Why you need to start eating ONLY Organic food NOW!

[RelativeBearing]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/chipotle-goes-gmo-free-monsantos-worst-fear-coming-true

Snippet:

"The bottom line is this. Either dsRNAs will sicken or kill people, or, they will give opponents of biotechnology plenty of ammunition. The scientific evidence, as it currently stands, suggests they will do both. dsRNAs, therefore, are a potentially huge liability."

 

[tulc]

everything I eat is organic...when I tried to eat things like rocks and metal my mom always said "Don't eat that!"
tulc(is just sayn')

 

[Paulos23]

Oh good grief, what a bunch of scare mongering. Chipotle's change in menu was due to picking up on a fad, and even then they still use GMO for some of their menu items (it is hard not too).

We need GMO's. Organic uses too much water, land, and pesticides to be efficient in poorer countries.

Also, the studies where not duplicated about the dangers of dsRNA.

 

[NightHawkeye]

My recommendation would be for everyone to quit drinking diet drinks before being concerned about GMOs. Diet drinks are a proven hazard.

[NHE exits stage right while donning flame suit ... ]

 

[keith99]

Should I point out that Dihydrogenmonoxide is not organic!

Cut it out of your diet, now!

 

[Liberasit]

Organic food is for middle class people who do not have enough to worry about.

It's far more important that everyone, rich and poor, eats their five a day. Let's not make this more expensive than it needs to be.

 

[tulc]

My recommendation would be for everyone to quit drinking diet drinks before being concerned about GMOs. Diet drinks are a proven hazard.

[NHE exits stage right while donning flame suit ... ]

Stopped preaching and started meddling now!
tulc(lives on coffee and diet pepsi)

 

[Audacious]

GMOs are so harmful that there isn't a single major scientific organization that is against them and they are regulated by the FDA and found safe just like all other foods that you buy. To be against GMOs basically means that you're a conspiracy theorist, denying scientific evidence based off of some kind of conspiracy in which corporations (e.g. Monsanto) somehow manage to pay off virtually all of America's biologists.

The facts are, GMOs use fewer pesticides and less water and perfectly safe. If you want a safe and steady food supply (a food supply which has a low risk of failure and can provide a steady source of food) for the world, we need GMOs -- otherwise, a lot of people are going to starve to death for no reason. GMOs are actually sometimes healthier than other foods; compare golden rice to regular, organic rice and you'll see what I mean.

Many people, including economists and scientists, have said that GMOs are crucial to solving world hunger. The Journal of Economic Perspectives published a paper on the topic, as well as the journal Plant Physiology.

Feel free to stop eating GMO food if you want, but it won't help make you any healthier. Personally, I'm going to keep with my perfectly safe and cheaper alternatives.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Here's some more health advice:

 

[Desk trauma]

If you are going to do away with conventional agriculture where are you going to find billions of people willing to stop eating to deal with the drop in crop yields?

 

[CyberPaladin]

Oh sure they tell you it's safe and requires fewer pesticides and less water then next thing you know it's super intelligent green beans and we are being ruled by cows. I'm not sure some of my food may have been really inorganic today what do they make Mountain Dew and Starbursts out of.
Seriously though give it a couple of years and fad will over and GMO will still be in use.

 

[OldFashionGal]

There should at least be labels! That way those that want the gmo foods can have them and those that don't can know which foods are gmos.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/06/genetic-modification.aspx

 

[Paulos23]

There should at least be labels! That way those that want the gmo foods can have them and those that don't can know which foods are gmos.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/06/genetic-modification.aspx

I think you would be surprised how many use GMO's if we labeled them. Heck, by some definitions the crops with have today are all GMO.

 

[Paradoxum]

What's wrong with GMO's?

 

[Fenny the Fox]

Essentially all crops are "genetically modified", they have been selectively bred and altered over time to suit our needs (size of plant, size of fruit, amount of water needed, amount of space needed, etc etc etc). Without this modification we would have seeds in our bananas, tomatoes would be smaller, corn would be smaller, we would use far more water, blah blah blah.

The issue people have seems to be HOW we modify them in direct gene alteration/addition/muting.

 

[CyberPaladin]

Essentially all crops are "genetically modified", they have been selectively bred and altered over time to suit our needs (size of plant, size of fruit, amount of water needed, amount of space needed, etc etc etc). Without this modification we would have seeds in our bananas, tomatoes would be smaller, corn would be smaller, we would use far more water, blah blah blah.

The issue people have seems to be HOW we modify them in direct gene alteration/addition/muting.

Not just crops livestock too just look at the domestic turkey. Delicious definitely not something could survive in nature.

 

[Fenny the Fox]

Not just crops livestock too just look at the domestic turkey. Delicious definitely not something could survive in nature.

Actually, I don't think they are really all that different outside breeding for mostly lighter colors (less visible pin feathers when dressed), different size caruncles (wattles and snoods), etc.

With turkeys it depends more how you raise them - if you overfeed them, give them antibiotics and steriods, etc., they get a lot bigger and all. Otherwise, if you raise them moderately and more naturally, they look pretty much like a wild turkey. And I have eaten a lot of all three - wild, farm raised, and factory farmed turkeys - I love turkey.

 

[TerranceL]

Everything you eat is genetically modified. Some of it just took a lot longer to get it how we wanted it.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

What's wrong with GMO's?

I think the only well reasoned argument I've heard against it pertains to how GMO's interact with pesticides.
(something along the lines of the company can engineer the crops in such a way that they would require you to purchase their specific brand of insecticides to work with).

However, I'm just basing this off of speculation from a Vice documentary...

It's one of those issues where you'll see a hundred different answers out there on the web.

 

[CyberPaladin]

Actually, I don't think they are really all that different outside breeding for mostly lighter colors (less visible pin feathers when dressed), different size caruncles (wattles and snoods), etc.

With turkeys it depends more how you raise them - if you overfeed them, give them antibiotics and steriods, etc., they get a lot bigger and all. Otherwise, if you raise them moderately and more naturally, they look pretty much like a wild turkey. And I have eaten a lot of all three - wild, farm raised, and factory farmed turkeys - I love turkey.

Well GMO food really are just the next step rather then trying crossbreeder for desired traits which is somewhat trial and error there splicing them in.
I read stuff about a couple of the breeds of domestic turkey that they had use artificial insemination with because the breast are so large steroids could have been part of the problem and really GMO food isn't going look or taste much different from the none modified food unless they trying to do that.
Yeah I love turkey too I've tried hunting wild turkey a few times since they've been reintroduced to my area and the place I've been trying I've seen them out season but not luck with hunting them yet.