Should "Genetically Modified" foods be labeled?

by Roger47 Posted 2012/09/02 18:50:20

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Genetically modified foods are increasingly reaching our grocery shelves. Do you want to be able to know when you are putting genetically modified foods on your family's plate?
There is currently an initiative on the ballot in California to require labeling of genetically modified foods. Monsanto is spending millions of dollars to try to keep you from being able to know.
All of Europe, and Japan and China require GMO labels. Should we be able to have the same information that consumers in those places have?

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Kurbdog 2012/09/02 18:50:56

Yes

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Cyan9 2012/09/07 05:16:06

No

Every single grain or kernel that has passed through human stomachs since the invention of agriculture has been genetically modified.

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Jana to Cyan9 2013/03/19 19:06:40

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No, it hasn't. Not that we, as a country, have been eating. Only recently did they decide to put it in our grains, and its only rice, corn and soybean. Especially corn. Read for yourself because I know you probably don't believe it. Google GMOs and GEOs, you will see what they been doing with the food system. Then realize that any day now long term effects will be turning up in the ER rooms with food related illnesses from the pesticides, including the sudden rash of people who are allergic to everything. Its not the food, its the pesticides IN then food as it grows. That's what our seeds were genetically altered with....I'll see you at the GMO free store soon.

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Piperpc 2012/09/04 17:19:38

Yes

Absolutely. If GMO foods are so 'great', Monsanto should have no problem with them being identified.

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Lerro DeHazel 2012/09/03 19:01:58

No

"They" even have a 5th Generation Jalopena Pepper that you can eat like an apple. It's not even hot at all . . . Naval Oranges would be full-of-seeds if they were not altered . . . And some of the Beef-Steak Tomato varieties would be not larger than a Strawberry. We have been enjoying Yellow Meat Texas Grown Watermellons and all kinds of Genetically Altered Foods for several Decades now . . . They are so delicious.

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Nameless 2012/09/03 13:30:50

Yes

I try not to purchase GMO foods and want to know if they are.

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ed 2012/09/02 23:32:25

Yes

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I will do my best not to buy them

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ehrhornp 2012/09/02 23:22:44

Yes

But I don't think it is that big of a deal.

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Kern to ehrhornp 2012/09/02 23:43:10

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That's what they said about DDT.

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ehrhornp to Kern 2012/09/02 23:48:04

Food has been genetically modified from day 1. What is the real difference between what they are doing now and what they did in the past?

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Kern to ehrhornp 2012/09/03 03:10:02

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From day one? Really. What science fiction book are you talking about?

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ehrhornp to Kern 2012/09/03 06:38:47

http://americanradioworks.pub...

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Kern to ehrhornp 2012/09/03 15:25:51

I guess it is the same; mixing a plant with a plant of the same species is genetically modifying them. It is the same as taking proteins from an animal and infusing it into a plant is the exact same thing.

It's not the same. But hey, have at it. When it gives you cancer or some other decease, you won't mind. Good for you.

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ehrhornp to Kern 2012/09/03 15:50:11

When I see studies that indicate that this food promotes cancer, then I will be concerned. But without this will this planet be able to feed itself? I doubt it. Cancer vs. starvation. Not much of a choice is it?

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Kern to ehrhornp 2012/09/03 16:35:29

You're dieing either way I guess.

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Jana to ehrhornp 2013/03/19 18:57:42

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You seriously need to read up on GMOs. Their longterm side affects include inflamed bowels, leads to cancer. Get on the site Occupy Monsanto and learn something.

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ehrhornp to Jana 2013/03/19 23:07:24

Trouble is how much of that is real and how much is propaganda? Monsanto would argue that their food does not do this. The studies that claim this are flawed. I am not an expert nor do I have the time to actually do some unbiased research to tell.

By the way I favor labeling GMO foods as I believe information is important. But according to a speaker we had, only a few foods are subject to GMOs. Corn, Soy Beans, and I believe there was one or two others.

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Roger47 to ehrhornp 2012/09/03 03:38:14

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They did not take bacteria DNA and insert it into the plants we eat in the past. There is a huge difference between GMO and cross breeding.

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Jana to ehrhornp 2013/03/19 18:55:10

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From day one huh? Well you are wrong there buddy...if you did some reading, you would find that, no, we have not been eating GMOs for decades, it is fairly newer as of around ten to fifteen years ago. Your Gramma didn't serve GMOs. And probably not even your mom. But now it's in 80% percent of our food we eat everyday. And the side effects are longterm and irreversible. What will you want to feed your family?

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ehrhornp to Jana 2013/03/19 23:10:26

GMO is relatively new but man kind has been selective breading their foods for centuries. Ever see a picture of the first corn on the cob? Very different from today's corn.

I stated elsewhere that GMO foods are few. specifically corn, soybeans, and maybe a few others. Most foods are not GMOd.

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Jana to Kern 2013/03/19 18:49:37

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They said Agent Orange was safe too but my brother almost died over forty years after exposure.

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Kern to Jana 2013/03/19 18:53:14

Good point. The cigarette industry spent billions of dollars telling us that smoking was good for us. Don't you just love the people the that take a corporation's word for it without question?

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wtxwoman 2012/09/02 19:42:23

Yes

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People have food allergys to some of the things being put into other foods.

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Horace 2012/09/02 19:30:00

Yes

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I don't see anything wrong with giving people the option, if they don't have a problem with genetically modified food, great, but people should know what thy are buying before they buy it.

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Proggy 2012/09/02 19:09:54

Yes

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You should know exactly what you're getting!

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Magnus ☮ RP ☮ 2012 ☮ 2012/09/02 19:03:20

Yes

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Actually, they should be banned. I'd settle for the labels...

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twocrows 2012/09/02 19:03:03

Yes

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of course. knowledge and choice are Good Things.

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Rusty Shackleford 2012/09/02 18:56:36

Yes

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As many of you know, I am a big free market capitalist.

I am not in favor of more government regulation, but I am in favor of truth in advertising.

Truth in advertising is good for capitalism.

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Kurbdog 2012/09/02 18:50:56

Yes

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