Posted on 06/11/2013 3:59:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks for the head-up! Yet one other thing we can thank the NWO for....
Last time I looked, GMAs look just like their unaltered brethren under a microscope.
So they aren’t objecting to GMAs since there are no facts to back up the assertion they are “poison.” They just object to the IDEA of GMAs.
If it wasn’t for emotion-laden hysteria like this we could feed every person on the face of the Earth quite cheaply. How many millions have died at the hands of these busybodies? More than Hitler and Stalin killed combined!
Thanks for the post. I started paying attention to this kind of thing within the last year and a half.
I see no problem for me.
I bicycle to the town’s market every day.
I buy fresh pork or chicken, cut or ground to my wishes.
I buy fresh veges, grown on the near-by mountains.
I live in the vegetable capital of Cebu.
I do miss a good steak, as beef is very rare here.
The only beef option is to by frozen Aussie beef.
I tried it once...It was awful.
If you really want to find a corporation dedicated to killing its own consumers, look at governments (IRS, DOJ, NSA, etc.).
Maybe we deserve what we are getting.
Anti-GMO advocates ignore the stringent testing regime and insistently wave the great "maybe." Despite all the testing, and despite many years of safe use, GMO's "might," or "could," in "unforeseen or unanticipated ways" cause some unspecified harm. The boogeyman is going to get you.
The same tactics, of course, can be and often are used against anything new. We see this game being played with vaccines, with new medicines, and even with powerlines, wind turbines, cellphones, etc. Something that has never been detected, something that has evaded all testing, something for which there is NO scientific evidence, "might" get you.
And therefore, yet another beneficial technology should be halted because the luddite lobby has reversed the burden of proof and has everyone out chasing the ghost. One can always demand more testing, but when testing has already been done, why? And how much is enough?
GM crop varieties are tested before being commercialized. They are, btw, also tested independently by importing countries as well. The burden of proof has been met. Unfortunately, activist groups do not incur any penalties for making false charges. That is the asymmetry that keeps these bogus issues alive; the professional critics flit from one hysterical charge to another, and the rebuttals, which rely on evidence, can never keep up with the smear artists.
freedumb2003 :
how easy it is to spot a *TROLL*
Or it could have a homeopathic effect. Almost everything in the world is good and bad in various quantities and a GMO is probably not an exception.
Some Starlink corn made it into the mass markets and on the shelves in consumer products by accident. A relative spent three sessions in the ER with what appeared to be a pesticide reaction before we figured out that one of those products was the problem. Yes, the product was contaminated with Starlink.
Sometimes these anti-GMO threads on FR make me feel like I am at Democratic Underground. They are rabid anti-GMO panic mongers too.
-—and sorry to see Chuck Norris on the “nut” side of the fence-—
sfl
Soy sauce in the news recently - poison.
Drownings prove that water is a poison.
Any food with calories is a poison, including fats because they help dissolve real carcinogens to carry them to your bloodstream, sugars because of the diabetes risk, and proteins because of potential kidney damage. Are gravitons a substance? If so, the large number of deaths by falling are proof that gravity is a poison.
All I’ve seen reported is that there are studies showing GMO is dangerous. There have been no studies showing are safe that I know of. I see reports of certain scientists defending GMOs, but I see no actual studies by these scientists. In fact, just the opposite in a web search for GMO studies showing they are safe ~
http://farmersforthefuture.ning.com/forum/topics/new-gmo-studies-give-further
http://www.naturalnews.com/031951_GMOs_safety_studies.html
And I suppose the naysayers believe Dr. Mercola to be a nutcase, too ~ http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/27/19-studies-link-gmo-foods-to-organ-disruption.aspx
http://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers ~ with links to further negative health studies at the end.
Can anyone provide a link to an actual study showing GMOs are safe?
“Can anyone provide a link to an actual study showing GMOs are safe?”
Here is a recent study and review:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23414177
People have been eating GM food since the 90’s and currently ~90% of corn and soybeans are GM. If there were any real problems they would have shown up by now.
That can't be a true statement because the GM cells contain foriegn DNA.
...since there are no facts to back up the assertion they are “poison.”...
There is a long term study on GMO's done in France. I suppose you won't like it because it's French, but it was a good, well conducted study.
Monsanto hates it because it exposes them and has attacked it with much vigor. Their own study was for a short, 90 day period. The longer French study (700+ days I think) started seeing tumors after about 120 days.
I wonder if the American Chemical Society that put out your info has any connection to Monsanto?
When actors can’t find a job they find a cause.
There are GMOS that contain major modifications or additions, and there are those that do not (such as varieties of fruit that mature earlier or later to spread out production over a longer season). "Labeling" as GMO does not address this. It is an issue too complex for government to manager and cries for third-party certification and labeling.
As it is, labeling products as "containing GMO" will end up just like Prop 65 labeling in California, with the labels on virtually everything saying that 'the product contains chemicals that cause cancer,' making the act of labeling for GMO meaningless.
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