Hi Pogeu Mahone; Re GMO's toxicity to humans. You can find "peer reviewed" articles promoting any leftist cause you want as colleges are dominated by leftists. However, you can also find articles showing the reverse, for example, the following peer reviewed review article with three authors:
Genetically Modified Plants and Human Health
Suzie Key, Julian K-C Ma, Pascal MW Drake
J. R. Soc. Med 2008: 101: 290-298
"...
GM crops are tightly regulated by several government bodies. The European Food Safety Authority and each individual member state have detailed the requirements for a full risk assesssment of GM plants and derived food and feed.[34] In the USA, the Food and Drug Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are all involved in the regulatory process for GM crop approval.[35] Consequently, GM plants undergo extensive safety testing prior to commercialization (for an example see efsa.europa.eu
Foods derived from GM crops have been consumed by hundreds of millions of people across the world for more than 15 years, with no reported ill effects (or legal cases related to human health), despite many of the consumers coming from that most litigious of countries, the USA.
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
By contrast, foods that are self declared as "natural" undergo almost no regulatory process or safety testing and these foods regularly end up in litigation due to their danger to humans. You're looking in precisely the wrong place for danger. For example, see:
"According to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who eat organic and "natural" foods are eight times as likely as the rest of the population to be attacked by a deadly new strain of E. coli bacteria (0157: H7).
...
Organic food is more dangerous than conventionally grown produce because organic farmers use animal manure as the major source of fertilizer for their food crops. Animal manure is the biggest reservoir of these nasty bacteria that are afflicting and killing so many people.
Organic farmers compound the contamination problem through their reluctance to use antimicrobial preservatives, chemical washes, pasteurization, or even chlorinated water to rid their products of dangerous bacteria. One organic grower summed up the community’s attitude as follows: "Pasteurization has only been around a hundred years or so; what do they think people did before that?"
The answer is simple. They died young.
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hudson.org
That's right. Every time you go down to the supermarket and buy natural foods you have no idea what sort of mutation the farmers are selling to you. So they farmed it organically. What should that tell you? First thing is that insects didn't find it tasty. If the insects won't eat it, then why are you so eager to? I'd rather have food that insects like to eat but that are protected by pesticides that are sprayed on the outsides of the food (rather than present in every cell as is the case with GMO and foods that are "naturally" resistant to insects such as marijuana and tobacco). If there is going to be insecticide built into the cells themselves, I want those insecticides to be developed by modern science, not by an idiot leftist farmer whose products need pass no regulatory hurdle or inspection.
-- Carl |
