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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
Politics is where the rubber meets the road? I know you seem to like to talk about things in some kind of scientific vacuum..... 
Especially with food...you have to actually make changes.....if you have the leeway to make changes..... |
Science doesn't exist in a vacuum. But a factual discussion should exist separate of politics.
Like the way you post stories in a way that paints anything "GMO" bad, as if it were a universal truth.
When the truth is: Crops modified or bred to be resistant to pesticides expose us to more pesticides, which may or may not be bad in varying degrees depending on the food crop and level of exposure.
Going "organic" is a good idea, depending on what food you're switching on, and how much of the pesticide goes into the food, and how bad that pesticide is.
"Genetic Modification" isn't frankenscience. It's simply an extension of the same techniques we've been using for centuries to grow hardier, higher-yielding crops. Just faster. And it has the same pitfalls... namely the higher exposure to pesticides, the lower nutritional yield of over-bred crops, and the increasing overuse of land. But to present this as a new thing and the simple removal of "GMOs" from the food supply as the answer oversimplifies the problem and draws attention away from the real issue: We're eating too much low-nutrition mass-produced garbage.