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[Kekephee]

I have all these hippie dippie facebook friends who post all this anti GMO shit that's like, BAN them ALL, IMMEDIATELY cut research, make it GO AWAY we will all live with our TRENDY PALEO DIET and I'm like, God I wish your heart wasn't in the right place right now so I could just defriend you

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Where is your info that GMO food is A okay?

It's already been given. Scroll up. Where's yours? The only studies stating they're not okay have been shown frauds.

[Faerie]

I'm on my phone for today or I'd do better. Btw there is tons of legitimate evidence suggesting that caramel color chemical is seriously cancerous. Trusting something because it seems safe is silly.

[Glenzig]

Here is a perfect example of what I was talking about. A report won't tell you GMO foods are perfectly fine. But also won't tell you why they aren't. This is why people think its ok. Or ok enough I guess.
http://m.ibtimes.com/gmo-health-risk...e-says-1161099

[Ahldagor]

no one bringing up the usage of insecticides, poor soil maintenance, and subsidies as bigger reasons for the overall usage of gmo crops. y'all need to read more. problem started during the dust bowl. now we have crops that will grow in shitty soil with shitty fertilizers that came about from excess gun powder after ww2.

[Kekephee]

Originally Posted by Faerie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm on my phone for today or I'd do better. Btw there is tons of legitimate evidence suggesting that caramel color chemical is seriously cancerous. Trusting something because it seems safe is silly.

Distrusting something because it involves chemistry is ridiculous.

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates, in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization.

Caramel color can be obtained through NUMEROUS ingredients and a variety of methods. Caramel color from a natural sugar is beyond harmless. Blanket statements implying something as potentially simple and natural as caramel color, rather than a specific variant/method (eg: caramel color obtained through caramelization of chemical sweeteners) is an oversimplification and is utterly meaningless.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Remember the Irish potato famine? GMOs would have been nice, wouldn't they?

That's flawed reasoning. GMOs are plentiful today and millions in America starve every day. They are never going to give food away. GMOs don't curb starvation. Only way to get rid of starvation is to get rid of greed.

[Faerie]

Omg Keke you're being a fef I wish I were at a keyboard right now. Keep googling about the caramel color.

[Ahldagor]

the potato famine was also coordinated with british and irish wealthy in order to cull the poor. was much better for them to export what food was being grown, financially speaking, than to sell it in the country. it was an aspect of centuries of genocide

[Kekephee]

Nobody in America is starving because THE LOCUST PLAGUE ATE THE CROPS, PAW. They're starving because corporate capitalism is psychotic and someone has to lose for someone else to win. This is a whole different thread- that I'm sure as shit not going to make on this message board- but if our economic hoodly hoodly hoo wasn't so fucked up we not only wouldn't have starvation in America, we could provide food for a ridiculous portion of the rest of the world, easily. That is, IF scientists were allowed to do their jobs and use research to find ways to create crops that were easy to grow and had large yields... without a bunch of people from Portland protesting and calling for boycotts because some assclown put it in their heads that anything that has ever been touched by human hands is bad