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Originally Posted by Thor
Correct. Which is we have not done, and the scientific community, AKA peer reviewed science has a lot to say about GMO.
You have to be kidding me. This is about the opposite to the actual truth of the peer reviewed world of science. A study is put into the peer reviewed journals, and it is either accepted by others confirming it, or shot down. The VAST majority of peer reviewed science is studies slightly adjusting well accepted science, almost never do you see any new studies that challenge accepted science that turn our understanding on its head.
Which is why anti-GMO people are ridiculous because they go against the science of GMO. There is nearly 30 years of peer reviewed science that supports the safety of GMO.
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The problem you have is that goverment funding for the monitoring of GMO crops in the US has been vastly reduced in the last 10 years which has led to results only be available every few years. No amount of peer reviewed articles is going to get someone else besides Monsanto out there to track what is happening with the GMO crops.
On top of that people who analyze the GMO in a controlled lab under controlled conditions will say that the seed is safe for human consumption, ignoring of course the trails done with rats that weren't so conclusive, but this does not mean that the farming of GMOs is sustainable, or even safe because nobody bothered to actually watch what happening with the supposed sustainable farming practices. Until a couple years ago, when data from federal sources became available, and it was evident that chemical use had increased WAY beyond what anyone had expected.
The science behind GMOs might be solid, and quite frankly I have never done enough research on the subject to know whether or not eating GMO wheat will give me cancer 20 years faster than normal. But I do know about farming practices, and how farmers deal with GMOs, and the data released by studies by actual people out there in the field, and not scientists in a controlled lab, confirm my experiences in the farming industry where I have seen alarmingly increased rates of chemicals being used over the last 15 years since roundup ready crops were introduced.
And especially since 2000 when the Monsanto patent on roundup ran out, and other companies joined the fold and began selling their version of roundup ready crops.