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be a result of GMO food? The USA eats GMO and the most disgusting fatbodies are found there (at least, according to TV).
The preoccupation with food is a mental illness.
Let people eat what they want.
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be a result of GMO food? The USA eats GMO and the most disgusting fatbodies are found there (at least, according to TV).
I’ll pass the roundup and roundup-ready GMO’s on to John. And I do wish my groceries were labeled as to which is which.
John Stossel is obviously another highly paid stooge for Big Corn.
He makes good points, and all in all, I agree with him. I think the anti GMO food hysteria is misplaced, but there are still enough reasons to be concerned, so therefore I would still prefer to eat non-GMO food.
The same is true for chemical fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers contain only nutrients needed for plants. They contain nothing else, as opposed to the myriad of harmful ingredients in manure, bugs, enzymes and all that are spread on "organic" products.
I don't think the average person can comprehend just how much food is available to the people of the United States right now.
After all is said and done, the science all in, years of no negative data, acceptance based on not even needing to know what you are eating, knowing how much cheaper, easier and yes healthier, greener it is to feed the masses.
The environment is so much better now, this ad brought to you by the manufacturers of government mandated and approved...Soylent Green!
I’m all over natural foods and we grow our own veggies, chicken eggs, and go in with a neighbor on raising our own beef cattle.
That said, I agree with John. I have a friend that refuses to buy a microwave oven because of what it does to food. What it does to food is speed up the atoms, heating the food. That is what a fire does. The result is EXACTLY the same.
My only complaint about GMO’s is the active pursuit of farmers who have some sprouted seed on their land that just blew there for payment for using someones seed.
And that is the big problem with GMO seed. But the food it produces? Meh.
Stossel’s either ignorant or misleading. Much of the the GMO corn has been made resistant to herbicides—so more herbicides can be used.
There are certainly other issues concerning GMO foods that scare me.
One big issue is that of Monsanto fast becoming the “owner” of all the seeds.
Let’s say, I have a farm and grow (for instance) corn. I don’t have to buy seeds each year because I save seeds from last year’s crop to use. But down the road is a neighbor’s farm growing Monsanto’s GMO corn. Natural (unpreventable) pollination occurs between our two crops and my crop get’s “polluted” with the GMO genes. Now Monsanto can come in and tell me that I can’t use the seed I save from my this year’s crop because since it has their patented genes in it, they OWN those seeds.
So what happens is that I will forever have to pay Monsanto in order to grow corn..... or perhaps I will even be forbidden one day to grow my own food if the powers-that-be deem me the wrong political side or wrong religion. That is power that can easily get into the wrong hands ..... and it’s happening as we speak.
1) Never trust the Government!
2) The Government keeps telling me that GMO’s are perfectly safe to eat and will not harm me.
3) see #1
My understanding is there is GMO and there is GE... (Genetically Engineered) ...The 2nd one is the problem...altho I prefer my food “normal”
The best improvement to our food supply with genetics has been the bug resistance that produces crops that need less pesticides and results in more food per acre. People against genetics are also the very type of pinheads that are the flat-Earth types. A little bit of information is dangerous around them.
There is only one GM incident I’m aware of that could have been catastrophic. In this case it was a modified bacteria that typically enriches soil. However, they made it too good, and it took over the test bed, killing all the other bacteria.
Had it gotten loose, it could have destroyed arable farmland around the world for perhaps several years, until other microorganisms adapted to it.
“We’ve eaten about 7 trillion meals in the 18 years since GMOs first came on the market. There’s not one documented instance of someone getting so much as a sniffle.”
Reminds me of my uncle who was driving drunk without incident for 30 years. No big deal until his luck ran out in one instant.
Yes, man has altered plants/animals throughout history but it was through simple breeding and selection that already exists in nature. We have never directly altered genes before.
I agree that GMOs are probably not too different once on your plate, give some incredible benefits and help feed starving people. However, man cannot test for all unintended future consequences in a lab. Releasing self-replicating artificial gene sequences into the wild is ignorantly playing with fire. Period