Quote:No I didn't know that, que your handy "the more you know" thing

 

What I'm talking about is the pesticides they put in our food, I'm not sure about across the pond but everything is shipped cross country it seems like so they load our food up with pesticides, freeze and ship it all over the country.

 

I heard someone say why does the "wealthiest" nation on the planet with the "most advanced medical equipment" have the highest rate of cancer, diabetes, SIDS, and other various forms of disease? It really is a scary thing to think about. I say this as me and wife are about to go out and celebrate our anniversary at a restaurant where who knows what is in the food, but oh well, something to think about or not.

GMO's don't have pesticides. They're specifically engineered to withstand diseases and parasites without the use of pesticides. There are certainly drawbacks to using GMO's and their effect on human health is far from full understood but it's certainly not from the use of pesticides.

 

And like it or not, GMO's could very well save billions of lives. The world as it is developing now is headed for a massive overcrowding problem and crop yields right now are just barely keeping pace with demand. GMO's, with their massively improved crop yields and ability to grow in places that used to considered effectively barren, look to be able to help us keep pace and we might even reach a point where we're ahead of demand.

 

As for your last point, just remember the golden rule of statistics; correlation does not imply causation.

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