"What's all this talk I hear about modified orgasms?
Objections to GMOs has led to millions of deaths from starvation.
, a careful review of the literature suggests there is very little evidence to support any of the claims
The human body is INCREDIBLY adaptable and resilient.
Yes I’ll say it again :)
I was told 10 years ago that any improvement from a head injury would occur in the next 2 years. That was IT!
10 years later and another residual symptom has stopped recently.
GMOs will not be the downfall of the human race.
We’ve faced worse and adapted.
Why mess with God’s Creation in this way? Much healthier to eat unadulterated foods.
I’m not particularly concerned about health effects from GMO foods.
But, I really don’t like how so many are tasteless. Sacrifice flavor for extended shelf life. Is it worth it? Decide for yourselves...
Oh, “organisms”, read that wrong the 1st time.
“GM foods have not been around long enough to determine whether they have harmful long-term health effects on humans.”
Talk about a stupid statement to promote GMOs.
Well, what if they do. Irreparable damage will have been done.
A man whom I greatly respect, norman Borlaug, who pioneered higher yielding crops in poor soil to feed the world using traditional cross-pollination has gone over to the GMO side.
It bothers me because I share in growing GMO corn and soybeans and wonder if I should get out of it, not that there are viable alternatives in the area. My partner wouldn't revert to the older crops, looked into it extensively before he went over to it, and it requires a change in methods, seeds and chemicals as the article says.
We are small, don't irrigate, not enough ground water to irrigate with, generally adequate rainfall and water retention in soil, apply fall fertilizer, but yields are everything to stay competitive. Other farmers around the country are going for high yields, and it causes surpluses on the market which has driven prices down. Further affecting the market are Argentina now competes, our trade with Mexico who has bought a lot of our corn is being renegotiated (overall a plus imo), Russia won't use GMO along with much of Europe, plus the sanctions on Russia affect exporters of American food leaving primarily China and Japan for export. Also many farmers are putting more ground into soybeans because they yield less per acre but tend to bring higher prices per bushes; i.e., more cost and profit effective.
Label the foods and let the public decide what to purchase.
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GM foods have not been around long enough to determine whether they have harmful long-term health effects on humans.
Humans have been consuming GM foods since we invented agriculture. It is, in fact, quite difficult to find non GMO foods.
Our techniques have improved greatly in the last few decades, but we've been genetically modifying foods for millennia.
Every single bite of food you put in your mouth has been genetically modified one way or the other.
Every single bite.
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Besides, what would they do with all the free EBT food folks pick up at Walmart.
“oilseed rape”
Too soon to tell how this will be affected by the departure of Sen. Franken.
It’s not the genes it’s the ding dong patents on seeds that pollinate with neighboring farms leaving them liable to prosecution for copyright infringement. Capitalism = competition. Kill the monopolist.
There is ample research regarding Roundup, but it is disregarded in the same manner that climate change deniers are disregarded. It doesn’t fit the political agenda. Here is a good article published in the Scientific American on the inert ingredients that magnify the harmful effects of glyphosate. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weed-whacking-herbicide-p/
I use 20% vinegar to kill weeds in my garden along with a well sharpened hoe. I prefer to grow everything that I possibly can without the assistance of man made chemicals. My little organic garden produces 10 times what my family can consume, so we give it away to members of our synagogue.
I believe in climate change. It gets cold in winter and hot in summer. It has been that way since creation.
"What's all this talk I hear about modified orgasms?
Probably not all GMO is created equal. Having wheat the grows with less water is probably a good thing. But I can’t imagine that Monsanto sterile wheat is a good thing.
First of all, I don’t have “faith’ in any corporation or government. I don’t “believe” in anything they say. Government is force and evil. All Founders knew that. All major corporations are just crony capitalists and have lied and cheated to gain their power and were taken over by Marxists and Nazis by the 50s.
It is unconstitutional for the people not to have a “choice” in what we eat and their unconstitutional “system” where they aren’t forced to list what they put into our food supply especially when we know they are Malthusians and atheists and Marxists.
It is proven to be evil and unconstitutional to add flouride to our drinking water, so that people can’t monitor the poison that goes into their body and attacks their pineal gland and bones and damages their teeth. (I know it happened to my daughter and I studied it). They contaminate our water supply which affects plants and our health, etc. and we have to spend thousands of dollars to counter the effects and prevent damage to our children. Nuremberg Trials stated that it is evil to add contaminates to water like they added flouride to the water in concentration camps to dampen testosterone and create apathy. As the Harvard studies from 2012 prove, fluoride lowers 8 points in IQ of our children, and does harm to major body organs and glands. So, why would government do such an EVIL thing to the children in this country, by forcing all our cities to add fluoride to our drinking water, when Europe took it out decades ago and found NO known benefits from the toxic waste product put into too many American water supplies. No dental advantage AT ALL....proven!
Well, we have to go back to the fundamental principles of our Constitution. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Government is Evil-—ALWAYS!!!! All the Founders KNEW that—and that is why we have a Constitutional Republic so we have Free Will—Freedom to not be forced to eat poisons or adulterated foods, etc.
That is all I want. No FORCE and secrecy about what is in food. I want TRANSPARENCY with our food supply and vaccines-—all funding of “research” revealed, all RESULTS revealed (which are hidden today and whistleblowers are killed and vilified like Thompson). Research is mainly paid for and conducted by the major corporations to get the FORCED results they want and the destroy evidence which conflicts with their desired results. That is NO science whatsoever. The peer-review magazines have been PROVEN a fraud—as much as the so-called “research”. Global warming research and hockey stick graphs—etc., are all faux “science”.
Look at the 100 year old “lightbulb” conspiracy. Yes, conspiracies are REAL and been occurring since the beginning of time. it is true-—there was and are conspiracies to fool the public for profit which destroy the environment ON PURPOSE. It always was and always will be since power will always corrupt. It is just the nature of man.
So lets have freedom and transparency and NO SECRETS!!!!! and LIES!!!!!! and TRUE science which doesn’t exist in this Postmodernist world where Up is Down, men can be women and Evil is Good.
I object, on moral ground, to mixing DNA from radically different organisms. It is especially repugnant that human DNA is being combined with animals for experimental purposes.
Regarding GMOs, I believe it is the right of consumers to know if any food they are purchasing contains GMOs. There should also be a way to find out the specific sources of the genetic modifications, whether through labels or easily accessible website, etc.
No genetic combination should receive patent protection, nor any method for altering DNA.
There is probably some good that can be accomplished by genetic manipulation of plants and animals, whether for food or other innovations. But there are also some obvious lines that ethically and morally should never be crossed. Unfortunately these lines are being crossed, consumers are not being protected with information they should rightfully receive, and some extremely immoral genetic experimentation is taking place.