Chipotle goes GMO free - others to follow?
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I'm not too educated on this stuff. I always get bored whenever I read about it. GMO is supposedly this huge danger, but life expectancy in the US (and the rest of the world) slowly keeps increasing. The outrage seems more based on fear than anything factual.
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I don't give two shits about GMO crops, but the idea the genetic engineering and cross-breeding are the same is fucking stupid.
If you could cross-breed a dog and a fish, that might be on the same level - or if you could cross-breed a cow and an aphid, that would be similar. Even in plants, the crossbreeding isn't similar. You aren't crossing an orange and tangerine to make a tangelo - you're crossbreeding an apple tree, and the genetic material from an algae or something. It's not the same kind of gene-swapping that's been going on.
I'm not sure the idea of inserting genes that make corn produce its own insecticide and become glyphosate -resistant sounds all that appealing, but I don't really see an evidence that there are adverse effects - other than bedwetters doing their normal bedwetting.
If you eat natural food, you'll just die of natural cancer.
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From someone whose family has been cross-breeding for generations.dflea said:I don't give two shits about GMO crops, but the idea the genetic engineering and cross-breeding are the same is fucking stupid.
If you could cross-breed a dog and a fish, that might be on the same level - or if you could cross-breed a cow and an aphid, that would be similar.
I'm not sure the idea of inserting genes that make corn produce its own insecticide and become glyphosate -resistant sounds all that appealing, but I don't really see an evidence that there are adverse effects - other than bedwetters doing their normal bedwetting.
If you eat natural food, you'll just die of natural cancer.
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The fact that 60 cuntries have banned GMOs is still concerning.
Red flags and all.
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All I know is, I cut gluten and GMO's out as much as possible and I feel better, sleep better.
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The fuck is a GMO?
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I'm sure it's not the placebo effect.......................d2d said:All I know is, I cut gluten and GMO's out as much as possible and I feel better, sleep better.
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It might not be, but its probably not the gluten doing it. It's the FODMAPs. These will tend to be in more "junky" food, which also tends to have gluten. Hence, if you cut gluten out of your diet, you will probably feel better.dflea said:
I'm sure it's not the placebo effect.......................d2d said:All I know is, I cut gluten and GMO's out as much as possible and I feel better, sleep better.
Unless you actually have Celiac disease, in which case you really do need to cut gluten out of your diet or you will kill your intestinal lining. -
abbreviation for Geronimo... duh.Swaye said:The fuck is a GMO?
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That's a good point and I certainly wasn't suggesting they are the same.
10-15 years ago, GMO efforts appeared to be focused on (for instance) how to make tomatoes grow in mostly unhospitable soil and make the tomatoes more tolerant to naturally present salt and a relative lack of water. Now companies are pushing the limits beyond that to franken-crops.
I think there more scientific discussion of a rating system for GMO's. The tomatoes I mentioned above would be probably be a 2 or 3 on a 1-10 scale while apple trees with genetic material from algae may be a 5. Corn producing its own insecticide would probably be an 8, 9, or 10.dflea said:I don't give two shits about GMO crops, but the idea the genetic engineering and cross-breeding are the same is fucking stupid.
If you could cross-breed a dog and a fish, that might be on the same level - or if you could cross-breed a cow and an aphid, that would be similar. Even in plants, the crossbreeding isn't similar. You aren't crossing an orange and tangerine to make a tangelo - you're crossbreeding an apple tree, and the genetic material from an algae or something. It's not the same kind of gene-swapping that's been going on.
I'm not sure the idea of inserting genes that make corn produce its own insecticide and become glyphosate -resistant sounds all that appealing, but I don't really see an evidence that there are adverse effects - other than bedwetters doing their normal bedwetting.
If you eat natural food, you'll just die of natural cancer.
