Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say

[Hana Song]

We already make decisions for people, this is yet another one where they wouldn't notice a difference.

You don't make decisions on what people eat and you shouldn't

[Fojos]

You don't make decisions on what people eat and you shouldn't

You believe that.

[Deleted]

You don't want food of generally lower quality (despite GMOs somehow boosting it - I dread to think what quality would US food have if it wasn't for GMOs)? So authoritarian of you! With you also being Austrian (at least I think it's the case) you're basically a Nazi.

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

[Hana Song]

You believe that.

? I don't believe that, I know

[Deleted]

If GMO food proves to be as tasty and healthy (or even healthier) than regular food and doesn't cause any serious damage in the long run, I'm all for it.

[Mehrunes]

The negative ones are forced. The neutral/good ones have optional labels. It's not misinformation, it's how it works. Most of the labels you see, outside of ingredients and energy information, is usually optional.

Geographical indications and traditional specialties in the European Union doesn't sound super negative to me.

[Fojos]

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

Or you look at the EU where people already eat GMO-foods without knowing it. Americans are very obese because they eat too much, that's their major problem.

[Sargerasraider]

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

You must have missed the correlation/causation lecture in school...

[DarkTZeratul]

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

Correlation is not causation, especially when you're looking at a single data point, and that single data point is just your general impression of a situation.

[Deleted]

We already make decisions for people, this is yet another one where they wouldn't notice a difference.

This might work where you live, luckily, it probably won't here. If we get US GMOs, it is very likely that they have to be labeled as such - sorry.

[Fojos]

This might work where you live, luckily, it most likely won't here. If we get GMOs, it is very likely that they have to be labeled as such - sorry.

We have GMO products already. Companies and farms here aren't allowed to produce, but we still import a lot, without labeling it. Do you notice any difference? No, you don't.

[mistahwilshire]

Looks at American people. Most are fat. Don't want to be fat. Don't want your food. We're not starving.

It's brutally obvious that isn't the reason for American obesity.

[Hana Song]

We have GMO products already. Companies and farms here aren't allowed to produce, but we still import a lot, without labeling it. Do you notice any difference? No, you don't.

? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regula...European_Union
The EC Directorate-general for agriculture and rural development states that the regulations concerning the import and sale of GMOs for human and animal consumption grown outside the EU provide freedom of choice to farmers and consumers.[5] All food (including processed food) or feed which contains greater than 0.9% of approved GMOs must be labelled. As of 2010 GMOs unapproved by the EC had been found twice and returned to their port of origin:[1] First in 2006 when a shipment of rice from the U.S. containing an experimental GMO variety (LLRice601) not meant for commercialisation arrived at Rotterdam, the second time in 2009, when trace amounts of a GMO maize approved in the US were found in a non-GM soy flour cargo.[1] In 2012, the EU imported about 30 million tons of GM crops for animal consumption.[6]

Is this a lie?

[mistahwilshire]

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

They aren't...and that's ridiculously known and obvious. But okay..

[Kaeth]

One just needs to look at america and all their health related problems. Oh I am sorry, I mean they are for sure 100% absolutely unrelated to gmo food.

That reminds me of another dangerous correlation that's not receiving enough attention:



SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

[Deja Thoris]

Attempting to argue with people who do not use logic or reason is a fool's errand.

I'm all for being convinced. But the whole crux of his point was "It's safe. Scientists said so". The article I linked says 88% of scientists think its safe but 57% of the public don't believe so.

So maybe if the clever people spent time trying to explain to the majority why it's safe we'd have more acceptance. Instead we get "lol stop fearmongering" type responses that are fucking patronizing. (And by clever people I prefer something that isn't a Monsanto promo vid :P)

[Sargerasraider]

That reminds me of another dangerous correlation that's not receiving enough attention:

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

This is my favorite:

[Manabomb]

If the EU wanted GMO it would use it themselves, I as a consumer do not want it.

So you're essentially a GMO creationist. You'd rather not believe the tried and tested methodology of science (which has proven that not only are GMO's perfectly healthy for human consumption, they also bring benefits like the mentioned Golden Rice.) and rather believe your own cocked up pot of shit that has no real bearing in the actual world other than "We don't like it."

Anti-intellectualism at it's finest. "My beliefs are better because they are mine and nobody can change them but me."

[Deleted]

We have GMO products already. Companies and farms here aren't allowed to produce, but we still import a lot, without labeling it. Do you notice any difference? No, you don't.

I almost only eat fresh local stuff. Which most certainly is not modified. The rest is chocolate.

[Hana Song]

So you're essentially a GMO creationist. You'd rather not believe the tried and tested methodology of science (which has proven that not only are GMO's perfectly healthy for human consumption, they also bring benefits like the mentioned Golden Rice.) and rather believe your own cocked up pot of shit that has no real bearing in the actual world other than "We don't like it."

Anti-intellectualism at it's finest. "My beliefs are better because they are mine and nobody can change them but me."

I don't understand why people like you take so much issue with people who don't want GMO, what's it to you that they don't want it?
How does that affect you? Do you have investments in it?