So since you're a scientist and all, can you tell me what long term studies have been on GMO foods that proves they are absolutely harmless?
When you say GMO foods are healthy, do you mean that they are safe to inject (and I will leave out suggest connection between GMO foods and cancer and digestive issue aside they're not proven), and all other issues surrounding GMO foods such as environmental impacts and patent issues are essentially not important?
Do you work for Monsanto by any chance?
GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism.
Genes from one organism are introduced into another organism in a lab, to confer some sort of advantage, such as-resistance to disease, ability to grow in harsh environments, etc.
In a way, you could call this "Natural Selection on Steroids". What might take thousands of years to evolve in nature, is done in a lab in a much shorter time.
A lot of folks say this is a bad thing. I don't see how eating a GMO potato or some other fruit or vegetable is going to cause me a problem. You eat the thing, you chew it up, it is digested in your stomach by your stomach acid, you absorb the proteins and carbs from the thing and poop the rest out. You do not absorb genes-the stuff is broken down into base proteins and carbs.
So, I am not sure why people get so excited about GMOs.
If you don't use GMOs, what is the alternative in a world that is rapidly becoming overpopulated, with natural resources coming under strain? You going to use more pesticides? Are people going to like that? No.
How are you going to water your plants in arid climates? How are you going to feed a world population that is ever increasing? I don't think it is possible.
So, you can say no to GMOs and you will see other problems arise-famine, disease, war...will make it that much more likely that the Zombie apocalypse is something that we will actually see!
As far as thinking that GMOs happen only through Man's pissing around with nature, that is also wrong...nature is always messing with things too. Look at HIV...how did that come about? What about Ebola? What about the Black Plague or Influenza or viruses that give you cancer or a host of other nasty things that are out in the world and a bunch more that we have not heard of yet?
We can honestly say that humans have caused a lot of problems on Earth. Now that there are 7 billion of us, we need food, water, space to live and we can only accomplish these things with more and more technology and research and science. The option of "going back to the old ways" is not really an option any more. The lands we farm need to produce more crops per acre, the water we use per acre of farm land is becoming more and more precious every year. If you were to wipe out GMOs tomorrow, the efficiency of world farming would plummet and millions of people would starve. Is that something we would be comfortable with in order to have a GMO free world?
I, for one, would sooner eat GMOs every day for the rest of my life.
