

I prefer the food that we ate, World Wide, as far back as time can go all the way up until 1994 when the first GMOs came out. Then it all changed....... The way we made food then , prior to 1994, is call “Organic” today. When you buy Organic, then you are buying food that is not substitised by the American Tax payer. Thus, you are seeing the true price of food. The only reason why the GMOs are cheaper is because the food industry receives money to keep the prices lower.

Both GMO/Hybrid food are called Franken Food. Kind of like the story of Frankenstein. This type of food orignates from a lab and not from a farm.


118 posted on 11/16/2014 12:30:28 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Toddsterpatriot; driftdiver
I guess if your wife or girlfriend was putting arsenic in your food... you would NOT want to know too?

After all low doses of it, like the Glyphosate (AKA Round Up Genius) in your GMO, is safe..... LOL!

119 posted on 11/16/2014 12:35:02 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
I guess if your wife or girlfriend was putting arsenic in your food... you would NOT want to know too?

If you have any evidence that any GMO food is in anyway similar in toxicity to arsenic, you should share. Feelings ≠ evidence.

After all low doses of it, like the Glyphosate (AKA Round Up Genius) in your GMO, is safe.

If you have any evidence that Glyphosate in the amounts present in food is toxic like arsenic, you should share. Feelings ≠ evidence.

120 posted on 11/16/2014 12:47:36 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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