Posted on 11/09/2013 1:48:05 AM PST by iowamark
FWIW, about a month ago, my family switch to eating only organic, non-GMO food. I am eating far less but feel just as satisfied with a bit more energy. My mood has improved as well. I am also losing a few lbs. already. My wife's fibromyalgia and anemia symptoms have nearly disappeared after abstaining from gluten and GMO foods.
Vets tell you not to feed your dog cheap food because it's mostly filler. When you feed your dog better food, they eat less and are healthier. The same holds true for humans.
I don't want GMO's banned. I just want them labeled so people know what they're buying.
Your can't wash the pesticides off the GMO crops, it grows inside it.
Drivel..... Peddling the lie is Obamaesque
Americans are getting fatter, but food and sloth are the problem.
Can you please post your credentials (including any Doctorate level degrees, medical licenses, practitioner information) showing your expertise of genetically modified food and the endocrine system?
Thanks in advance.
/johnny
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But what kind of food is the problem? Organic? NO. It is the GMO’s making people fat, sick and slothful.
Basing your opinions on who thinks what is a sure sign of someone who doesn't use critical thinking and relies on knee-jerk reactions instead.
People bitch about chemical pesticides but then bitch louder when genetically modified plants are designed to resist pests and do not need so many chemicals. Their irrational fear is that the words “genetically modified” means plants that will alter their own personal DNA somehow.
“My desire is to eat only natural, healthy, preferably organically raised food”
Which is what GMO plants are designed to do: Resists pests so that chemical are not needed yet, you reject those plants as not being “organic”. Well, I’ve never seen an inorganic plant.
You have eaten genetically modified foods your entire life. Cross-breeding is genetic modification. Everything from corn to bananas have been cross-bred to give us the larger, more colorful, and better tasting plants. Even what you can “organic” plants are based on this cross-breeding.
/johnny
Spot on. Provide the information to the consumers and let THEM decide what they will/will not purchase as a result.
That is FREE MARKET CAPITALISM at its very best.
Personally, I do my best to stay away from genetically modified fruits, vegetables, or foods that contain genetically modified components. I still think the science is "out" on whether or not GMO foods are ok. (Witness how long it's taken for Hydrogenated Trans-Fats to be exposed for the dangerous, heart clogging substance that it is!)
As an example, I've been eating Honey Nut Cheerio's for breakfast for years. Learned recently that General Mills has started including GMO components into it, so I've stopped purchasing Honey Nut Cheerio's and have found a non-GMO component alternative instead that I enjoy just as much.
As you said: provide the information and let the consumers decide what they want. That's how our market-based system is supposed to work, and that's when it works best.
“That is FREE MARKET CAPITALISM at its very best.”
Demanding government labeling is not free market. It is totalitarianism.
“It’s irrational food fetishism.”
And the same level of stupidity by arrogant people that think they understand this subject as the globull warming and ozone hole idiots.
There is a marked difference between cross-breeding plants naturally as has been done for centuries, versus adding genetically modified components that include pesticide genetics in them.
You're either being ignorant in your statement that we've been eating GMO foods our entire lives or incredibly dishonest and misleading saying inserting GMO pesticide components INTO plants to develop resistance to bugs, etc.. is the same thing as splicing two plants together.
It is not. Inserting GMO material into plant seeds is not the same as taking two different seeds and splicing them together allowing nature to control the process.
Anyone who's ever spliced plants together knows the difference. (I was raised on a farm and I know the difference.)
ROFL!! OH MY SIDES!!! Demanding that food growers appropriately label their products so that consumers can make educated choices on what they purchase is totalitarianism?
Friend, you've got that completely backwards.........
By using the full force of government, which includes the potential of armed men enforcing laws or causing financial destitution.
Force, for when you can't convince someone to do what you want with argument.
/johnny
At the point of a government gun.
Force, because sometimes negotiation doesn't get you what you want.
/johnny
Is that right? Let me ask you this: Have you ever purchased an automobile and not known what the engine installed in it was, the safety features of the vehicle, it's basic MPG rating, etc?
So tell me: how is demanding the same type of information on the food we eat different from a car, or any other product you'd buy on a daily basis? <> It's not.
The same way I want to know all about the car I'm buying, I want to know what's in the food I'm eating. Period. Nothing more, nothing less.
Informed Consumers are at the heart of free market capitalism. I don't understand how some Freepers are against informed consumers.
Do you have any pictures of any Government employee or agent putting a gun on a food grower demanding they label their food product?
Can you post them here?
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