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In reply to the discussion: I just spent $6.94 on a pound and a half of Organic Tomatoes. Honestly it bugged me, then I saw this [View all]auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)First, most studies are financed by the companies, such as Monsanto, who have the most to gain from GMO crops. They're not going to finance studies that don't promote their view.
Second, GMO crops have not been tested to the extent that drugs, or even food additives like sugar substitutes, have been tested. That's why you see news articles of whole herds of cattle dying when they eat grass that suddenly, after 3-4 years of working as intended, starts producing lethal levels of arsenic, or plants that have been genetically modified with anti-fungals, that create a dead zone after a couple of years because the anti-fungal kills fungi that actually promote growth.
I'm also not a fan of introducing whale DNA into hogs with the intention of creating hogs the size of hippos. And the head of Monsanto is on record as saying that his goal is to control the world's food supply. They're working on that by creating crops that create sterile seeds so that farmers cannot harvest and reuse the seed.
The scary thing is that someone from Monsanto has been at or near the top of the EPA or FDA for many years. How can you control them when they run the part of the government that is supposed to oversee them?
While there may be a lot to be gained by genetic modification, it needs to be tested and it should not just be a way to create crops that can be controlled by a company or animals so large that their bones cannot support their weight. This is a common problem with hogs, chickens, and turkeys right now.
I have made the choice to be more aware of what I eat and where it comes from, especially since I've been diagnosed with a kind of cancer that doesn't normally occur in a person of my age. So my choice is to eat more organic and/or foods that are certified GMO-free. Whether the benefits are real or imaginary I don't really, at this point, know. But I feel better about what I eat.