RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 17, 2014 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2014 at 7:07 pm by Simon Moon.)
I am not going to read the entire thread, so I apologize if this has been said or not.
My thought is there probably is nothing wrong with them, health wise. I will tend to choose non-GMO if there isn't much difference in price.
But my main problem is, that the primary reason for GMOs is so companies like Monsanto (an evil company for other reasons), can create plants that will be more resistant to their herbicides and insecticides, which are known to be toxic to humans and other animals, and the environment.
So, they create a vertical monopoly, where farmers buy their seeds, then have to buy their herbicides and insecticides in order to grow the plants.
While not GMO related, they also: create terminator seeds (seed that do not propagate from season to season), patent genetic material, still create chemicals that were banned in the US due to known health and environmental problems and export them to other countries. None of these is ethical behavior, IMO.
Dupont is not much better.
My thought is there probably is nothing wrong with them, health wise. I will tend to choose non-GMO if there isn't much difference in price.
But my main problem is, that the primary reason for GMOs is so companies like Monsanto (an evil company for other reasons), can create plants that will be more resistant to their herbicides and insecticides, which are known to be toxic to humans and other animals, and the environment.
So, they create a vertical monopoly, where farmers buy their seeds, then have to buy their herbicides and insecticides in order to grow the plants.
While not GMO related, they also: create terminator seeds (seed that do not propagate from season to season), patent genetic material, still create chemicals that were banned in the US due to known health and environmental problems and export them to other countries. None of these is ethical behavior, IMO.
Dupont is not much better.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
