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There is literally zero science proving that GMOs are harmful. Just because someone shared some insanity from a blog on Facebook doesn't make it science. Anti-GMO and anti-nuclear power are the left's version of anti-global warming. No scientific proof, holding back human progress. Conspiracy theories at best.
Assuming you are correct that there haven't been any studies showing that GMOs are harmful, has each individual GMO been through scientific studies showing that their particular genetic modifications are harmless?
The burden of proof of safety should be on those introducing a new, untested food product, and each individually modified food product could have unique risks.
in addition to proving their safety, has each individual GMO been tested to prove that its nutritional content is equal to or greater than the food product it seeks to replace?
If the safety of each individual GMO has not been scientifically proven, then we should demand that they be labeled at the very least.
With respect emilybh, if we didn't have GMO food the 4 billion of us (don't quote me on that number), would all be a lot hungrier and poorer. Throughout history food has been modified to meet our needs. The science is not evil. The people doing the science are not evil. In fact, they are saving lives! I'm, frankly astonished that anyone could think otherwise. If you can afford the cost of organic, have at it. It's a free-ish country still. The cost of food is already getting out of hand and everyone knows organic and non-GMO food cost much more. There is a "bigger picture" to be considered regarding this topic. I think most people know the inflammatory literature or rhetoric we see on places like FB are motivated by either politics or ignorance. As an engaged U.S. citizen like you, I thank you for the opportunity to share my viewpoints.
GMO argument aside, everyone should have a right to know what has been placed into their food in a lab, just like we have laws labelling ingredients that allow consumers the freedom to choose what not to put into their bodies by avoiding chemicals or corn syrup, etc.
We know when our fruit has been hybridized, because it is called a "tangelo." We should also know when fungus or fish genes have been transplanted into our oranges - why is that still called an orange?
What motives are there for refusing to pass gmo label laws? Follow the money trail and find your answer.
What motives are there for refusing to pass gmo label laws?
If GMOs have been scientifically proven to be safe, putting a warning label on them would cause needless alarm, and is akin to requiring bottles of water to have a label "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE"
If GMOs have been scientifically proven to be safe, putting a warning label on them would cause needless alarm, and is akin to requiring bottles of water to have a label "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE"
Proven to be safe by whom? Who's funding the research? Follow the money and question everything. So many countries have banned Frankenfood. No need for laboratory derived chemical foods, God got it right the first tine.
There is literally zero science proving that GMOs are harmful. Just because someone shared some insanity from a blog on Facebook doesn't make it science. Anti-GMO and anti-nuclear power are the left's version of anti-global warming. No scientific proof, holding back human progress. Conspiracy theories at best.
Let's not start in on "Science". It turns out up to half of published medical science according to the SCIENTISTS themselves is W R O N G!!! They used to say DDT was safe. This was in an article in "The Lancet" this April. Medical Science is so corrupt it turns out the studies all produce the results the companies (MFRS) want them to produce. http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/145.pdf
Anyway, medical doctors are clueless about health because that isn't what they go to medical school to learn. But it turns out that our bodies' digestive systems can't recognize and or utilize and or eliminate anything that isn't 100 percent grown in Nature. If it has been messed around with by man it won't be recognized or utilized and will probably just clog up the immune system/ lymphatic system and bring "diseases" down the road.
If GMOs have been scientifically proven to be safe, putting a warning label on them would cause needless alarm, and is akin to requiring bottles of water to have a label "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE"
Exactly. They put a warning label on toothpaste with flouride telling you it causes cancer and not to swallow yet the American Sheeple --- including Greenville Sheeple are too dumb to demand it be taken out of the drinking water.
GMO argument aside, everyone should have a right to know what has been placed into their food in a lab, just like we have laws labelling ingredients that allow consumers the freedom to choose what not to put into their bodies by avoiding chemicals or corn syrup, etc.
We know when our fruit has been hybridized, because it is called a "tangelo." We should also know when fungus or fish genes have been transplanted into our oranges - why is that still called an orange?
What motives are there for refusing to pass gmo label laws? Follow the money trail and find your answer.
Right! Also did you know that corn syrup is now mostly genetically engineered as is cane sugar unless it saus "pure cane sugar" or organic cane sugar on the label. Beet sugar is GMO and ANY corn derivative product is GMO unless it says it is organic.
With respect emilybh, if we didn't have GMO food the 4 billion of us (don't quote me on that number), would all be a lot hungrier and poorer. Throughout history food has been modified to meet our needs. The science is not evil. The people doing the science are not evil. In fact, they are saving lives! I'm, frankly astonished that anyone could think otherwise. If you can afford the cost of organic, have at it. It's a free-ish country still. The cost of food is already getting out of hand and everyone knows organic and non-GMO food cost much more. There is a "bigger picture" to be considered regarding this topic. I think most people know the inflammatory literature or rhetoric we see on places like FB are motivated by either politics or ignorance. As an engaged U.S. citizen like you, I thank you for the opportunity to share my viewpoints.
With all due respect to you. It turns out that all the "modifications" and "Improvements" man has made to our food, medicines and even isolate "Natural" food supplements with (man made "standardized" extracts" have only made us worse off.
With every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We should all have figured out by now like the commercial says, "You don't fool with Mother Nature". The closer we can get to eating food fresh and whole as grown in Nature, the more healthy we will be. The same goes for medicines. Whole herbs are what our body recognizes and can utilize the best.
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