Genetically modified foods--- what can we eat?

[panader0]

The recent revelations about pet food and toothpaste from China are scary. But what about the companies like Monsanto? Doesn't genetically modified grain feed our cattle? What can we eat? Anybody have a list of good food sources?

[nosmokes]

1. eat local. eat organic.

try this local harvest or the site in my sig line. your local farmers market is a good place to start too.

I'm a big fan of CSAs, where you buy a share of a farm's output and get a box of food every week. it gives you a great variety of food and you really get to know the folks that grow your food. shop around. some CSAs only do veggies, some only do meat, we have one here that specialises in only fruit.

[texastoast]

4. Thanks for the links

There is another source close by I didn't know about!

[kestrel91316]

5. Yeah. What nosmokes said.

[nam78_two]

8. Yup-that is a great website btw

I found most of my loca farms through it after someone posted it here. I think it was the poster mycritters2 and it is a very usefu link.

[snagglepuss]

2. Almost all Vitamin C and citric acid come from China. Actually

many food additives and medicines are manufactured in China. LA TImes recently ran a really scary story about honey production in China, bees given vast amounts of antibiotics and honey stored in lead lined containers. The one thing consumers can do is demand US companies list where all the ingredients come from.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. The GE Foods Won't Harm Ya, So You Can Eat Them. Throw Away The Toothpaste Though.

[kestrel91316]

6. Whether or not they will harm ME isn't the point. It's about whether

or not they will do environmental harm. And I think there's plenty of evidence that GMOs are environmentally inappropriate.

Some of us care about things other than ourselves, unlike the rabid libertarian contingent here.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Hellooooooooo The Poster Asked If It's Ok To Eat. It Is. Deal With It.

If the poster asked about potential environmental impacts, that would be different. If the poster wasn't concerned with eating it, but instead about the potential environmental impacts it could have, then the poster should've said so in the OP.

Since both points 1 and 2 did not exist, your reply is firmly without merit.

[kestrel91316]

14. My comment was directed to you, not the OP.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

17. Ummmm, No Kidding. But Since MY Reply Was To The OP, Then It Would Make Sense That

it would've been within the context of the OP. Since you responded in such a way as to be non-contextual to my reply under those terms, then your entire post was without merit for the reasons previously stated. I'm actually quite surprised you are having trouble digesting this basic concept. I'm even more surprised that you responded so oddly with a declaration of "I'm responding to you not the OP" after you had replied to me when I had replied to the OP, under the OP's context. That's quite silly and made me laugh a little.

[nam78_two]

9. "Some of us care about things other than ourselves, unlike the rabid libertarian contingent here."

:applause: :applause: :applause:
I know this is Democratic underground and not liberal underground, but the bigger it grows the more libertarians there are now and they show up in anything GM, environment etc. related ranting about how it is free country and they don't have any obligation to care about anything but themselves...blah blah...
Those people scare me.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1042358&mesg_id=1042751

[kestrel91316]

15. IMHO libertarians are just RW extremists without the sex hangups.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. Agree With Ya There.

I don't care for them much either.

[nosmokes]

11. The jury is out on whether GMOs cause health problems or not.

The fact is that studies have been distorted, data has been withheld and studies that show health problems have been quashed. now the problems may prove to be minor and the danger may only be real for children and or pregnant women. but for damn sure i wouldn't feed any GMO to anyone in those groups or anyone w/ a compromised immune system.

[BlooInBloo]

10. I know right? Those MILLIONS of American deaths from regular food are SCARY!

[CountAllVotes]

13. the four main ones to avoid are:

1. Corn
2. Potatoes
3. Tomatoes
4. Soy

If these are not marked "organic", they are very likely GMO'd. You must buy organic to get non-GMO'd versions of the above (however the taste is superior!). It is costly no doubt but the way I see it after having a sibling that died in their early 40s of metastasized cancer that lived on GMO'd foods, I think I'll eat organic instead. Don't eat much meat and stay away from packaged foods (like organic cookies even) and you will save a lot of money and it is doable, esp. if you go to local sources as mentioned above.

Best of luck - we all need it!

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