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Well I would like to avoid it, but it is really difficult it is in almost everything.
Yes it's a hunt but you can find the "real deal" out there.
It will cost more to buy stuff made with real sugar over HFCS.
And we all know organic and locally produced costs more.
But..is the true cost of food today using real ingredients and raising livestock the way they are supposed to be raised.
I'll cut back in other areas to afford real food and grow my own when I can.
It's your body and your health. You don't cut back in that area IMHO.
Yes it's a hunt but you can find the "real deal" out there.
It will cost more to buy stuff made with real sugar over HFCS.
And we all know organic and locally produced costs more.
But..is the true cost of food today using real ingredients and raising livestock the way they are supposed to be raised.
I'll cut back in other areas to afford real food and grow my own when I can.
It's your body and your health. You don't cut back in that area IMHO.
I agree. I have been lazy in that area. I live on a farm. I have space. I need to start growing. I am going to start working on that. If nothing else, it will give me piece of mind.
What are you referring to with the sentence that I bolded?
In reference to genetically modifying foods for the past ten thousand years. Bananas are the easiest example to cite. Natural bananas look nothing like the yellow dessert banana. But, humans have been selectively breeding animals and plants for thousands of years. That is genetic engineering on a gross scale. With the discovery of the genome and our ability to manipulate it, we have the power to modify our foodstuffs with incredible precision.
We don't yet know how unaltered food effects our bodies, so there's no way to tell what altered foods might do.
I have read that certain pesticides work because they are the insects natural foods that have been altered to not provide the whatever that the insect eats it to obtain.
Our bodies can sustain a great deal of abuse and malnutrition before they succumb. It's decades before substance abuse and environmental toxins kill us, so how can anyone say that genetic foods are safe?
Some results are coming in now but aren't exactly hitting the front page of MSM sites. The GM pesticide is now in our blood
Blood type: Bt | fieldquestions
They studied pregnant women, their fetuses (actually umbilical cord blood after delivery), and also a group of non-pregnant women. GM-associated insecticide was widespread in the blood samples; GM-associated herbicide was present but rare.
Well I would like to avoid it, but it is really difficult it is in almost everything.
It's funny that you say that. What is your definition of "Almost everything?" I eat a simple but very good diet and I make things from scratch. It's not hard to aviod those things at all. Just don't buy any prepared foods. When I moved to Niagara Falls I found there is a factory that makes just about every kind of Italian entries you can name. There are zero chemicals, additives or any other kinds of crap in their food. It's not expensive either buying it right from the factory. I was there yesterday buying some manicotti and I noticed that half the cars in the parking lot were from the USA.
it amazes me that people are worries about genetically modified food, but dont realize that they have been eating GM foods for decades, actually centuries. anytime you take a cutting from one plant and splice it to another, you are genetically modifying the plant. and many food bearing plants have been manipulated over the centuries, just like animals have been. the only real difference between what is done in the field, and what is done in the lab, is that the lab is doing the job directly at the gene level rather than at the more complex plant level.
Last time I checked, I don't merge DNA with something I just eaten.... last time I checked, there isn't anything toxic in GMO foods either... so while people may want organic food, that is a choice they can make on their own without trying to bring their OPINIONS on everyone else which is really what they want in the first place...
If an emeritus professor from Purdue University wrote that letter, then I'm the Queen of Mars.
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