Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

re: Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

earthtodan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:41:43 GMT

I haven't watched "the future of food," but I'm really not alarmed by GM foods. It seems like people are setting off a huge alarm in advance of any serious problems. GM foods may not be the "natural" course of evolution, but so what? Neither is corn on the cob. Why is there a furor over GM corn, for example, when edible corn was bred by humans to begin with? It's an illustration of the silliness of the movement, IMHO.

re: Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

kschoeve — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:24:50 GMT

I'm tired of explaining the "possible" health risks to my friends and family. The best route for me is to practice by example. I also make the comment that my family is not going to be the guinea pig of the FDA or any other governmental department. How many tried and true approved FDA products have been removed? Why take the risk when organic is readily available? However, I will lodge a complaint against the cost of organics. A nice 20 (I wish) to 50 percent increase is omnipresent. Many people cannot afford organics and consider it a luxury rather than a necessity.

re: Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:49:06 GMT

Get or rent or watch the video (NetFlix) 'The Future Of Food', which clearly explains the $take$ in the GMO food fight...

re: Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

mmc88121 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:10:55 GMT

Unfortunetly most people will believe what they read in the press, which many people still assume is unbiased. The last article I read about GM foods was touting all the benefits that it could have for people. It implied that all the people who were against GM foods were "crackpots" to use a nice term. It never stated that any negative effects had been found using GM foods. Unless you eat food you grow yourself you can not be sure you are not getting GM foods. Even then you might have some problems with cross pollenation. Foods that can not reproduce themselves should not be on your table.

mmc88121

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friendly curmudgeon — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:24:10 GMT

Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods? I do! (Of course, the last time I said those two words, I got in big trouble.)

Thanks for the tips on how to scout out the Franken in our Food.

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Birdlady — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:08:01 GMT

I don't think people even understand what it is all about. Since the T.V. isn't talking about it Americans walk around like sheep just shoving down processed food after processed food, which is almost guaranteed to have GM foods in it.

Unfortunately, though people who think they are informed have been fooled by soy (which is almost all GMO). Even those "vegetarians" who yell at you for eating meat and other animal products, they sit there as they are telling you how horrible meat is, eating GMO soy. Go figure.

I have been on a no high fructose corn syrup diet for well over a year and I proud to say that it has made a huge difference. That corn syrup is GM too and people drink it down in soda everyday. [:|]

No wonder everyone is sick and getting weird diseases!

re: Do Americans Really Care About GM and Cloned Foods?

Russ Bianchi — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:52:06 GMT

Considering the FDA's track record, with almost daily announcements of BAD FOR YOU, or DEADLY, side effects from drugs the Feds sanctioned to go to market, triggering recalls, warning labels, deaths, etc., why trust them, or the for PROFIT food industry, on GMO anything?

Europe got it correct, and BANNED GMO, and American industrial food ingredient suppliers lost hundreds of millions of dollars in market share in the EU over it.

One major American petro-chemical company recently announced they were getting out of the GMO business, targeting the American food chain...maybe they know something you have not been told? Like the stuff is poison and they do not want the legal liability.

The only way to make industry, or the FDA, listen, is to vote with your wallets and protect your own health.

DEMAND your retail providers of package foods designate if the product has genetically modified anything in it!

The food and beverage industry listens to their bottom line on a balance sheet and little else.