The Return of a Simplot Conspiracy

[Major Nikon]

[brush]

1. So who are we to believe?

After watching that I still don't know if gmos are good or bad.

[cab67]

2. Based on the available data,

food derived from GMO crops is just as safe for human consumption as food derived from any other sort of crop.

THere are other issues that often get mixed up in the debate - the business practices of the companies that produce GMO seeds (some of which I find abhorrent), the ecological problems caused by fertilizers and pesticides, and so on. I think we should be focusing our energy on fixing these.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. GMO advocates make wild claims that aren't true....

Then they use false choice crap.

IOW: They sound like Republicans.

[zeemike]

4. The benefits of GMO is for them not the consumer.

There is nothing wrong with the potato that it needs fixing.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Sure there is. It can't be patented.

[Major Nikon]

13. You mean other than cancer?

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes-prevention/risk/diet/acrylamide-fact-sheet

How about Solanine (very toxic even in small amounts)?
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002875.htm

[zeemike]

15. Well I have been eating potatoes all my life

And they don't scare me at all...but then I don't eat the green parts...and most people know that and it tastes like shit if you try.
In fact people have been eating them for thousands of years and they don't need to be modified.
The only reason they do it is to sell you something that you don't need

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Only when they sprout....

[Stryder]

18. Cogito ergo spud.

I think therefore I yam.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. That was quite a mashup.

[Major Nikon]

8. Sure, because the anti-GMO crowd never ever lies

GMO is causing a cancer epidemic! Tomatoes have been gene spliced with spiders! GMO increases pesticide use! GMO causes Indian farmers to commit suicide! GMO makes people sick! GMO reduces yields! GMO is taking over conventional fields! GMO doesn't help the consumer! There have been almost no health studies! GMO is full of toxins! GMO causes food allergies and asthma! GMO Bt pollen kills butterflies!

Since people all over DU promote this nonsense, does that make them Republicans?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. No, it makes them naturalists.

[Major Nikon]

21. Mike Adams prefers the term "Health Ranger"

It's all in the marketing I suppose.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Obviously, you haven't had dinner with many naturalists....

The food is the entire topic of conversation,...including that the home grown veggies were washed in spring water.

It can be like an evening with an insurance salesman.

[progressoid]

6. Love that he was eating Soylent Green Chips.

[Buzz Clik]

7. Seriously? Potato genes incorporated into the genes of humans who eat the potato?

[Major Nikon]

9. Are you denying GMO contains DNA?

Once that shit gets into your system there's no telling what might happen.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Well, as they say, you are what you eat.

[Major Nikon]

11. I'm pretty sure a guy I work with eats assholes then

[Buzz Clik]

12. Now you did it.

We'll see how this plays out....

[Thor_MN]

14. What an odd conclusion, especially as the poster mentions potato genes.

You do realize that almost everything you eat contains DNA?

[Major Nikon]

16. The same guy teaches people how to fly with yoga