Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass

[Ichinisan]

I'm not against new technologies per se

you sure about that?

Then it should be stopped, all of it, until it is without doubt that there will be no issues.

:hmm:

Your condition that they be "proven safe" can only be done with testing. They actually do that.

 

[DrPizza]

Irradiation is used on foodstuffs, not seeds and it is mandatory labeled as so

What a perfect case study. Make it mandatory to label food as being irradiated - results in food that's been irradiated being pretty unmarketable. Absolutely safe, but people see the big R word in there. "Oh noes! Three Mile Island! My food is radioactive. It's going to give me cancer!" And the idiots (80% who don't realize DNA is in food), don't buy safer food. Any idea how many illnesses and deaths would have been prevented by killing pathogens via irradiation? Hell, if half of these people had been around in the early 1900s, and if automobiles were forced to put a sticker on the gas tank, "warning, contains combustible fuels," we'd still be riding horse and wagons.

Ironically, what's bizarre about that attempt at humor, is that the combustible fuels in automobile have directly caused more deaths than irradiated food would ever be capable of causing in a millenia.

 

[StrangerGuy]

What a perfect case study. Make it mandatory to label food as being irradiated - results in food that's been irradiated being pretty unmarketable. Absolutely safe, but people see the big R word in there. "Oh noes! Three Mile Island! My food is radioactive. It's going to give me cancer!" And the idiots (80% who don't realize DNA is in food), don't buy safer food. Any idea how many illnesses and deaths would have been prevented by killing pathogens via irradiation? Hell, if half of these people had been around in the early 1900s, and if automobiles were forced to put a sticker on the gas tank, "warning, contains combustible fuels," we'd still be riding horse and wagons.

Ironically, what's bizarre about that attempt at humor, is that the combustible fuels in automobile have directly caused more deaths than irradiated food would ever be capable of causing in a millenia.

Also the GMO hate because "it's artificial" and "you don't know what will happen if you GMOed food" while happily eating artificially selected food which is made by definition messing with DNA on an industrial scale for milennia and also because nature obviously never naturally evolved things that can kill us.