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This is something I learned from a University professor working with genetically modified canola. The modifications they make don't hurt you. That is what the supporters say too. The thing is, many crops are engineered to resist pesticide so that they can be heavily sprayed to be rid of pests and survive. The thing is, the plants then absorb a bunch of the chemicals, and when we eat it, we receive small amounts. This builds up over time and can cause serious side-effects. A lot of modifications themselves will not cause harm, but a result of them may.
As for the question about whether the CEO or something of a GM food company eats his product, the answer is no. If you noticed, the highly priced, high quality foods out nowadays are all labelled organic. Rich people like CEOs eat the best stuff. They eat organic.
Another thing you guys should know, our bread used to have vitamin E in it. That prevents heart disease. When people discovered how to bleach the grains and make the bread white, they removed the vitamin E too. The average person's diet today is heavily lacking vitamin E. The vitamin E suppliments have been shown in large scale studies to actually cause more health problems. That means we all need more natural vitamin E. How do we get it when our bread, has had nutrients sucked out of it to make it look better?
I'm not sure, but I think a similar thing happened to rice. It used to be more nutritious, but processes and strains were changed over time and now it is less nutritious. Our foods haven't all gotten better since the pre-industrial era.
If you understand margarine, you will also realise that a lot of brands of margarine are worse than butter. A lot of things being sold on the basis of being better than something else aren't really better, just different.
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