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RE: The Need for Full Disclosure on Food Products
It's kinda frustrating that restaurants don't fully disclose - if you think about it, a lot of the food they use can be from dubious sources. There isn't anything wrong with GMO per se, but the problem is we actually don't know that until many years have passed and proper tests have been done. I suspect we may NEED more GMO foods to withstand climate change effects, but we also need biodiverse GMO which I cannot see Monsanto providing! God the world is frustrating me this week. I have a sore back so maybe it's just I don't have resilience against the negative.
To me the biggest problem with GMO seems to be the goal that they're manufacturing for. We don't see crops that are adapted for climate we see crops that are bred to withstand the chemicals they want to sell you to spray liberally on the fields. Then they are also altered to limit the ability to seed save, so they can keep selling them to you. This alteration could possibly be affecting our own fertility if tests on mice are to be believed. There isn't much money to be made adapting plants for the reasons we could actually use while dropping the restriction on reproduction. It's a catch 22 situation which I can't see being easily resolved satisfactorily enough for people to lose their distrust of GMO.
Ha, I was just watching Catch 22 on Netflix and ordered the book again to re-read because I loved it. Joseph Heller had quite the bug bear with people saying things were catch 22 and they weren't. I wonder if this would qualify in his regard!
You are right about WHY GMO is a problem - in theory, it's actually incredible science which we really need. Why can't we use GMO to create a giant triffid to swallow Monsanto? Now that'd be a good use of DNA. And then we can make GMO crops that withstand flood, fire, rain and assholes, and as biodiverse as possible for the benefit of mankind.
Oh right, I'm not dreaming am I? I do live in a world of fuckwits. Sorry. That's the back talking again.
Ooo, burn!! 🔥 🤣 She's on the rampage!
It all about da money, in it! No money to be made in developing those sorts of crops, until there's no food left due to crop failure. Or maybe they've already developed them, but they're not going to waste them on cannon fodder. Wait until they've eliminated the riff raff first. Oops, sorry, I'm going conspiracy theorist now...