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I'm not a fan of the term "real food" that Greenpeace uses. Your body can get nutrition from anything in a compatible form. It doesn't matter if it's been engin

I'm not a fan of the term "real food" that Greenpeace uses. Your body can get nutrition from anything in a compatible form. It doesn't matter if it's been engineered, crawls on tree back, created in a science kit - if it's compatible, your body will absorb it. > “The only guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet. Providing people with real food based on ecological agriculture not only addresses malnutrition, but is also a scaleable solution to adapt to climate change.

Florin_Andrei 10y ago
"real food", "natural", etc - these are language signs that pseudo-knowledge is creeping into the issue.
- dmritard96 10y ago
  I am waiting for entirely synthetic food options that will compete with photosynthesis from an energy perspective. That could be huge for space for instance.
  - mmastrac 10y ago
    Perhaps algal oil? Soylent is taking that approach
    - ricksplat 10y ago
      Do algae not rely on photosynthesis?
anotherhacker 10y ago
It's not about nutrition. It's the risk that hidden risks that GMOs engender. E.g. Unknown effects upon the ecosystem. Another example: GMO Wheat contains an unnaturally high gluten content. Gluten is an irritant for everyone--some more than others. We have many people who are not really "gluten intolerant", but think they are. They are just sensitive to the unnaturally high gluten content in GMO foods.
- mikeash 10y ago
  I assume you mean certain varieties of GMO wheat have high gluten content? There's nothing about GMO itself that would cause that, it's a matter of what they decide to change.
- AngrySkillzz 10y ago
  There is no commercially grown GMO wheat. I have no idea where you heard this nonsense. And within different non-modified wheat varieties, gluten content varies greatly. Ex. Hard, red winter wheat has more gluten and is often used as bread flour. There is no incentive to breed wheat for higher gluten content anyway.
  - anotherhacker 10y ago
    You're wrong on both accounts. 1) A GMO wheat currently is used. It's called Renan. 2) Higher gluten flour is desirable for bread products such as pizza. I make my own pizza. The best pizza bread is made from high-gluten flour.
- anotherhacker 10y ago
  Correction: Artificial selection and contemporary milling processes have increased the gluten content. Not from GMO.
darpa_escapee 10y ago
This isn't necessarily true. Vitamins often need to be consumed with the foods they're found in to be absorbed properly. Fructose as an additive, fructose in squeezed juice and fructose in whole fruit are processed differently in the body. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/reduce-type-2-diabetes-risk/ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/reduce-type-2-...

Florin_Andrei 10y ago

"real food", "natural", etc - these are language signs that pseudo-knowledge is creeping into the issue.

dmritard96 10y ago
I am waiting for entirely synthetic food options that will compete with photosynthesis from an energy perspective. That could be huge for space for instance.
- mmastrac 10y ago
  Perhaps algal oil? Soylent is taking that approach
  - ricksplat 10y ago
    Do algae not rely on photosynthesis?

anotherhacker 10y ago

It's not about nutrition. It's the risk that hidden risks that GMOs engender. E.g. Unknown effects upon the ecosystem. Another example: GMO Wheat contains an unnaturally high gluten content. Gluten is an irritant for everyone--some more than others. We have many people who are not really "gluten intolerant", but think they are. They are just sensitive to the unnaturally high gluten content in GMO foods.

mikeash 10y ago
I assume you mean certain varieties of GMO wheat have high gluten content? There's nothing about GMO itself that would cause that, it's a matter of what they decide to change.
AngrySkillzz 10y ago
There is no commercially grown GMO wheat. I have no idea where you heard this nonsense. And within different non-modified wheat varieties, gluten content varies greatly. Ex. Hard, red winter wheat has more gluten and is often used as bread flour. There is no incentive to breed wheat for higher gluten content anyway.
- anotherhacker 10y ago
  You're wrong on both accounts. 1) A GMO wheat currently is used. It's called Renan. 2) Higher gluten flour is desirable for bread products such as pizza. I make my own pizza. The best pizza bread is made from high-gluten flour.
anotherhacker 10y ago
Correction: Artificial selection and contemporary milling processes have increased the gluten content. Not from GMO.

darpa_escapee 10y ago

This isn't necessarily true. Vitamins often need to be consumed with the foods they're found in to be absorbed properly. Fructose as an additive, fructose in squeezed juice and fructose in whole fruit are processed differently in the body. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/reduce-type-2-diabetes-risk/ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/reduce-type-2-...