You are 100% incorrect. There are very poisonous gmo foods. If you don't believe me, drink a tablespoon of round up and see what happens.
The seeds are engineered with the round up enzyme (glyphosate). The purpose of this enzyme is to choke out weeds.
You actually believe that? Round up stays in the vascular system of plants. And if it's neutralized in soil, then the farmer would have to spray every week to kill weeds. Not only would that be extremely expensive; it's intractable when you need to treat thousands of acres. Roundup is designed to stay in soil for a long while. Most the time; at least the entire growing season.
Maybe you guys should read this letter. This isn't from some "tree hugger" group either. He is highly respected in the agricultural community. http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary...dup-ready-crops-may-cause-animal-miscarriages
GMO food has basically replaced non-GMO food over the course of the last 30 years with NO oversight. We literally went into it blind and assumed that everything would be fine.
At one point when I was growing up in Eugene in the mid 90's, the creator of Round-Up lived in Eugene, and was the richest man in town. I remember reading about it
I recommend some of the Michael Pollan books if you want a nice primer on GMO and Monsanto. His background is in journalism, so his stuff is pretty even-handed and well sourced. The bottom line for me is, Monsanto is a shit company, but there's almost nothing that can be done about it. They won.
Yep, there really isn't anything you can do right now. They are so rooted into the ag it's not even funny. No commercial farmer will stop using it because it saves them sooooooooo much money. It's sad, because I think in 10 years, it's going to be a huge snow ball of health concerns. It's a small problem now, but eventually it's going to be a huge problem.
I agree with everything in the article. It's not a good thing that we're drenching our crops, and our environment with this crap. And who knows what the overall health impact has been on our population? If you really want to "kill" a specific area in your yard, and it's not in danger to run off to the water system, I think it's ok for isolated use. I've used it in certain areas. But there are also more organic ways to kill vegetation, such as table salt, and vinegar....but the vinegar needs to be concentrated.
There's a push in Europe to ban their products. Italy is pushing for it, France passed a ban, but their court over turned it. The biggest voting power we have is with the dollar, buy organic, non gmo food.
Watch this, this is how I feel about organic food. [video=youtube;5amLAMRQk5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5amLAMRQk5I[/video]
Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange (HO) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use.[1] The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange. Monsanto is the maker of Agent Orange.
