Notice how obesity has skyrocketed since the introduction of GMO foods?
And we are NOT consuming them. I assure you. I have a 1.5 acre garden and grow most of our food. We eat NO processed food or food with an ‘ingredients’ label. We do NOT eat out, ever. I prepare EVERYTHING we eat from scratch. Using mostly stuff we’ve grown. We cook with olive oil and coconut oil. No soy, canola, corn or ‘sugar’ is allowed in the house. The kids meat is only organic and usually locally produced by someone I know personally. Hubby and I use the ‘natural’ meat that wasn’t fed antibiotics until insensibility.
In short, we eat just exactly how my great grandmother ate and fed my grandmother when she was growing up. Nobody fed their kids fast food. There WAS no fast food. Storebought cookies were for rich people. If you got cookies, mother made them from a recipe with ingredients. Mom had never heard of ‘potassium sorbate’ or monosodium glutamate or FD&C red 40. Somehow the kids in that generation managed to grow up mostly healthy and fight the biggest enemy that faced mankind up to that point. They WERE the greatest generation.
And for the record, when my grandmother visited OUR house and saw the prepackaged cookies in the cabinet she chided my mother in no uncertain terms that the kids did NOT need all the ‘other’ crap in the ‘convenience’ foods.
YOU compared food to tobacco. I compared the ‘scientific consensus’ surrounding the safety of something insufficiently tested prior to widespread consumption. Anyone spouting off about the health effects of cigarettes in the 30’s was written off as a wackjob. Just like you’re writing off those of us who avoid GMO’s. Well into the 1950’s MD’s were recommending smoking for weight loss. That’s how my own grandmother got hooked. She had a baby and wanted to lose an extra 10lbs. My silly grandmother. Believing a trained medical professional actually knew what he was talking about!
If you feel ‘safe’ eating food saturated with a chemical that wasn’t found in the human food chain prior to its introduction and only tested for 90days be my guest!
I repeat. If you think they’re so safe, long term, even though YOU are the long term study then YOU eat them. And feed them to you kids and grandkids. Mangia mangia!
You are exactly right.
There have been many long-term studies on GMOs. Simply check the literature for yourself. I agree that most people eat too many processed foods and not enough fruits, vegetables and lean meat. My Dad always said if it comes in a bag or a box, don’t eat it. GMOs does not mean processed—they too can be unprocessed and healthy to consume.
All the available scientific papers I have read indicate there is nothing wrong with GMOs. We have been consuming such for about 2 decades without ill effects in humans and animals. The fear-mongers are largely led by crooked lawyers making money from bogus lawsuits—of course, what is new here. We have been genetically modifying plants for thousands of years in the field and just because we move to a more efficient and selective method by doing the same on a bench-top in a lab is little different.
Again, lawyers bringing bogus, but money-making, lawsuits is the biggest driver for opposing GMOs.