Posted on 02/25/2013 6:16:14 PM PST by neverdem
Still, it is 100% true that if you eat even so much as a single meal containing even a small trace of a genetically modified food, you WILL die!
Eventually.
Of something...
My real problems are two fold. (1) Proper labeling so that you know and can choose GMO or not. (2) Monsanto/ADM is a very aggressive bully against farmers who choose not to use their product. If some of their pollen blows over in your field, then you owe them money. They will take you to court and farmers can’t afford to fight them.
I guess Europe has got it figured out.
If GMO crops are so wonderful, they should be proud to label them as GMO. I continue to be amazed that so-called conservatives could support a position that allows producers to withhold information from consumers.
Ask no questions. They’ll tell you all you need to know.
Well, this answers my concern, i.e. ingesting roundup will not harm you. Think I might go out now and buy a couple quarts for breakfast for me and the kids.
It will actually sell like Mustangs because it is soon going to be the only game in town except for organic.
The Bt gene that they splice into most of the seeds comes from the soil and is a natural bacteria that kills plant pests and it is an acceptable product for organic farmers to use on their crops, they just don’t splice it into the seeds.
I have no problem eating them and in the future, if you eat and don’t grow your own you will eat them too and they will overtake the market.
If farmers can double their yields, use fewer chemicals, less fuel and less time why wouldn’t they plant GMO?
I seem to recall hearing of hundreds, or maybe THOUSANDS ! , of farmers in India committing suicide - due to ravages suffered after accepting and planting GMOs.
As someone already mentioned....if these GMO products are so wonderful....they would not mind at all to label them. That alone tells me this Free Trade Communist Globalist fluff piece is BS
GMO worshipers are as bad as the Global Warming NutJobs
For Monsanto deliberately and slowly to destroy the usefulness of glyphosate after the patent runs out and force customers (and with them the US taxpayers who enforced their patent monopoly for 34 years) then to buy their hot new and far more expensive patented alternative herbicides (which is what I have always thought Monsanto was doing with "RoundUp Ready") is, IMO, an eventual cause for class action compensation.
As a conservative, you want to force manufacturers to add additional labeling to their foods to address a problem that doesn’t even exist? Nothing like a good conservative to come up with a costly solution that is wholly disproportionate to a nonexistent problem. But here you are....
If GMO foods are so dangerous to your health, as you appear to believe they are, why not allow companies to voluntarily label their foods as "non-genetically engineered" in an effort to market their products to the scientific illiterate consumers who want to avoid GMO foods? Oh, we already do? Um, never mind.
If there are lots of scared people like you out there, then these hordes should be storming the shelves for products with exactly this labeling. Maybe you see it. I don't. In the meantime, most everything you eat has been genetically modified in some way over time, yet here we are living longer and healthier lives than at any other time in history. Go figure.
I'm surprised that you're not up in arms that food manufacturers aren't required to provide you with sustainability information, and proof that they pay their workers, in whatever country they may be located, a living wage. How can so-called conservatives support a position that allows these evil providers to withhold such important information from consumers? It's a real horror, I tell ya.
I don’t care if they label them, we label everything else, I’m just saying that it’ll be slim pickings to find something that doesn’t have a derivative of a GMO product.
The technology has developed so fast that they are even modifying minor crops. Honey, you know that bees get pollen from GMO crops. Meat, cattle are fed GMO crops. Sugars from cane, beets and corn all GMO.
The technology saves farmers money and the yields are over the top. The reason we aren’t going crazy about a shortage of corn because of the drought is because so many acres were GMO and even in the drought they yielded well.
Back to Roundup Ready type seeds, these are not GMOs they are bred not modified. Glyposphate is a salt and it disrupts plant growth. There has been extensively tested and it has shown little to no toxiciy to humans.
I have a question. I am by no means an expert in this matter. But, if I grow, say soybeans, that are roundup ready and these beans are only used as special seed for consumable soybeans, are the product soybeans roundup ready?
Lol, no one can say whether there will be problems with GMO foods, and there will soon be more meat products from GMO animals and fish. Consumers have a right to know what they are buying, and to buy or not buy based upon what, in their judgment. is best for them.
You want government to be Big Brother and decide what consumers can or cannot know about what they buy. This is just one more case of a bought and paid for Congress bowing to the wishes of big contributors and ignoring very basic labeling information that is useful to consumers.
Producers don't want to label because they know a significant number of consumers will decline to buy GMO products, a decision which is absolutely a basic right.
I don’t care how many studies are done on the matter. I am against GMO food products on principle. I don’t want them. It’s not what the good Lord provided in His natural way. The fact that this bothers some people (most of whom seem to benefit financially from GMOs) is not a concern for me.
It isn’t a mystery or rocket science champ. There are very few GM crops out there and they have gained huge market share because farmers like them. So anything with corn, soy or sugar from beets is likely to be GM.
More people have died from herbal supplements than have ever been harmed eating GM food.
‘more people have died from herbal supplements_______’
Whoa - here now - have never heard that - - -
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Agree.
And products could easily be (proud to be) labeled GMO free, the way some milk products advertise - what is it? brest-free or something. . .
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