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Genetically Modified Food

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    GMOs are an interesting topic of conversation these days. Now, I'm not neccesarily asking you guys to debate whether or not GMOs should be allowed (although you are free to leave your opinion, of course), but I care more about what your thought on consuming GMOs is.
     
    You, as long as my corn isn't part of the X-men, I'd still eat it. I'm more afraid of the toxics we spray on our food than of the genetic structure. I think it's an overall improvement in our food today.
     
    If it's edible, safe, and beneficial, then yes. Now genetically modified humans? No way.
     
    I don't think we'll genetically master anything worthwhile, no. I'm of the thought we were genetically engineered so it'd be odd for us to supercede that power of our own creation lol

    What I don't mind is GMOs themselves. What I do mind are corporations like Monsanto Chemicals and Co. patenting life forms that get spread by nature, and having this totalitarian clear from the government to use private agents to forcibly repossess their "intellectual property" from farmers who buy seeds from what's picked. The fact that it's legal to patent any life form except a breathing human baby is appalling.
     
    Alfieri said:
    If it's edible, safe, and beneficial, then yes. Now genetically modified humans? No way.
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    Sooo with you on that. I would never consume a genetically modified human.
     
    Never paid any mind to whether they've been genetically modified. Albeit I try to stay as healthy as possible; I've cut out fast food restaurants completely, eat snacks in moderation, exercise as often as possible. I have started reading labels simply because I once had iron deficiency, but then that suddenly rose because of all the shrimp I had been consuming thanks to my dad dumping a gigantic lump whenever he cooked. So I had to limit, if not completely remove, iron from my diet. Now I'm paying attention the little details as a result.
     
    I don't have many thoughts about it, but I just know that since I've started eating non-GMO/organic food exclusively I've felt 100000% better. Plus it tastes a lot better than most GMO food does, to me.
     
    Inyotef said:
    I don't think we'll genetically master anything worthwhile, no. I'm of the thought we were genetically engineered so it'd be odd for us to supercede that power of our own creation lol

    What I don't mind is GMOs themselves. What I do mind are corporations like Monsanto Chemicals and Co. patenting life forms that get spread by nature, and having this totalitarian clear from the government to use private agents to forcibly repossess their "intellectual property" from farmers who buy seeds from what's picked. The fact that it's legal to patent any life form except a breathing human baby is appalling.
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    Now, I know that your position isn't exactly the one the guy in this video talks about, but I still think is worth watching.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq0NW1sTcI

    I love GMOs. I won't really go any further into this because it would turn into a DD thread, lmao.
     
    apocalypseArisen said:
    Now, I know that your position isn't exactly the one the guy in this video talks about, but I still think is worth watching.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq0NW1sTcI

    I love GMOs. I won't really go any further into this because it would turn into a DD thread, lmao.
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    I like that guy's points. And it's mostly the additives that make you crave their product that I don't like. That's what's contributing to obesity IMO and I could honestly give less than a shit about flavour enhancers or any of the other things

    you know, what I love about having little bits like this in TT is I can be honest, to the point, say what I mean, and most everyone gets it. The chivalry in there is on par with a space-western duel, and God help everyone if the opinion isn't totally unanimous lol

    I've been told not to be so srs on occasion, but damn look over there. Internet debate crusaders on display
     
    I agree with an earlier post that I would be more concerned with pesticides such as glyphosate being sprayed on crops compared to simple genetic modifications to seeds, that I don't pay too much attention to.
     
    If you eat corn then you are consuming a GMO. That is a fact no matter what kind of "organic" corn you are buying.

    Also: fun fact. "If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food, as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is 'corn.'" https://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/we-are-what-we-eat

    "Take a typical fast food meal. Corn is the sweetener in the soda. It's in the corn-fed beef Big Mac patty, and in the high-fructose syrup in the bun, and in the secret sauce. Slim Jims are full of corn syrup, dextrose, cornstarch, and a great many additives. The "four different fuels" in a Lunchables meal, are all essentially corn-based. The chicken nugget—including feed for the chicken, fillers, binders, coating, and dipping sauce—is all corn. The french fries are made from potatoes, but odds are they're fried in corn oil, the source of 50 percent of their calories. Even the salads at McDonald's are full of high-fructose corn syrup and thickeners made from corn."

    CORN HAS BEEN LYING TO US ALL.
    and I'm okay with that.
     
    Inyotef said:
    I don't think we'll genetically master anything worthwhile, no. I'm of the thought we were genetically engineered so it'd be odd for us to supercede that power of our own creation lol

    What I don't mind is GMOs themselves. What I do mind are corporations like Monsanto Chemicals and Co. patenting life forms that get spread by nature, and having this totalitarian clear from the government to use private agents to forcibly repossess their "intellectual property" from farmers who buy seeds from what's picked. The fact that it's legal to patent any life form except a breathing human baby is appalling.
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    This is pretty much my opinion. Surprisingly, I agree with Alex on something.
    Monsanto & the like are all run by Satan - they're awful to their workers (often denied the human rights they deserve on top of everything else Monsanto does), they'll risk lives, nature and ethical decency for profit and they basically have the all-clear sign from the American government to do as they please.

    Monsanto is evil, GMOs are not. On a whole, GMOs are good for humankind if they can be harnessed rationally and hopefully with ethical purpose.
     
    Harley Quinn said:
    This is pretty much my opinion. Surprisingly, I agree with Alex on something.
    Monsanto & the like are all run by Satan - they're awful to their workers (often denied the human rights they deserve on top of everything else Monsanto does), they'll risk lives, nature and ethical decency for profit and they basically have the all-clear sign from the American government to do as they please.

    Monsanto is evil, GMOs are not. On a whole, GMOs are good for humankind if they can be harnessed rationally and hopefully with ethical purpose.
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    The most common argument against this is a lack of easily searchable (often Google-found) evidence, but then again when in human history has the media just been left open to say what people should hear lol

    While I'm not one to denounce them as state controlled or anything radical, I doubt there's no foul play at all. I mean come on, we're humans. We're gonna do that to ourselves, we have since we were anything.
     
    Monsanto is as evil as any other large corporation. No more and no less. I'm not saying it is a great benefactor to humankind, but it is not evil.
    I'd suggest reading this article: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monsanto

    An excerpt from the article: "For many anti-GMO activists, Monsanto assumes the role of Satan in Christianity; a faceless corporation that is responsible for all harms supposedly caused by GM crops. The belief in the malevolent meddling of the company in all areas of science and politics is so strong that it is used as an escape hatch — a variation on the shill gambit called an "appeal to Monsanto," or "argumentum ad Monsantum.""
     
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