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your argument seems to be "chemicals are numerous & complicated, therefore all new complex chemicals are okay" the compounds that've been in strawberries for t
by jakelarkin 9y ago
your argument seems to be "chemicals are numerous & complicated, therefore all new complex chemicals are okay"
the compounds that've been in strawberries for thousands of years are somewhat known items and lower risk than ones invented yesterday or even 20 years ago in a Dupont/Monsanto laboratory. The issue is that we have a business and political system that is highly incentivized to start adding contrived and novel substances to the environment at a massive scale and speed never before seen in nature. In recent times it's all to easy to introduce excess carcinogens and endocrine-disruptors into most homes or kill off large number worlds of honeybees. The effects merit careful consideration and regulation.