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Do you have something I could read for that claim regarding toxicity? I'm not super up on the debate surrounding GMOs, but I have a few friends who have scienti

Do you have something I could read for that claim regarding toxicity? I'm not super up on the debate surrounding GMOs, but I have a few friends who have scientific backgrounds and are interested, and I've never heard anything quite like what you're saying.

nostrebored 11y ago
(it doesn't exist, or appeals to the "fact" that toxicity is so minor that we can't see it yet)
ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Probably my favorite book is "Death by Food Pyramid". I can't remember if she went into this particular topic though. I don't know of any definative proof, which I think is what makes issues like this so dangerous. Scientific proof is a high bar when dealing with something this complex, pit that against powerful food lobbies and truths can stay buried for a long time. For me, it's been an observation of many cues, then making a personal decision about how I eat from that. One interesting place to start is corn: Most corn that you eat isn't the sweet corn you buy in the store and cook on the grill. It is very hard and must be broken down with lye before being eaten.
- hyperpape 11y ago
  There's a lot of ground between definitive proof and "personal observation of many cues". Put it this way: are there any scientific reasons, however nebulous or merely suggestive, to suspect that this is the case?
  - ChrisDutrow 11y ago
    Yeah, if you google it, a lot of stuff comes up. I'm sure if you google "GMO's are not toxic" you'll find a lot of stuff supporting that claim too. My advice would be to start paying attention to nutrition in general, then over time you can draw your own, educated conclusions. Unfortunately I don't think is a topic that you will be able to find a black-and-white answer to.
  - brianwawok 11y ago
    How about looking at it from the flip side. Things you put in your body can have a pretty massive effect on you. I would rather err on the side of paying $.05 too much for the corn that people have been eating for 50 years over the newest GMO strain. You only get one body. I do not want to beta test things in my body if I don't have to.
    - hyperpape 11y ago
      This might be right, but it's irrelevant to the thread you're in, which is about whether the claim about subtle toxicity is something we should believe.

nostrebored 11y ago

(it doesn't exist, or appeals to the "fact" that toxicity is so minor that we can't see it yet)

ChrisDutrow 11y ago

Probably my favorite book is "Death by Food Pyramid". I can't remember if she went into this particular topic though. I don't know of any definative proof, which I think is what makes issues like this so dangerous. Scientific proof is a high bar when dealing with something this complex, pit that against powerful food lobbies and truths can stay buried for a long time. For me, it's been an observation of many cues, then making a personal decision about how I eat from that. One interesting place to start is corn: Most corn that you eat isn't the sweet corn you buy in the store and cook on the grill. It is very hard and must be broken down with lye before being eaten.

hyperpape 11y ago
There's a lot of ground between definitive proof and "personal observation of many cues". Put it this way: are there any scientific reasons, however nebulous or merely suggestive, to suspect that this is the case?
- ChrisDutrow 11y ago
  Yeah, if you google it, a lot of stuff comes up. I'm sure if you google "GMO's are not toxic" you'll find a lot of stuff supporting that claim too. My advice would be to start paying attention to nutrition in general, then over time you can draw your own, educated conclusions. Unfortunately I don't think is a topic that you will be able to find a black-and-white answer to.
- brianwawok 11y ago
  How about looking at it from the flip side. Things you put in your body can have a pretty massive effect on you. I would rather err on the side of paying $.05 too much for the corn that people have been eating for 50 years over the newest GMO strain. You only get one body. I do not want to beta test things in my body if I don't have to.
  - hyperpape 11y ago
    This might be right, but it's irrelevant to the thread you're in, which is about whether the claim about subtle toxicity is something we should believe.