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In reply to the discussion: GMO's are they safe? There is no way to be sure yet...there are no absolutes in young science... [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)70. You're saying we should fear science.
I'm not suggesting we pull GMO's. I'm saying they should be labeled.
And they should be labeled because.......?
Because science is terrifying and will kill us all.
No radical change in our understanding of biology is needed to realize that if proteins from a substance a person is allergic to are introduced into a second substance, then that new GMO could cause an allergic reaction.
Allergens are already labeled.
Again, for GMOs to be dangerous to eat, we have to be wrong about digestion, cell division, DNA, RNA, protein synthesis and protein destruction. If you want to make that claim, or say that you should have labels just in case that claim is true, you're gonna need a mechanism for causing harm.
ETA: Why's this really a big deal? Not profit for Monsanto or any crap like that. It's a big deal because we can't feed everyone. We are depleting topsoil and water tables many, many times faster than they are being refilled. And climate change is making the problem even worse.
If we do nothing, within the next 100 years large swaths of the planet will be starving. Starving people don't die peacefully. The civil war in Syria? You can forget all the ISIS and political crap. It started because of hunger caused by a drought.
Our choices are either develop GMOs, or kill billions. Doing the latter out of irrational fear is an utterly unacceptable option.
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GMO's are they safe? There is no way to be sure yet...there are no absolutes in young science... [View all]
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
OP
And your suspecting comes from assuming (virtually) every combination has been tried
jeff47
Aug 2014
#62
How many times do you like explaining to people that women should be paid the same as men?
jeff47
Aug 2014
#6
No, I'm not. The GMO producers are. They're clearly terrified of the results independent
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#71
Just because the funding is independent doesn't mean the research wasn't restricted
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#74
And in Europe they have decided, based on the evidence that you reject, to strictly regulate GMO's.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#84
Oh right. Because all those European scientists are suffering from irrational fear.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#87
no but to be fair im willing to take a look...only thing that bothers me is the whois lookup
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#14
Which is why you read the journal articles instead of trusting the web site. (nt)
jeff47
Aug 2014
#15
You think that a transglobal corporate monster like Monsanto should be allowed
Peace Patriot
Aug 2014
#56
I am not talking about the biological cross breeding through biological invito or standard
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#66
How about this ~ stop rendering food producing areas infertile, and improve the waste factor?
Zorra
Aug 2014
#91
I agree completely I just hope we proceed with caution and transparency as you say...
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#78