DucatiMonster696
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Can we put a label on non GMO food saying that it took more land to grow and therefore causes starvation and environmental destruction?
But what real distinction is there between GMO and GMO-free food?
Here is an idea. If you have same irrational hatred of GMO buy 100% organic food.
http://gmo-awareness.com/2011/05/05/is-organic-always-gmo-free/
It is guaranteed to have no GMO food in it.
But just like we do not require that all non-"organic" food be labeled as "non-organic" it is silly to label GMO food.
I think you could label food by which corps create it, that would let me know who I wanted to support with my money.
So don't label it GMO, just label it Monsanto.
So basically your wanting to label it has nothing to do with potential harm of GMO, but your hatred of Monsanto.
Glad to see the truth is finally out.
<trap>People who want to avoid GM crops should not be given the choice?
that EXACTLY the point everyone else has been making about GMO food - IT DOESN'T MATTER.
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I want to choose to only eat food that was picked by a female, not food that was picked by males. I think my food should be labeled so I can be given that choice. If I want to avoid crops that were picked by males, do you think I should not be given the choice?
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You have no answer. Because if you say, "yes", you look like a moron. If you say "no, that's stupid, because it doesn't matter whether a male or female picked the food" - that EXACTLY the point everyone else has been making about GMO food - IT DOESN'T MATTER.
It does not matter to you.
To those it does matter to, shouldn't they have the option?
Maybe kosher foods matter to jews?
Maybe halal foods matter to muslims?
If jews, muslims, vegans,,, can be informed about the foods they choose to eat, why cant people who want to avoid GMO have the option?
But because it does not matter to you, it does not matter to anyone?
It does not matter to you.
To those it does matter to, shouldn't they have the option?
Maybe kosher foods matter to jews?
Maybe halal foods matter to muslims?
If jews, muslims, vegans,,, can be informed about the foods they choose to eat, why cant people who want to avoid GMO have the option?
But because it does not matter to you, it does not matter to anyone?
I think GMO food safety is one of those things that we may not know true impact for generations. And that impact could very well be nothing at all. I think GMOs are the only option for food as population increases.
Then maybe those that it matters to should find a company who sells niche products that fit their lifestyle/opinions - just like Jews do with Kosher items. If there is a market for NON-GMO then maybe someone should jump on it and make the products... oh wait...
What is your basis for thinking it will have an impact at all?
I agree non GMO producers should label there stuff non GMO.
Regular food has been a lot longer the GMO.
Why should everyone else have to change because a company releases a niche product?
I don't know if it will or won't no clue at all. However genetics is poorly understood overall understanding the impacts has to reflect that fact.
So if they create say a new breed of apples through traditional hybrid processes are you going to avoid that apple for 40 years until its effects are known?
There are viruses and bacteria in nature that do exactly what you are describing and have been doing so for million/billions of years. Instead of having such vectors inject their own genetic material into plants, we are having them inject genetic material that benefits us. Could we use this process to create harmful plants? Yes, but the process itself is not inherently dangerous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrobacterium_tumefaciens
Politicizing science is never going to lead to the actual truth.
Science must be seen to bridge the political divide
Scientists in the United States are often perceived as a Democratic interest group. For sciences sake this has to change, argues Daniel Sarewitz.
hahahaaaa...look who is talking!!People who don't even know the basic facts about something like GMO's shouldn't have put themselves forth as experts both when he was against them and now when he is for them.
What is missing is the possibility of an entirely foreign gene with a survival advantage finding its way into organisms which could then throw ecology under the bus. After all we aren't talking random insertion of random DNA. This needs to be better understood and there's not much said about it. What's the probability? Who knows, but ruling it out as "unscientific" is more than a bit foolish. Chestnut blight, dutch elm disease, kudzu, starlings, zebra mussels- the list goes on and on.
No not at all, but that's a choice I get to make.