Food GMO food....whatda' ya think?

Is it possible to have true NON GMO? that shit is in the air and water.
Should probably be a law that the officers of those companies MUST eat it every day....no special food for them and their families...

 

I'll eat it every day. I'd rather have gmo food that is cheaper, healthier, and more drought and disease resistant. The science is in, and gmo food is not an issue. But it is popular for fearmongering.

 

I don't know what to think about this stuff...(Don't screw with Mother Nature)

 

I think there needs to be a difference between picking the best crops to do selective breeding and plant splicing with what should be called Chemically Dependent Plants (CDP). I came up with that tonight. CDC and CDO have already been taken... The plants that need a certain weed killing chemical or that create their own semi-toxic bacteria. *I have purchased BT before at the plant store to wipe out bag worms growing on bushes and it works, I didn't eat them or feed those to animals though. And they weren't going to cross pollinate with any other plants.

Now there is a lot of propaganda on both sides when it comes to modern CDPs, and I haven't done the research into them to know enough about it for sure. It is more than just the health of eating them though. You have to weigh the crop loss using other techniques, the costs to grow them, the quality and quantity, the problem with farmers not being able to save seeds for legal reasons, costs to buy new seeds each growing cycle, allowing a foreign corporation to control the seeds used to grow a large percentage of our food (when the merger goes through), the pollution (less insecticides, more weed killer, fertilizer runoff differences)

 

The strawberries I bought yesterday smelled amazing and looked beautiful. But, the texture was bizarre and there was no flavor. Driscoll's used to be great.

 

So much of the fruit and vegetables these days don't have the flavor or texture/feel that they used to....(or is it my imagination)
But, I do remember that the tomatoes, corn and potatoes that we grew summers in upstate (Putnam) county was quite a bit more flavorful.

 

Strawberry field neighbors sickened by a fumigant, report says

Why '100% Orange Juice' Is Still Artificial | The Huffington Post

It might not be GMO, but the processes farmers and companies use to ensure the best looking and a yearly supply of food needs to be addressed. It also gets to population size vs farm land and crop failures to if we have the ability to feed all the people with the highest quality of food without using extreme measures.

 

Having grown up in Florida near the strawberry center of the south and orange grooves, I can totally tell the difference. GMO strawberries are sneaky. I won't drink mass-produced oj either. Only fresh squeezed where I can see the machine. Or ill do without. It all tastes funny.

 

Mexico. Which usually has pretty damn awesome strawberries. I was reading more about how they're having to modify some crops for drought resistance based on the climate change that apparently isn't happening. For realz. Strawberries grow in greenhouse settings, too. dammit! I'd rather have a smaller, sweeter berry but people are obsessed with these big old honking things.

 

The grocery stores here carry whole beets, not sure if they're sugar.

 

Bt crops are genetically engineered to biosynthesize the insecticidal protein originally isolated from a certain soil bacterium. The plants don't create bacteria; they merely contain an extra protein that wards off insects, just like how the chemical compounds that cause apples to brown protect the wounded fruit from infection.

The Bt insecticide you purchased from the garden store is toxic only to certain types insects that act as plant pests. It's harmless to humans and all other mammals, and because it consists entirely of naturally-occurring bacteria, it's permitted and commonly used for agriculture certified as USDA Organic. The Bt bacteria that you spray on a plant doesn't make any genetic changes to that plant, either.

The factors you list in your second paragraph aren't unique to modern GM crops. Proprietary plant breeds have been patented under US law since the 1930s, and growers have long turned to plant breeders for new seeds each season due to a property of hybrids called heterosis, which translates to lower yield in the offspring of two genetically identical plants than in the offspring of two different breeds of plants.

 

I'm a corporate shill!

 

It's nice that this beverage manufacturer is supportive of reasoned discussion on this topic, yet their products feature labels that stigmatize biotechnology in order to increase profitability at the expense of accurately informing the public about how modern plant breeding poses less risk to consumers than conventional plant breeding (yet is feared more). If this is important to you, why are you shilling for a fear-mongering product?

Also, please note that not all genetically modified organisms are transgenic, as you describe. For instance, by manipulating genetic material found in conventional potatoes, the recently FDA-approved "innate potatoes" were engineered to resist blight, bruising, and browning—and to reduce the amount of a probable human carcinogen which is produced when conventional potatoes are cooked.

 

Second offense.