Hi Lee. If you are eating wheat, corn, or soybeans, you are eating genetically modified organisms. If you eat anything else, probably not. The modification to crops that are GMO is to make them more resistant to Roundup (originally developed as a drain cleaner), a product used to kill weeds in the fields. The problem here is not GMOs per…
Hi Lee. If you are eating wheat, corn, or soybeans, you are eating genetically modified organisms. If you eat anything else, probably not. The modification to crops that are GMO is to make them more resistant to Roundup (originally developed as a drain cleaner), a product used to kill weeds in the fields. The problem here is not GMOs per se, it is the liberal spraying of Roundup, a known carcinogen, on most of the world's food supply and arable land.
And I am not sure that "plenty of studies" declaring GMO nutritional delivery is the same as confirmation that there are no negligible long term cellular impacts in humans consuming the genetically modified foods.
Is it in fact accurate to say that cancer, allergies, antibiotic resistance, immuno-suppression etc have, in fact, been shown to be insignificant concerns, other than from studies funded by large US Corporate Food Production lobbies??? Not a scientist. Just very interested. Ive long been cautious with wheat corn and soy....
Steve, in some cases it is GMOs, per se. Particularly related to some of the tactics the corporations take in promoting them, and in protecting their patent rights. Gmos may simplify farming at the front end, but complicate it at the other end. And contribute to farm failures, both in terms of financial stability, but in the destruction of viable farming ecosystems.
Glyphosate is heavily used on the GMO crops of corn and soy, but it is also used on on chickpeas, wheat and oats as well.
Use of glyphosate (one of the carcinogenic chemicals in Round-up) has been mostly for post crop maturity to kill weeds which makes for easier harvesting, however, some farmers have started to spray glyphosate as an "off-label" pre-harvest dessicant on non-GMO food crops, forcing the crop to ripen earlier.
I chose organic as much as possible. I firmly believe that GMO is the main reason roundup was invented and is one of the worst scourges on the health of all life on the planet
Hi Lee. If you are eating wheat, corn, or soybeans, you are eating genetically modified organisms. If you eat anything else, probably not. The modification to crops that are GMO is to make them more resistant to Roundup (originally developed as a drain cleaner), a product used to kill weeds in the fields. The problem here is not GMOs per se, it is the liberal spraying of Roundup, a known carcinogen, on most of the world's food supply and arable land.
Roundup should not be as widely available, and used, as it is. It should be used only as a last resort to deal with invasive species, for example.
And don't get me started on neonics and the seeds treated with these horrible chemicals. They are killing wildlife.
And I am not sure that "plenty of studies" declaring GMO nutritional delivery is the same as confirmation that there are no negligible long term cellular impacts in humans consuming the genetically modified foods.
Is it in fact accurate to say that cancer, allergies, antibiotic resistance, immuno-suppression etc have, in fact, been shown to be insignificant concerns, other than from studies funded by large US Corporate Food Production lobbies??? Not a scientist. Just very interested. Ive long been cautious with wheat corn and soy....
Steve, in some cases it is GMOs, per se. Particularly related to some of the tactics the corporations take in promoting them, and in protecting their patent rights. Gmos may simplify farming at the front end, but complicate it at the other end. And contribute to farm failures, both in terms of financial stability, but in the destruction of viable farming ecosystems.
Glyphosate is heavily used on the GMO crops of corn and soy, but it is also used on on chickpeas, wheat and oats as well.
Use of glyphosate (one of the carcinogenic chemicals in Round-up) has been mostly for post crop maturity to kill weeds which makes for easier harvesting, however, some farmers have started to spray glyphosate as an "off-label" pre-harvest dessicant on non-GMO food crops, forcing the crop to ripen earlier.
I chose organic as much as possible. I firmly believe that GMO is the main reason roundup was invented and is one of the worst scourges on the health of all life on the planet
Thank you Steve!