Foods that contain GMO

Genetic modification is a technique, the technique itself is not inherently bad for you, but I can think of genes/proteins that I do not want in my food. So it al depends on which modification and why.

The Round-up example is tricky, it may have reduced overal pesticide use but the other side is that the stuff is not good for the environment and Monsanto created a clever dependancy on their products which gave them way too much power.



We're all going to need 2700K Osram throwers, too. Have you seen the dust situation up there??

As far as world-food...politics and economics have an awful lot to do with the situation, too...probably still more so than yields.

So I hear, it actually increased the use of glyphosphate (Roundup or otherwise) and additionally it allowed the use of higher concentrations of it. They can literally flood the plants and soil with it...the crops can "handle" it and all of the target species cannot so even the resistant species die. Yes, that does create additional environmental issues even though it's a chemical that has a pretty short half life and lower transport. And it didn't halt the growth of Dicambra use, either, which is a whole other story. The patents...oh man...what a mess a dollar can make.

bananas are non GMO, at the moment:

I agree. Crops engineered for glyphosate and/or 2,4-D resistance are a major concern. Many food products have been found to contain these herbicides.

Glyphosate Contamination in Food Goes Far Beyond Oat Products

amazing what people will do, when money is at stake

“Oats are not a genetically engineered crop. But glyphosate is increasingly being used as a “dessicant” to dry out crops to speed harvesting.May 1, 2016”

“glyphosate is also sprayed just before harvest on wheat, barley, oats and beans that are not genetically engineered. Glyphosate kills the crop, drying it out so it can be harvested sooner than if the plant were allowed to die naturally”

Okay, I don't care about GMOs or organic food that much, but here's some info a lot of people don't know.

https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/how-gmos-are-regulated-food-and-plant-safety-united-states

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/organic-food-better

Avoiding GMOs, or just eating organic food, is no big deal because it isn't dangerous to anything other than your wallet, and people waste money on stuff all the time.

But that is missing the point that GMO’s cause environmental damage.

I do not know are GMO dangerous, but GMO tomatows has plastic taste.

I think some do, but most don't.

(Of course the GMOs that cause environmental damage are bad.)

I should rephrase what I said. GMO’s, as well as many other activities of humans CAN cause environmental damage. We, humans, too often forge ahead with changing things, trying to change nature, without fully understanding all the effects.

A GMO crop can reduce the amount od pesticides or herbicides that are used. Good. But if that causes disruptions to other parts of the environment, not so good.

We are between the devil and the deep blue sea, as the old saying goes. Billions of people need food. GMO’s help production volume.

So I feel better with organics because I can get them more or less with ease.

I hear that eating certain meats, like beef, is bad for the environment because of the resources required to produce the meat.

(I'm not going to quit eating meat though.)

Im also glad to have the option to buy organic foods.

fwiw,

Tomatoes

There are No GMO tomatoes. Taste differences are based on what the plants were fertilized with, and whether the fruit was picked green or not.

Environmental damage

GMO plants are involved in unintended consequences that create environmental damage in at least four ways

1. The modification to add the Roundup Resistant gene, means the field will be treated with Roundup, which accumulates and persists, in the soil… like most pesticides… This kills the soil… leads to desertification…

2. The decision to use Roundup to kill plants so they dry up for harvest, adds chemicals to the soil. This is for NON GMO Wheat for example… it has Roundup in it, that was used to kill the plant at harvest. We are eating Roundup, but not the GMO… im not sure which is worse… well, actually I am…

3. The modification that adds the gene that is toxic to caterpillars, kills butterflies… and we dont really know all the environmental implications of that.

4. GMO and associated chemicals including both pesticides and fertilizer, allow agribusiness monocropping to remain profitable. Agribusiness is bad for the environment in a number of ways, for example: The soil becomes depleted, and leads to a process called desertification… another unintended consequence of agribusiness is that the chemical fertilizer runoff creates deadzones, both in our waterways, and where fresh water enters the ocean.

What did they do 100 years ago when. None of this stuff existed.

Television, video games, computers, and the internet didn't exist 100 years ago, and those things can be good.

Eating food with GMOs isn't dangerous to the person eating it, but some GMOs are bad for the environment.

The GMOs that are good are technological miracles.

Studies have shown that eating beef uses far more resources than eating other meats, eggs or dairy products.

Reducing the amount of meat one eats is easier to do than to totally eliminate it all at once. Meat does not have to be the main course that we add a few vegetables to. Once reduced meat consumption becomes the norm it becomes much easier to have several days in a row without meat at any meal. That what we did a long time ago.

How do you know if you eat GMO that it won’t have adverse effects on your children and grandchildren.

I will answer for you. We don’t. I guess we will have to see.

My mother died in 2015 at 91 yrs old —- when I use to talk about eating Organic and Non Hormone Chicken/Beef she would just laugh and say ahhh I’ve always just eaten the regular stuff from the grocery —- I would say momma you grew up in the country in a small little town —most of the stuff you ate before 1965 was Organic in one way or the other —yard eggs — they raised they’re own chickens — cows— pigs

I was at a friends son’s wedding party and was talking to his Grandfather —he was a Rice Farmer —- he told me when they came out with the modified seeds in the 70s his farm was able to produce almost 3 times the harvest —- in a way they knew something wasn’t good about it but it was the only way they could compete with bigger corporations

Let’s open a Big Can of Worms

How many people use special deodorants (no aluminum ) and soaps etc

The argument is often “you can’t prove for sure that this does not happen, so you better be safe than sorry”. But to use this argument for very unlikely events (such as damage by GMO proteins to off-spring while you are fine yourself, mind that proteins that you eat are not quite stable in your body, they are digested and are then gone) is not a good idea, it kills off all new developments, both the good and bad ones, while we desperately need new stuff to fight the current challenges of our planet. The old stuff is not enough!