[Qiviut]

But how can this be bad? The Mooch, who knows what is best for us all, is partnering with Monsanto! And not only that, it's FOR THE KIDS!!!! [do I really need a major 'sarc' tag?]

Michelle O Partners With Big Food Company to Promote Genetically Modified Foods

[Manly Warrior]

Most folks think that GMO plants are simply hybridized to resist bugs, weed killer etc; they need to know that these seeds are sliced genetically with bacteria (to produce a bug resistant characteristic) other biologics (frogs)and organic chemicals to provide weed killer resistance/tolerance. These genetic splices create non-natural components to the products derived from the crop.

With little or no testing for long term impacts, if any, are simply unknown. That’s the way big ag and the big gov like it. Lots of food, but little awareness of any potential harm.

A big after-affect is that many of these GMO plants cannot reproduce-potentially resulting in monopoly of food production....

[greatvikingone]

Anti-GMOs are not doing their own due diligence, and the non-GMO labeling rules are going to be to the detriment of the populace - particularly the poor.

And for the rabid Organics - most food borne illnesses in America are from organic foods, courtesy of their special fertilizer.

[Socon-Econ]

The fear mongers cannot identify ONE PERSON who has gotten sick from GMO crops because they are GMO. The world is awash with plentiful, inexpensive food in part due to GMO use.

[Captain Compassion]

At some time in the future there will be basically two kinds of people. Those that eat GM foods and those that starve. — Captain Compassion

[TigersEye]

I have no problem eating GMO foods but I have a huge problem with the thuggish business practices of Monsanto backed by jack-booted FedMob agencies and courts.

[Wuli]

GMO seed making IS about Monsanto and others seeking to (a) monopolize the seed base for basic crops, to (b) seed bases that require the use of their herbicides and pesticides, (c) which they make more money off on than the seeds themselves.

In the end, the world’s main food crops are shrinking massively in terms of the variety of seeds they are based on.

No matter what arrogant man tries to do, narrowing the seed base of major crops in the extreme always, sooner or later, spells disaster, as some unforeseen consequence or some “natural” calamity, brings an unforeseen circumstance that an extremely narrow seed base lacks few candidates up to the challenge for.

That, not mere potatoes themselves, was the cause of the Irish famine. THEIR potato crop had, by machinations of the British colonials become the overwhelming dominant crop of Ireland AND it had been focused on mostly one strain of potato. When a crop disease hit the potato crops of Europe most of Europe did not experience famine or lose nearly all their potatoes. What potatoes they were growing comprised a variety of strains, with enough strains that had what they needed to survive; unlike Ireland.

The seeds for corn and soybeans, do to GMO progress around the world, have been reduced to 60-80% of the crop using just a few strains, and that is progressing into even less variety remaining.

The opposite can be said for the growing seed monopolies of Monstanto.

Conservatives need to admit that the adage “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is a fact of human nature and its applicability goes to every sphere, not just government.

[Veto!]

I avoid all the GMO food that I can. Buy organic, but that’s no guarantee of being GMO-free.

Had a big argument with self yesterday while buying sheets. Gorgeous, wonderful high thread count sheets. Across the aisle, organic cotton sheets. Not so gorgeous. Not so expensive. Gorgeous won, but I’m still staring at them in their wrapping.

A lot of people are in this boat with me. Wanting to do the healthiest thing for themselves, not really knowing how to measure the risks.

[CodeToad]

Nothing but an article written by a Luddite. Typical motional hysteria that brought us the Ozone Hole (which, BTW, has not closed even though we were assured it would if we would just ban CFCs), glowbull warming, the “Population Bomb” that claimed we’d all be dead by the year 1994 from starvation, etc, etc, etc. All garbage written by mental midgets.

[exDemMom]

This is so utterly silly. Human beings have been changing the genes of our food ever since we started engaging in agriculture and animal husbandry. Some of our foods are so genetically modified that it is difficult to even identify the wild plant or animal we started modifying millenia ago.

Our methods were extremely crude throughout most of history. All we could do was randomly mix up plants or animals and hope that the brand-new (completely unnatural) genomes that we came up with were useful.

Nowadays, we have the ability to target and change just one single gene—instead of tens of thousands at a time as in the past—and the Luddites come crawling out of the woodwork.

In a few years, people will be looking at the fearmongering over targeted, limited gene alteration as being as quaint and silly as we now consider the fearmongering over electric lights.

[MD Expat in PA]

About The Alliance for Natural Health

Link text

ANH-USA is committed to sustainable health, the recognition that our environment and our physical health are inextricably related. If we run out of clean water to drink, pure air to breathe or nutritious and uncontaminated food to eat, or if through our prescription drugs and vaccines we are poisoned by mercury or phthalates, our physical health will suffer.

Sustainable health also applies the environmental ethic of conservation to our bodies. It urges us to live as nature intended us to live. Diet, dietary supplements, exercise, and the avoidance of toxins are especially important tools in building and maintaining health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Natural_Health

The Alliance for Natural Health is a leftist and quack outfit out of the UK promoting among other things aside from sustainable agriculture as a way to stem “global warming”, promote homeopathy and the use of dietary supplements and high doses of vitamins (which they do not want regulated in any way shape or form) and being against what they deem to be “junk foods” (which they think need to be taxed and regulated like cigarettes) and against vaccinations and so called “GMO” foods which have never been found in any scientific research to be harmful to humans.

The founder and head of The Alliance for Natural Health, Dr Robert Verkerk FWIW also makes paid product endorsements for dietary supplement companies.

About George Wald

George Wald, Nobel Winner, Dies at 90

One of the first academics to speak out against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, he was a hero to many students in the 1960s. He also addressed such issues as the arms race, nuclear power and weapons, and human rights. Wald referred to this activity as "biology with a vengeance" and "survival politics."

Wald wrote “The Case Against Genetic Engineering” in 1979 and if it is anything like his opinions on nuclear weapons and nuclear war, it is likely based more on his political views than on scientific facts. And at the time he wrote that, he wasn’t specifically addressing GMO foods although one could extrapolate that from his writings on genetic engineering, it should be noted that he was not a geneticist and this was not his area of expertise as a scientist.

I will also add that I have a hard time with someone like Chuck Norris, an actor who dyes his hair (or has hair plugs) and obviously has had some “work done” spouting off and lecturing anyone on the benefits “natural” foods and living “naturally”.

http://stars-plastic-surgery.blogspot.com/2013/07/chuck-norris-plastic-surgery-before-and.html

[Elsie]

And worst of all, as the old song goes, it may be "killing you softly."

News FLASH!!

Humans will ALL die of SOMETHING!

[Elsie]

Humans will ALL die of SOMETHING!

Have you made YOUR plans?