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   dtroutma said, 7 months ago

   Less costly in actuality than the regular redo of package designs, to get kids to eat more jumk.
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   4my10851cs said, 7 months ago

   there was more to it than that
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   Daemon Sophic said, 7 months ago

   I’ve never understood the objections to Genetic Modification. Every piece of food we eat has been genetically modified over the centuries. Long before Grego Mendel, farmers have been cross-breeding and selecting crops and food animals to make them bigger, hardier, and tastier.
   Now they can evolve the plants and animals in one generation of growth in ways that would have taken decades via the standard route.
   There is no radiation involved. No mutations in the crops carry over and ‘infect’ the human consumer.
   Now you can add genes to make the apples more resistant to worms and insects. Result: Pesticide use becomes unnecessary. —>. Better organic apples.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 7 months ago

   Just remember,
   Hemlock is organic, Arsenic is all natural.
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   mikefive said, 7 months ago

   @Daemon Sophic

   Genetically modified tomatoes are really great. They are nearly tasteless and when refrigerated will remain as hard as baseballs for weeks.
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   Rockngolfer said, 7 months ago

   Curare is all natural, too.
   There is a difference between cross breeding plants to get the best ones, and taking a gene from a bacteria and splicing it into corn DNA so that it kills insect larvae.
   I would, however, like to have a cat that glows in the dark.
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   Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

   After the ‘revolution’ by the Anti-American Manifesto there won’t be any food to argue about GMO or otherwise.
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   olfart said, 7 months ago

   @ Daemon Sophic
   Unintended consequences. GMO corn is resistant to root worms, but the resistance has jumped to milkweed and is destroying the monarch butterfly. What other surprises might it have for us?
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   GreggW said, 7 months ago

   California, the best argument against direct democracy on earth.
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    chayasnana said, 7 months ago

    @olfart

    The GMO has not jumped species to milkweed. The problem is that the pollen from the corn falls on the milkweed and can be eaten by monarch caterpillars.
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    DrCanuck said, 7 months ago

    @Daemon Sophic

    Daemon Sophic said, “Every piece of food we eat has been genetically modified over the centuries.”

    
    You’re missing a vital point here. As foods evolved, people evolved along with them in the ability to properly digest them. Co-evolution, as it were. Suddenly change the genetics of a natural food and it may be the case we don’t have the intestinal abilities to process them.
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    zekedog55 said, 7 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Enter Silent Inflammation!
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    indieme said, 7 months ago

    Knowledge is power. We in the US now have less knowledge about what goes into our bodies then people in 60 other countries do. We are guinea pigs for the food and chemical industries. Soylent green anyone?
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    Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Americans can evolve much faster than Canadians. I do agree that you don’t have intestinal abilities.
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    Radish said, 7 months ago

    1.Genetic engineering as used in crop development is not precise or predictable and has not been shown to be safe. The technique can result in the unexpected production of toxins or allergens in food that are unlikely to be spotted in current regulatory checks.
    2.GM crops, including some that are already in our food and animal feed supply, have shown clear signs of toxicity in animal feeding trials – notably disturbances in liver and kidney function and immune responses.
    3.GM proponents have dismissed these statistically significant findings as “not biologically relevant/significant”, based on scientifically indefensible arguments.
    4.Certain EU-commissioned animal feeding trials with GM foods and crops are often claimed by GM proponents to show they are safe. In fact, examination of these studies shows significant differences between the GM-fed and control animals that give cause for concern.
    5.GM foods have not been properly tested in humans, but the few studies that have been carried out in humans give cause for concern.
    6.The US FDA does not require mandatory safety testing of GM crops, and does not even assess the safety of GM crops but only “deregulates” them, based on assurances from biotech companies that they are “substantially equivalent” to their non-GM counterparts. This is like claiming that a cow with BSE is substantially equivalent to a cow that does not have BSE and is thus safe to eat! Claims of substantial equivalence cannot be justified on scientific grounds.
    7.The regulatory regime for GM foods is weakest in the US, where GM foods do not even have to be assessed for safety or labelled in the marketplace, but in most regions of the world regulations are inadequate to protect people’s health from the potential adverse effects of GM foods.
    8.In the EU, where the regulatory system is often claimed to be strict, minimal pre-market testing is required for a GMO and the tests are commissioned by the same companies that stand to profit from the GMO if it is approved – a clear conflict of interest.
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    and so on…
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    http://earthopensource.org/index.php/news/60-why-genetically-engineered-food-is-dangerous-new-report-by-genetic-engineers
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