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Are you saying that the pressures from people like this aren't causing California counties to ban GMOs? I think it's a great thing that someone who has been foc
by dizzystar 14y ago
Are you saying that the pressures from people like this aren't causing California counties to ban GMOs? I think it's a great thing that someone who has been focusing on this stuff for 16 years is finally coming to terms with the consequences of his writings and actions. The fact that one person turned around is a good sign, IMO.
Yes, much ink has been spilled about the dangers of GM soy and soy in general. The issue that the article suggests is that people not only form opinions on food based off of no evidence, but even go so far as to expound their influence in matters that are not trivial. It's easy for Americans to pass up food, but a kid who is starving in Africa and eating Cow dung isn't given this option, and starving these children based on belief and no science is just morally wrong.
I'm looking up some of those articles as well. The one point of interest, for those who are only looking at the titles and seeing "danger," this is from the abstract from Burns, J.M.:
The results of the 13-week subchronic feeding study show that rats fed diets containing corn
event MON 863 grain responded similarly to rats fed diets containing the nontransgenic
control LH82 x A634 grain and diets containing grain from reference control nontransgenic
commercial corn varieties. There were no test article-related changes based on the
evaluation of survival, clinical signs, body weights, body weight changes, food consumption,
clinical pathology, organ weights, and macroscopic and microscopic pathology.
So, thank you for showing some balance in your suggested readings. This stuff is really complicated and I hope people like you lead the charge in the future of all of the world's food choices. Unfortunately, I don't think this will happen and we'll be fed BS by make-believers and lawyers.