What do you think of GMO's?

[Creed of Heresy]

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.

Well first, those are issues of market regulations not being sufficient to protect the consumers and mid-tier producers, and second, those herbicides and insecticides are well within safety standards; our livers process out those chemicals very easily, and if it's really such a big concern...just rinse your fucking produce before you eat it. That removes pretty much all the residual chemicals. Besides, you think "organic" alternatives are any safer? Don't kid yourself.

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Oh god, everybody I know in real life is on the anti-GMO bandwagon, but it's basically an anti-science position made by left wingers. The whole organic movement is basically a movement to move everyone back to subsistence farming. No thanks!

Yeah, I'm normally a left-leaner but in this case, this is a product of the FOF-suffering yuppies, hippies, and subservient soccer mommies who feel the need to underequip their childrens' immune systems by sterilizing every last fucking thing in their house.