Labeling GMO-Foods Is Not a “Radical, Screwball Commie Plot”

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Says Mark Bittman

Opponents of genetically modified foods celebrated a new study this week that found pigs fed genetically modified grains were less healthy than pigs on a non-GMO diet. The team of Australian scientists and U.S. researchers divided 168 pigs into two groups: one fed a diet of genetically modified corn and soy; the other fed non-GMO grain. Over the span of 22.7 weeks, the pigs fed the genetically altered feed showed higher stomach inflammation.

“This pig study is the first really sound study that has shown that there may be some damage to mammals, and pigs are very close structurally to humans, as a result of eating genetically modified foods,” says Mark Bittman, a food writer and columnist at The New York Times and author of the new book "VB6."

Bittman, who supported California’s ballot initiative last fall to label foods with genetically modified ingredients, says “we have a long way to go before we demonstrate that it’s unhealthy for us to eat foods that contain” GMOs. But the push for label transparency “is not a radical, screwball commi-plot,” he argues in the attached video. “This is a normal way of life in much of the world.”
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All science aside, GMO food should be labeled simply in the interest of Market fairness and consumer empowerment.
 
“it was incorrect for the researchers to conclude that one group had more stomach inflammation than the other group because the researchers did not examine stomach inflammation. They did a visual scoring of the colour of the lining of the stomach of pigs at the abattoir and misinterpreted redness to indicate evidence of inflammation. It does not. They would have had to take a tissue sample and prepare histological slides and examine these samples for evidence of inflammatory response such as white blood cell infiltration and other changes to determine if there was inflammation. There is no relationship between the colour of the stomach in the dead, bled-out pig at a slaughter plant and inflammation. Overall the study is flawed, but if you ignore the misinterpretation of the stomach colour, the research shows there is no difference in the two groups of pigs.”
 
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From an English perspective I really don't understand the resistance about clearly labeling things. We've had GM labeling over here for some time.

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Great post metalman. That'd fit in well to the anti-science website post. Especially applied to Naturalnews.com
 
The tomato is in the botanical genus Solanum, to which belong many poisonous species. One of the better known of these poisonous varieties is belladonna, or deadly nightshade, a plant similar in appearance to the tomato, The cultivated food varieties are tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants which all contain Solanine, which is a poison in large doses, causing everything from gastrointestinal symptoms to hallucinations, paralysis and death. Large amounts are toxic, but the amounts usually found in the parts of the plants we eat are trace amounts, however the amount in a few cherry tomatoes can kill a cat.

Unripe tomatoes contain poisonous alkaloids that disappear as the fruit matures. For a long time tomatoes were not eaten by Europeans but grown as ornamental plants and considered it only for wild animals and witchcraft; hence the scientific name of Lycopersicon or "wolf peach" given them by the 18th-century English botanist John Hill.
 
I think it's kinda funny that mangoes are from the same family of plants as poison ivy. Luckily they cut the fruit at the vine as the vine itself contains more urushoil than poison ivy. Even the skin of the mango contains some urushoil but the edible part does not. Which is good because I love mangoes. Well, when we get good ones. The ones we get from Mexico are usually crap, the ones from Peru have been quite good.

Anyway, what are we proving here?
 
Glaucus said:
I think it's kinda funny that mangoes are from the same family of plants as poison ivy. Luckily they cut the fruit at the vine as the vine itself contains more urushoil than poison ivy. Even the skin of the mango contains some urushoil but the edible part does not.
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and I'm drinking some Mango-Lemonade !


Glaucus said:
Anyway, what are we proving here?
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My point would be that we eat foods every day, that have toxic substances in them, without even thinking about it

To say that GMO foods are too risky to eat seems silly when humans have been growing and eating poisonous foods that other mammals and insects avoided, since humans learned to farm


Rhubarb

Rhubarb leaves contain poisonous substances, including oxalic acid which is a nephrotoxic and corrosive acid that is present in many plants.
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also makes a very tasty pie :)


Nutmeg

[In low doses, nutmeg produces no noticeable physiological or neurological response, but in large doses, raw nutmeg has psychoactive effects. In its freshly ground form, nutmeg contains myristicin, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and psychoactive substance. Myristicin poisoning can induce convulsions, palpitations, nausea, eventual dehydration, and generalized body pain
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metalman said:
My point would be that we eat foods every day, that have toxic substances in them, without even thinking about it

To say that GMO foods are too risky to eat seems silly when humans have been growing and eating poisonous foods that other mammals and insects avoided, since humans learned to farm
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We are co-evolved (that and our food processing technology). I like the fact that the experiments in food have been conducted to a large degree in the far past and that the people who had problems with the diet were killed off by it back then. Having to go through that selection process again seems like a real pain in the butt.
 
Study: You’re In Trouble, Roundup


http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2013/06/13/study-youre-in-trouble-roundup/

A network of environmental groups, Friends of the Earth International, tested the urine of 182 European city dwellers, from 18 countries, and found traces of the potentially-dangerous herbicide glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup, in 44% of samples. The leading producer of this herbicide is Monsanto Co. MON +0.25%, a company whose name has become almost synonymous with the genetically modified organisms it produces.
“This weed killer is being widely overused,” said Adrian Bebb, spokesperson for Friends of the Earth International. And that’s even though hardly any genetically modified crops are grown in Europe. Doing so on a grand scale would increase the use of Roundup around eight-fold, according to Greenpeace.
Even without a lot of GMO, Roundup is already making the rounds in Europe. It’s used for weed control in agriculture — especially on farms producing cereal crops, fruit orchards, olive groves and vineyards — and in public spaces, such as parks and railway lines.
Some scientists have linked the herbicide to birth defects, disruption of the human endocrine system, increased risk of cancer and miscarriage, according to the Friends of the Earth report. “If GMOs are allowed to be grown in Europe, then the use of Roundup will massively increase and we’ll have even more contamination of people,” said Mr. Bebb.
Other scientists, including those quoted by Monsanto, deny any health hazards associated with Roundup. “Under present and expected conditions of use, Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans,” Monsanto said in a report.

just eat around the GMO'ey parts :lol:
 
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