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No, if we had our food correctly labeled, all food in your supermarket would be labeled as GMO. All of our food has been bioengineered for centuries, we were ju
by ak217 10y ago
No, if we had our food correctly labeled, all food in your supermarket would be labeled as GMO. All of our food has been bioengineered for centuries, we were just using extremely crude methods until now.
The morally indefensible position is the one that vilifies, through ignorance, a set of plant breeding techniques that have the ability to save wildlife habitat and reduce pesticide use and carbon emissions worldwide by making agriculture more efficient.
If you want to adopt a morally defensible position on this issue, may I suggest asking for labeling with estimates of water, herbicide, and acreage use of your food? Or carbon footprint estimates? Because a "correct" GMO label that actually carries any meaning will look like the methods section of a Science article.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoDrastically reduce beef consumption, and save resources, save wildlife habitat like the Amazon (I have been there. Most clearing is for beef production). Beef production creates a lot of methane which is even more damaging than CO2, per molecule produced. It takes between 4000 to 5000 gallons of water per pound of beef produced. Chicken production uses about 5% the resources of beef. Vegan is better still. I think we are in agreement on protecting the environment, but we have different strategies for doing that. Fair enough.