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We Are All Going To Starve
#21
RE: We Are All Going To Starve
Sounds like good news to me j/k.
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#22
RE: We Are All Going To Starve
Quote:I've always found it strange how some issues are pushed to the front in the media (i.e. GM Crops) which often overshadows a number of similar problems which look set to occur in the not to distant future.

Yeah,me too.Like that time a news report said our sun would die within 3 million years. I got really panicky. Turned out to be a mistake.; it's actually several BILLION years . Boy was I relieved !
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#23
RE: We Are All Going To Starve
(April 26, 2010 at 2:34 pm)Shinylight Wrote: I have never understood the opposition to GM food.
Maybe it's because people don't want their food being tampered with?

That's probably the main reason why I oppose GM foods as well.
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#24
RE: We Are All Going To Starve
Then you probably couldn't eat anything. It's all tampered with.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fc...fusListing

Quote:Everything Added to Food in the United States (EAFUS)

The list below is an alphabetical inventory representing only five of 196 fields in FDA/CFSAN's PAFA database.


Just because some soup company says "Natural Goodness" on the can does not make it true!
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RE: We Are All Going To Starve
(April 28, 2010 at 3:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Then you probably couldn't eat anything. It's all tampered with.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fc...fusListing

Quote:Everything Added to Food in the United States (EAFUS)

The list below is an alphabetical inventory representing only five of 196 fields in FDA/CFSAN's PAFA database.


Just because some soup company says "Natural Goodness" on the can does not make it true!
I'm not from the USA.

Out of curiosity do you even have Organic food out there?
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RE: We Are All Going To Starve
(April 28, 2010 at 3:40 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:
(April 26, 2010 at 2:34 pm)Shinylight Wrote: I have never understood the opposition to GM food.
Maybe it's because people don't want their food being tampered with?

That's probably the main reason why I oppose GM foods as well.

What is wrong with it being tampered with?
"God is dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith is what you have in things that DON'T exist. - Homer J. Simpson
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#27
RE: We Are All Going To Starve
Welsh Cake Wrote:I'm not from the USA.

Out of curiosity do you even have Organic food out there?

Of course we do, but you might find this interesting. An article from the TimesOnline.

TimesOnline Wrote:The £120,000 year-long study by a team from the London School for Hygiene and Tropical health was headed by Dr Alan Dangour, a public health nutritionist. His team identified some differences between organic and conventionally produced food but concluded that they were not sufficiently important to make any difference to a person’s health or give nutritional benefit.
Full Article - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_an...731910.ece
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