Tuesday, October 16. 2012
To GMO or not GMO? Puzzling Contradictions
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GMO will only benefit all those Food Companies. The farmers should be the real beneficiaries. There is nothing wrong with our food. The government should spend in creating a system in which farmers will be subsidized and encourage farming to young people.
Farm subsidies mean, far too often, "paying farmers to destroy perfectly good crops to keep the prices up". It is also essentially impossible to draw a distinction between "the food companies" and "farmers"; aside from many farms being corporate-owned, those companies are the major market for most crops.
And actually, there are problems with some of our crops. Bananas, for instance, at least the kind the Northern Hemisphere eats, need GM protections from diseases—because, long before we could modify genes directly, we modified them by breeding. And we overbred our bananas until a single blight could drive them extinct; they make the House of Hapsburg look like the picture of hybrid vigor.
And actually, there are problems with some of our crops. Bananas, for instance, at least the kind the Northern Hemisphere eats, need GM protections from diseases—because, long before we could modify genes directly, we modified them by breeding. And we overbred our bananas until a single blight could drive them extinct; they make the House of Hapsburg look like the picture of hybrid vigor.
The desire to know about more the foods we're eating still exists despite the disappointing failure of the GMO labeling mandate of Proposition 37. If you want to avoid GMOs in your food, there are still alternatives, including buying organic, as any product that carries the USDA organic seal cannot contain GMOs. In addition, be sure to pay attention to the little stickers on your grocery store produce. The numbers on these sticker indicate how the produce was farmed: 4 digits = conventionally farmed, likely subjected to herbicides and/or pesticides; 5 digits, beginning with 9 = organic certified, no GMOs, pesticides, or herbicides; 5 digits, beginning with 8 = conventionally farmed and GMO, almost certainly subjected to herbicides and/or pesticides. Stay healthy!
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