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I think of the GMO/pesticide/herbicide approach like smoking. You may use it for years without issue, but then wake up one day and find yourself unable to eat w
by zackmorris 4y ago
I think of the GMO/pesticide/herbicide approach like smoking. You may use it for years without issue, but then wake up one day and find yourself unable to eat whole wheat like I did.
The gluten-free movement, the autoimmune diseases we're seeing, the continuing rise of neurological disorders like ADHD and autism.. they're caused by factory farming. The literature may not have reached consensus on that yet, but the trends are obvious and unmistakable now.
My peer group called this out back in the 90s before it went big, but nobody ever listens to us because 1) I was a teenager and 2) the people I listen to and admire are all poor academics. There was profit to be made!
It took 3 years, but I was finally able to get my digestive troubles into remission. I believe what happened is that my enteric nervous system got disrupted with neuropathy when I went through profound burnout in 2019. So the valves in my digestive system were opening and closing at the wrong times and I developed all kinds of food sensitivities. The cure is to take a B complex every day, specifically B1 (thiamine) and saturated fat to heal the nerves, so bacon and eggs is one of the best things I've found. I take a "stress" B complex that's less concentrated so I can have it every day. I've regained the ability to eat nightshades, but wheat/legumes/milk/nuts are still a problem.
Does anyone know of any startups working to isolate and remove the GMO contamination from crops? There would be considerable money in bringing back pre-GMO crop varieties, since such a large percentage of the population can't eat what's on store shelves now. If we do, our digestion shuts down, we get severe inflammation, we get metabolic syndrome, we get diabetes, our quality of life diminishes to effectively nothing.. you see what I'm saying. They could call the crops heirloom or organic and charge twice as much and I and millions of other people would gladly buy them.
Edit: since science is letting the population down at a level approaching conspiracy, I've embraced magical thinking in my own life. I find that holistic models simply perform better. I learned about the neuropathy issue here (no affiliation):
https://www.youtube.com/c/WholeBodyHealingwithJen https://www.youtube.com/c/WholeBodyHealingwithJen
- adamgordonbell 4y agoWhat makes GMOs problematic?
- soperj 4y agoThey're mostly modified so that they can handle herbicides.
- adamgordonbell 4y agoI'm not sure why something handling herbicides makes it problematic for eating? Is it because it will then have more herbicides on it or because you feel the incentives behind GMO are off or is their some more immediate problem?
- soperj 4y agoIt's more than just food for eating. For instance, in BC they plant GMO round up ready pine, and then spray clear cuts and forest fire areas with round up, so that they can plant mono-culture pine stands. This has caused massive forest fire issues which also results flooding issues, along with biodiversity issues.
- asdff 4y agoSeems like they would have done that anyhow without the GMO pine...
- algoatecorn 4y agoBut that's only because the originators of the first GMO seeds had to be firms with plenty of capital and R&D capacity ie. chemical companies. They also had the double revenue stream of seeds + herbicide. Herbicide resistance is also the most attractive seed trait in terms of farmer adoption. Now, the cost of generating GMO seeds is much lower. We have more firms creating GMO with traits beyond herbicide resistance. These genotypes will have value for processors, retailers, and consumers. Be careful to not tarnish the reputation of GMO seeds before we realize their true potential.
- zackmorris 4y agoSeveral things, mainly that they introduce genes which create compounds our bodies have never eaten, which increases the likelihood of developing food sensitivities and autoimmune disorders. But the big thing is that they use glyphosate to dry crops like wheat and oats before harvest, which increases the odds of eating a high dose of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desiccants_(glyphosate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi... Basically what's going on is that as they play with crops to make them more resistant to pests, the husks become more and more toxic to humans and at the very least our gut flora. Which is why I believe that the increased quantity of whole wheat and oatmeal I ate for my weight training over a 20 year period damaged my digestive system. Now there were other causes grant you, like I'm no teetotaler, but the way in which my body started collapsing in 2018 opened my eyes to how things go wrong fast once the immune system is triggered.