Genetically Modified Sugar Beets:A Bad Bet (At The Worst Time)

[nosmokes]

There is also a sign & send link at the site where you can edit an email that will go the execs ay the big candy companies and other large sugar consumers.The addition of your info there would be appreciated. With what we know,or more specifically what we don't know,we do know that kids are the most vulnerable, and they're certainly big consumers of sugar.Thanks.
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original-seedsofdeception

GENETICALLY MODIFIED SUGAR BEETS:
A BAD BET (AT THE WORST TIME)

The US sugar beet industry is threatening to venture into the world of genetically modified (GM) crops, hoping to introduce a new gene-spliced variety by Monsanto as early as spring 2008. But if the experience of the last decade is any indication, such a move will lead to huge economic losses for the sugar industry and even for US food companies who use sugar as an ingredient. Moreover, the timing for such an introduction couldn’t be worse. GM sugar would be dispersed through the food supply in early 2009, just as the new president is sworn in. If he or she is a democrat, which is likely, then mandatory labeling of GM foods will soon follow. And more than 50% of Americans have said they would reject GM foods if given a choice. But even without mandatory labeling, there is a significant industry and consumer effort underway to remove all remaining GM ingredients from the natural food industry, and to provide consumers with handy non-GMO shopping guides. And if that weren’t enough, the recent evidence confirming that GM foods are dangerous to health,<1> is inspiring more and more physicians to prescribe non-GM diets to their patients. With all this, how the can sugar beet industry be serious about GM sugar beets? It appears that they are relying on Monsanto and the biotech industry for critical information. Oops.
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complete article plus much more including a link to email sugar industry leaders here

[trotsky]

1. Umm...

Sugar is a molecule. There is no GM or non-GM sugar. It's just sugar. While there may be valid concerns about GM crops, the source of this article doesn't do their position any good by spouting such nonsense.

[laconicsax]

2. Shh!

GM crops are the harbingers of death for the entire planet. They are the most toxic product ever created. They cause every single disease and health concern in the world and anyone who presents so-called 'evidence' to the contrary is just a paid Monsanto operative.

:sarcasm:

[TZ]

6. genetics is teh evul

Despite the fact that recombinent technology has been around for years, has been proven safe in biologics for years (including thousands of tox studies and safety studies). I wonder if most people realized how many lives GM technology like DNA vaccines and now the emerging promise of gene therapy for Parkinson's saves. Its not a coincidence that many of the same people who decry "frankenfood" (got to be the MOST scientifically illiterate term EVER) also are anti-vax, anti-western med luddite brigade.
Anyone who knows anything about genetics doesn't freak over this technology..Its only in hollywood that eating genetically modified food causes people to turn into mutant ninja turtles. Which is what I think many here is gonna happen. You know what the big threat from GM food is? Allergic reactions! Serious but not any different from NORMAL FOOD.

[nosmokes]

8. Genetic modification is more than just recombinant technology, and

medical genetic therapy is not something that is unleashed to the winds, literally, to be blown about with no controls and no way to stop it or recall it.And I'm not ant-vaxine nor am I a luddite. The big threat from GM foods?Corporate control is my biggest beef, but there's a long list and you know it.C'mon Sue,deliberate ignorance is unbecoming on you.

[laconicsax]

3. This is about as hollow an article as you can get

This source appears to me to be about as reliable a source as Sean Hannity.

The 'Seeds of Deception' site and the article you posted are just playing off the fears that GM products will spell doom for everyone. The article you posted claims that recent evidence confirms "that GM foods are dangerous to health." I clicked the citation link, hoping to find out what that evidence is and got sent to an article that had absolutely no reference to any evidence of GM foods being dangerous to health. It simply summarized the difficulty that some farmers are having staying GMO free.

You actually posted the entire article. The rest of the page you linked to is filled with other short articles presenting biased summarization of GM-related issues. Nothing else on that page is about GM sugar beets.

[nosmokes]

4. why do you feel the need to misrepresent what I post?

And why are you so fond of Monsanto and it's corporate criminal ways? And GMOs don't do one good thing for the health of the planet, and that you can take to the bank.

[laconicsax]

7. I misrepresented nothing

Show me where you think I misrepresented your post, and while you're at it, define 'health of the planet' and show me some evidence that GMOs are harmful to it.

[nosmokes]

9. You claimed I'm playing off people's fears.

I'm stating some truths and observations. You want me to cite evidence go back over some of my previous posts. Health of the planet would start with more bodiversity the better and GMOs sure don't help there.

[laconicsax]

10. I made no such claim.

I stated that the website you linked to and the article you posted were playing off people's fears. Once again, I said that a website and article are playing of people's fears. I never said that you were doing so.

How exactly does GMO products limit biodiversity? For that matter, how do ordinary crops encourage biodiversity? Is it when a large, diverse area is converted into a large field growing a single crop and all other plants and animals within its bounds are killed or chased away?

[nosmokes]

11. Har!

[SpiralHawk]

5. You & your family are welcome to cloned mutant chemicalized food-product facsimile crapola

I demand -- and I produce -- clean food for self and family.

That's conservative, in the only true sense of the word. That's common sense. That's healthy.

You are welcome to listen to whatever corporate republicon propaganda you want, and to put whatever "substances" you want in your mouth and the mouths of your children.

I demand clean, natural food.