I listed at least 5 major scientific organizations in these comments so far that put out statements about effects of GMO’s. I’ve had trouble in the past putting links here but they are easy to Google. American Public Health Assocation. Union of Concerned Scientists. Ecological Society of America. European Network…

Can you list names of any textbooks? If you are using English language textbooks, I guarantee if I search relevant books (environmental science surveys, environmental change, environmental systems, ecology, anything to do with agriculture) from at least the past 15 years there will be a section on GMO impacts to…

I wish people like you would try to understand things from education rather than blindly believing what Internet commenters post.

What are you arguing? Do you think I said 99.9% of foods don’t contain GMO’s? That has nothing to do with anything I’m talking about.

I didn’t say GMO’s are killing everyone. They do have harmful and deadly public health consequences. As I keep repeating, see statements by the American Public Health Association or various European public health associations or the Union of Concerned Scientists or any other scientific association who makes…

What is not true and what do you think that local news story proves?

I just can’t get over this.

I provided several citations to statements from scientific organizations. I mentioned to look in an environmental sciences intro textbook because the other poster mentioned she was doing a minor in environmental sciences in an undergraduate degree and that’s what she’d likely have around.

Yes, there are may factors. I didn’t claim and I don’t claim that GMO’s caused all environmental problems, public health issues, or social inequality concerns. That’s silly. But they do cause and contribute to some of them (in a major way).

I didn’t say all scientists — I said essentially all scientists who study public health and environmental science. That doesn’t include most plant biologists or biotechnologists. Biologists trained in positivist science who delve into health or environmental consequences of GMO’s test relatively inconsequential…

GMO’s are part of the animal farming system. Animal production has skyrocketed along with GMO’s because dirt cheap soy, corn, and alfalfa fuels cheap supply.

GMO soy is almost exclusively used for animal feed in CAFO’s and, secondarily, low quality vegetable oil (and other byproducts). They didn’t bulldoze almost the entire midwest to grow edamame.

Yes I’m a jerk, but you can’t seriously expect to post about how you wholeheartedly support a practice that many people (including essentially all scientists who study these things) consider to create a food system that is very harmful/deadly to public health and destructive to the environment without stirring up some…

There are no identified safety issues with consuming individual GM crops (as if eating a Big Mac can be “unsafe” like falling off a ladder). But there are massive issues to our food supply, public health, global inequality, and the environment from the proliferation of GMO’s.

GMO’s are different than grains because the purpose of GMO’s is to create low-cost, low-quality, high volume foods. The technology can be used for silly things like pink pineapples or faux-humanitarian things like golden rice, but those exist for PR purposes. The investments in those are justified as attempts to…

99.9% of GMO’s go into commodity animal feed for low quality animal production, commodity vegetable oil for frying, and high fructose corn syrup. There are other developed and approved GMO’s but they are either public relations showpieces and/or negligible parts of the food supply (like this pink pineapple).

GMO apples are not on the market yet, and summer squash is unidentifiable as GMO, so you are clearly disconnected from reality. Over 99.9% of GMO crops go into contained animal feed operations, commodity vegetable oil for frying, and high fructose corn syrup.

You will whole-heartedly purchase high-fructose corn syrup, low quality vegetable oil for deep frying, and most of all, the cheapest available commodity contained animal feed? Or do you imagine GMO’s are something else?

I think because fruitarians eat whole food with a lot of fiber, and don’t eat foods like animal proteins that seem to cause insulin resistance, they don’t have a problem with diabetes unless they are already resistant to insulin. But they can get teeth problems, especially if they drink a lot of smoothies.

Fruit has protein. All whole plant foods have protein. Not as much as meat generally, but most meat eaters eat far more protein than is required or healthy. If you eat a lot of fruit, you get plenty of protein of every amino acid, particularly the fruitarians who also eat raw vegetables.