Genetically Modified Foods Article...

Why is the salmon picture scary? Seems like a rather efficient endeavor to me.

agreed...the salmon is a damn monster compared to the natural one...

I really have no problem with eating genetically altered food, though....I actually see it as a great alternative to the heavy use of pesticides and herbicides....

Penn and Teller had an episode for the bullshite series that discussed genetically modified foods. It's been sometime ago but the basis of it was that without genetically modified food there would be a lot more starving people.

Also, to me it eating genetically modified food would be a lot better then eating food thats been pumped with steroids and antibiotics and such.

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I actually see it as a great alternative to the heavy use of pesticides and herbicides....

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They still use pesticides and herbicides. The plants are just immune to them so they can actually use more without harming the crops.

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Well, your efficient might be my unnatural.

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Exactly.

There is nothing wrong with GM food. Did an extensive research into them for a class, a semester long process. My conclusion: I will now go out of my way to make sure I don't buy organic. GM Food is the only way we will be able to feed the world. Look up Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. He single-handedly saved billions of lives by introducing high-yield crops and genetically modified foods to the world.

these crops are designed now to be drought-resistant - good for areas in Africa and Mexico, use less land to produce more tonnage, and there is even a red-rice developed to help prevent blindness from malnutrition in third-world children. It contains a certain vitamin that is not available through natural foods these kids get.

Organic or "natural" foods are a scam.

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There is nothing wrong with GM food. Did an extensive research into them for a class, a semester long process. My conclusion: I will now go out of my way to make sure I don't buy organic. GM Food is the only way we will be able to feed the world. Look up Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. He single-handedly saved billions of lives by introducing high-yield crops and genetically modified foods to the world.

these crops are designed now to be drought-resistant - good for areas in Africa and Mexico, use less land to produce more tonnage, and there is even a red-rice developed to help prevent blindness from malnutrition in third-world children. It contains a certain vitamin that is not available through natural foods these kids get.

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This is the absolute correct answer. Without genetically modified corn alone the famines would be incredible. This will only be needed more in our future world which America feeds and will continue to feed. Many people do not realize this including many that receive the food.

I have a ton of Monsanto stock.

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I really have no problem with eating genetically altered food, though....I actually see it as a great alternative to the heavy use of pesticides and herbicides....

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Organic growing is a great way to get away from the use of pesticides and herbicides.

If this just ended with GM foods, that would be fine. But the GM seeds and crops contaminate organic farms, causing them not to be organic any more. Also, Monsanto has legally gone after farmers who do not buy his seeds, but end up growing his strain of corn because of contamination from nearby farms.

We've just started growing all of our veggies organically. Once harvested, I don't plan on ever buying any veggies from any stores.

I think we have a right to know as consumers if we are buying GM foods/products. This is just another play by a big business, backed by the federal government, that will put small market farmers, and organic farmers out of business.

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GM Food is the only way we will be able to feed the world

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When did it become our responsibility to feed the world, and does the rest of the world not have the ability to grow it's own crops and raise it's own farm animals?

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these crops are designed now to be drought-resistant - good for areas in Africa and Mexico, use less land to produce more tonnage, and there is even a red-rice developed to help prevent blindness from malnutrition in third-world children. It contains a certain vitamin that is not available through natural foods these kids get.

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Good, let them both grow it and eat it, or we can grow it especially for them. Or you can eat it along with them, but I prefer a more natural approach to both my proteins and my produce.

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Organic or "natural" foods are a scam.

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God has been scamming humans all the way up to us engineering foods?

So normal chickens are a scam, but the pterodactyl chickens are the real thing. We finally got it right huh? Cows were never REALLY intented to eat grass, but rather corn. I see. How couldn't I have seen it. Ole God's been pulling the wool over our eyes the whole time up until the 50s I guess. Man He's sneaky.

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Monsanto has legally gone after farmers who do not buy his seeds, but end up growing his strain of corn because of contamination from nearby farms.

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I wonder what will happen once Monsanto has finally gotten us down to a couple of varieties of corn let's say and a disease strikes it that it cannot defend itself against. What do you think will happen to a food industry that is so heavily dependent upon corn as ours is?

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I think we have a right to know as consumers if we are buying GM foods/products.

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As we do if we are purchasing cloned chickens or not, but again, the FDA has not mandated such wording is necessary.

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This is just another play by a big business, backed by the federal government, that will put small market farmers, and organic farmers out of business.

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The line between Monsanto and the Federal Government via the FDA are skewed to put it mildly. Politicians depend upon the money from Monsanto, Monsanto depends upon the politicians, and we have put ourselves in such a position with an enormous power as Monsanto has become so that we depend upon them for everything both food and economic related. They control, and I do mean CONTROL the FDA from the Top Dog on down, and the revolving door of the FDA and Monsanto is such that truly they should share the same building. It would make it so much easier for transitions between the two when employees take positions within each other. No need to move have to find a new house. Just go from the sixth floor to the 19th floor.