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Originally Posted by Hes
So your answer it to change the eating habits of 1/6th of the planets population ?? Good luck with that.
All this misguided fear-mongering over good technology is just making the issue more complex. It likely actively drives people to eating crappy. Especially if their friends on facebook make them feel bad for eating perfectly good GMO food.
This same misguided fear-mongering (from groups like Greenpeace) is scaring poor farmers around the world from adopting a technology (GMO) that could improve their quality of life (and potentially save lives).
So do you think those small farms do not jump at the chance to be more efficient ? If the GMO seed provides a 40% greater yield of course they are going to use it. Do not be surprised if many of your local Farmers Market veggies are made using round-up ready crops.
Also, I need some citations to some of the stuff you are saying. I always hear that "this generation will be the first that does not outlive the last". Let's see some evidence. Can you also use paragraphs ?
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Sorry, I cant effectively qoute links on my phone, but here goes.
Changing some habits of 1/6 the population is not doable? So what, we should aim to change the eco, agri, and societal cultures of the other 5/6? Or just selective regions regions which experience frequent famines? No, it wasn't the fact it was GM cotton that led to astronomical levels of suicide in Indian farmers, rather the debt load from the system GE crops operate.
https://enveurope.springeropen.com/a...302-015-0043-8
It's not a secret the seeds themselves are patented for all GE seeds. This creates a constant cycle of debt for every farmer using the crop. Let alone dictating the use of massive amounts of specific pesticides, or the hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment needed to harvest the thousands of acres needed to make a 'profit'. Farmers, it seems, are not seeing a 40% increase in profits, as yield is tied to expenditure. Apparently, debt ratios for farmers are at an all time high. Seems to me someone's making lots of money, but it sure as hell isnt the farmer.
https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Public...d_Farmland.pdf
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm...bt-and-wealth/
As for fear mongering, it's important to look at it with some relativity. Ads for Coke, McDonalds, Bayer, InVigo, etc are in every commercial break and every billboard. If some out there chose to promote a different take on it, so be it. Also, if some fear mongering friend talking #### about your diet inspired one to go shove back a bag of cookies and a bottle of pop, I'm not sure millions of dollars would be going into advertisement and marketing disputing such things.
For what it's worth, i think science is almost predicated on the notion there is always more we don't know. Breastmilk vs formula is a prime example of nature being indisputably superior to anything concocted in a lab. someone else might have some specifics, but didn't we only discover the importance of 'antioxidants' fairly recently?
Rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, increasing and at younger ages is noted by every health organization you can think of.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...20in%20obesity
http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/childhood/en/
http://www.diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...ns-SEARCH.html
It is beyond the simple 'article A is measurably equal to article B'. It is part of an entire system which, from everything I've read, I do not believe to be a positive for our world.
Many may disagree, but it's way oversimplifying the issue and maybe unjustly jusgemental to think the guy buying organic has his head up his ass and is a sucker for fads.