Comments on: 93% of Soybeans, 80% of Corn Grown from Genetically-Modified Monsanto Seeds

By: PatrickSTL

PatrickSTL — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:24:09 +0000

I would encourage everyone to read Michael Pollan's books “The Omnivore's Dilemna”, “In Defense Of Food”, and “Food Rules”. They are all 3 amazing and eye opening about the U.S's food system. I have drastically changed my way of eating in the last 3 years and fell dramatically better.

By: tagg

tagg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:20:38 +0000

Huh??? Where do you get this stuff???? How can you possible attribute the increase in human longevity to GMO's? It's ridiculous!

By: tagg

tagg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:15:07 +0000

What companies like monsanto are doing is unprecedented and you know it. This kind of technology is in it's infancy. You don't know any better than anyone else what the end results may be for this kind of genetic alterations.

By: Tuna Ghost

Tuna Ghost — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:28:34 +0000

There is no link to modified food and allergies, nor a hint of a link. The strongest suggestion of a link to increased allergies is through our own meddling with our immune systems. You call it "Frankenfood", but we've been genetically meddling with plants and animals for literally thousands of years. Carrots weren't orange until a few hundred years ago. Lap dogs were never an evolved species, they were designed. We're just able to do these things faster now.

And, unfortunately, you are not able to opt out of eating genetically engineered food. Some entire species of plants and animals you eat are the result of breeding programs that were started hundreds of years ago. This has been happening for much longer than you realize.

As for humans outsmarting nature, that sort of presupposes a distinction between man and nature, which is a false dichotomy. Man is nature. Our tools are nature. The whole "God never intended" argument falls apart under inspection as well, so I don't think you've really invested much thought into this.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:42:25 +0000

if we are being weakened by genetically altered foods why are we getting physically stronger and faster and living longer than people from the age of genitally pure foods, you would thing the opposite would be true.

By: Polymorpheous

Polymorpheous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:18:11 +0000

that is a weak argument and you know it.

you completely ignored what i posted about food allergies. what else is this frankenfood doing to our bodies?

you can keep eating it. i, however, will opt out of destroying my body from the inside out.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:08:00 +0000

I imagine Nature/God/Buddha did. I also imagine Nature/God/Buddha gave us brains/sense/intelligence to decide when what we've created is positive or negative. We have ways of modifying our food within the context of nature. We don't fully understand the consequences of our doing it outside of nature, and those doing it don't seem to care. Therein lies the problem.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:40:27 +0000

nature/god/buddha also didn't intend us to set broken bones, create antibiotics, or survive any number of formerly fatal illnesses that are now seen as trivial due to our arrogant outsmarting of nature, perhaps you should opt out of medical care on principal.

By: Polymorpheous

Polymorpheous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:47:47 +0000

I wonder why food allergies keep getting more prevalent. Why honeybees are disappearing. This is a relatively new technology. Who knows what will happen to our bodies 50 years down the road from now. Nature/God/Buddha, whomever, did not intend for us to eat this way. I think it is arrogant to think that the human race can outsmart nature.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:11:49 +0000

everything you eat is genetically modified, the animals and crops you see today bear no resemblance to the crops and stock they are descended from, we've been doing it for thousands of years, were just able to do it better now.

By: Word Eater

Word Eater — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:47:30 +0000

Frankenfood doesn't bother me as much as the fact that a single corporation, with their own R & D, is behind a vast majority of it.

I fully believe that genetically modified food could be a great boon to world hunger and land use. If someone can triple their yield on half the amount of land, that would feed more folks and save more trees. Trees suck up CO2 and release O2. Win, win.

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:22:49 +0000

interesting. at the risk of sounding like a complete worry wart, but I don't want to be eating food of any kind. Whether it's genetically modified corn itself or corn used to make my cornflakes, I just don't want that stuff in me. This stuff is everywhere, apparently.